Carmen Bedia studied Pharmacy at the University of Barcelona (Spain) and obtained her Ph.D. in 2007 in the field of sphingolipid metabolism, in the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC, Barcelona). She moved to the French Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM, Toulouse, France) as a postdoctoral researcher where she focused on cell biology of sphingolipid metabolism in the development of melanoma malignancy. After her return to Barcelona in 2010 to the CSIC, she has been working as postdoctoral researcher on medicinal chemistry of sphingolipids and she expanded her knowledge about lipidomics in biological samples using LC-MS. Since 2013 she works in the Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA-CSIC) in the frame of an ERC awarded project in which she uses chemometric techniques to extract meaningful information from LC-MS and Mass Spectrometry imaging datasets, in order to investigate the effects of environmental pollutants on human and plant cells.