Julieta is originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and grew up in Poughkeepsie, New York. She arrived at UNC Chapel Hill in January 2020 after spending 2 years as a Pappalardo Fellow at MIT, working with Lindley Winslow and Joe Formaggio. She completed her PhD as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow in Jason Detwiler’s group at the University of Washington, where she studied neutrinoless double-beta decay with the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, and received her BS in physics and BA in mathematics from University of Rochester.