Patri­cia grad­u­ated as an indus­trial and elec­tri­cal engi­neer in 2012 from Pon­ti­f­i­cia Uni­ver­si­dad Católica de Chile (PUC). Dur­ing her under­grad­u­ate stud­ies she worked as a Lin­ear Alge­bra teach­ing assis­tant for three years, per­formed research in Dr. Daniel Kammen’s Renew­able and Appro­pri­ate Energy Lab­o­ra­tory (RAEL) at UC Berke­ley work­ing on the SWITCH model for the US. She also worked (funded by CONICYT) on solar energy research at the Uni­ver­sity of Ari­zona (under­grad the­sis). Once she grad­u­ated she worked as a Lin­ear Alge­bra lec­turer at PUC. Later on, for over a year and a half she worked as a research assis­tant at UC Berke­ley and at the Nat­ural Resources Defense Coun­cil (per­form­ing SWITCH-​​Chile research). Her top­ics of inter­est are how to highly inte­grate renew­able energy in the grid, long-​​term power sys­tem plan­ning, sto­chas­tic load dis­patch mod­els, energy pol­icy, and energy economics.