Alejandra was appointed Lecturer in Sustainable Heritage at the UCL  Institute for Sustainable Heritage in September 2017, where she is Assistant Course Director of the MSc Sustainable Heritage.

Alejandra has worked in the field of architecture for over 17 years, both in academia and in industry. She has spent 9 of these years in industry working for structural engineering and architectural firms in London and Madrid, such as Alan Baxter and Associates, Ecosistema Urbano and Arup. She has design experience in state-of-the-art new construction, as well as in conservation of historic landmarks. 

Alejandra has also worked in international development, collaborating with built environment and engineering charities, such as Engineers Without Borders and Architecture Sans Frontieres. In 2016 she spent an extended period in Nepal, working on the post-earthquake recovery of the Kathmandu Valley.

In academia Alejandra has worked with Professor Santiago Huerta on the mechanics of masonry structures at the School of Architecture of Madrid and in 2010 she obtained an EPSRC scholarship to do a PhD at Oxford Unviersity across Engineering Science and Archaeology, studying masonry vaulted structures in seismic areas.

Alejandra then spent two years as Stipendiary Lecturer in Engineering Science at Oxford University and in March 2017 she joined UCL as research associate in EPICentre, part of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering.