Alba is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Health Informatics Centre (HIC). Since joining in 2022, she has primarily focused on developing tools and guidelines for disclosure control of AI/ML outputs in TREs, working on a range of projects including GRAIMATTER: Guidelines and Resources for Artificial Intelligence Model Access from Trusted Research Environments, SACRO (Semi-Automated Checking of Research Outputs), and more recently the TREvolution project.

She completed a PhD in Metagenomics at the University of Edinburgh, looking at the source of errors for taxonomic classification and applying machine learning techniques to develop a novel method to understand genomic signatures to improve metataxonomic identification. Previously, after graduating in biotechnology, she worked for a few years in industry performing microbiology controls, before she specialised in bioinformatics. She also carried out a short project at the Science for Life Laboratory, University of Stockholm (Sweden), where she studied membrane protein domains and used phylogenetics to look at transmembrane domain rearrangement in protein evolution.