Alba Abia holds a degree in Biological Systems Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and a master’s degree in project management from La Salle-Universitat Ramon Llull (La Salle-URL). After five years as a project manager for start-ups, she specialised in innovation at the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC) as EU Project Innovation Manager, where she has since managed exploitation, helping researchers to maximise the potential of their ideas and the impact of their results.