Diana Ruiz studied for an MPhil in Electrical engineering at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Mexico City before going on to complete a PhD in thermoelectric ceramics at the University of Manchester. After finishing her PhD, she worked as a research associate in the School of Materials at the University of Manchester as part of the MAnufacture of Safe and Sustainable Volatile Element functional materials (MASSIVE) project. She then joined Durham University as an Experimental Officer in Electron Microscopy. More recently, Dr Ruiz returned to Manchester University to work as Electron Optics experimental officer in the SIMFUEL and Alpha-Active Material Manufacturing and Characterisation Facility, located in the Henry Royce Hub Building at the University of Manchester.