After her graduation as a MD in Alcalá de Henares (1986), África González completed her residency training in Immunology (MIR), in 1991 at Puerta de Hierro Hospital in Madrid, presenting her PhD defense in the University of Alcalá (May 1991). She started a 4 years postdoctoral stay at the Molecular Biology Center (MRC), Cambridge (UK) directed by Dr. César Milstein (Nobel Price for the co-development of the technique to obtain monoclonal antibodies out of immortal cells).

In 1996 Dr. África González-Fernández joined the University of Vigo, building up the first Immunology Area in Galicia. From 2009 to 2019 she has been Director of the Biomedical Research Centre (CINBIO), a “Singular Research Centre in Galicia (2016-2019)”. Currently, Prof. África González is Full Professor of Immunology, at the University of Vigo.

She is also co-founder of the spin-off NanoImmunoTech (NIT), a company specialized in the synthesis and functionalization of nanoparticles and their use in biosensing. This innovative entrepreneurship led her to the final stage of the “EU Prize for Women Innovators 2017”. From 2016 to 2020, she has been President of the Spanish Society for Immunology.