After high school, Lina obtained her first lab work experience in Mexico at the Research center ECOSUR. She then decided to study Applied Biology at the Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg (Germany) and Molecular Biology at the University of Dundee (UK). She obtained a double degree with Honors. Lina performed her Ph.D. studies at the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit in Dundee under Gopal Sapkota. Her dissertation focused on deubiquitylating enzymes regulating the TGF-beta and BMP signaling pathways. Following her Ph.D. studies, Lina received an EMBO fellowship for her postdoctoral research in the lab of Ivan Dikic to work on linear ubiquitylation and autophagy. After her postdoctoral work, she joined the Frankfurt Cancer Institute as a cellular and biochemical analysis platform staff scientist. Lina is now a team leader of the Immune Signaling program, which aims to decipher TBK1-mediated signaling in different pathologies.