M. Belén Hinojosa holds a degree in Biology (itinerary: Management of Spaces Natural) by the University of Jaén. She began his research career in the group "Forest Ecology and Dynamics of Landscape "of the same university, which was incorporated through a scholarship of Collaboration and subsequently a fellowship of Teacher Training and Investigator. In 2006 she obtained a doctorate from the University of Jaén with her thesis titled: Assessment of soil health through indicators of biogeochemical functionality and Structure of the microbial community. Application to monitor the restoration of Soil of the Guadiamar basin after the Aznalcóllar By J.A. Carreira and R. García-Ruiz). Later she began his postdoctoral phase with the help of the Ministry of Education and Science at the Scotish Crop Research Institute (Plant and soil group Interactions with B.S. Griffiths and T.J. Daniell), where she worked on the study of Resistance and resilience of the microbial community of agricultural soils, compared to Various types of stress. Two years later she was incorporated with a contract Juan de la Cierva at the Experimental Station of Zaidín-CISC (with M.J. Delgado), investigating On the effect of drought on soil-plant interactions (Phaseolus-Rizobium).

The main objective of his research is to understand the biogeochemistry and ecology of Soil microbial community in order to evaluate and And optimize both the productivity of ecosystems and their sustainability.