Cristina Gutiérrez López was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1978. She graduated from the Faculty of Biology at the Complutense University of Madrid in 2003. In 2003 she started working at the Mass Spectrometry Unit of  the Complutense University of Madrid, where she currently holds a permanent position. In 2016, she completed her PhD thesis at the Department of Analytical Chemistry under the supervision of Professors Luis Polo and Antonio Santos, entitled "Taxonomic identification of wine yeasts using mass spectrometry",  and qualified with "cum laude".