Carola completed her BSc in Biochemistry at Universidad Austral de Chile and MSc in Neuroscience from Universidad de Valparaiso, studying effect of odorants on the expression of c-fos in zebrafish. She did her MSc and PhD in Physiological Sciences at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Carola studied involvement of connexin 43 and pannexin 1 hemichannels of gilal cells in the neuroinflammatory response induced by glucocorticoid maternal. She was awarded a grant from the Universidad Católica Accelerator Program, to study the use of selective inhibitors of hemichannels formed by connexins to treat epilepsy. These lead to a Patent application. Carola then moved to Colorado State University, where she worked on the modulation of anestrus in sheep by hypothalamic estrogen receptors. In 2017 Carola started her Postdoc in Engel lab at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute.