Carmen Fuentes Rosales graduated in Biomedicine from the Universidad de Sevilla (Spain). Afterwards she specialized in Bioinformatics with an MSc from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain). During her MSc studies, she attended an intensive course in Web Development at the coding school IronHack.

She joined the IDIAP Jordi Gol as a programmer analyst, where she worked with clinical data and databases during 8 months. In December 2018, she joined IrsiCaixa as a Full Stack Web Developer in the Microbial Genomics Lab, in order to contribute to the development of bioinformatics tools to study the microbiome and its relation with VIH infection.