Ana Grande holds a degree and a doctorate (1998) in Biological Sciences from the University of Santiago de Compostela. In November 2004 she joined the UMA with a Ramón y Cajal contract and in January 2010 she obtained a doctoral teaching contract. Since December 2010 she is Professor of Genetics at the Department of Cell Biology, Genetics and Physiology at the University of Málaga (UMA). Her scientific career has been completed with several predoctoral stays from 1995 to 1998 in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Lund (Sweden) under the supervision of Dr. Einar Everitt; And postdoctoral fellows in 1999-2003 at the Molecular Medicine and Gene Therapy Unit of the Department of Medicine, University of Manchester (United Kingdom), under the supervision of Drs. Pedro R. Lowenstein and Esteban Domingo, and in 2003-2005 at the Severo Ochoa Molecular Biology Center with Dr. Esteban Domingo. She has recently held brief stays of 3-5 months at the Institut des Sciences du Vegetal, CNRS (France) with Dr. Bruno Gronenborn and at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Plants (UPV-CSIC) with Dr. Santiago Elena.

The evolution of quasispecies of RNA viruses and single stranded DNA and the mechanisms that introduce genetic variability into the viral genome.