Silvia has a PhD in Psychology at The New School for Social Research (New York) . She is a certified instructor of compassion at CCARE, Stanford University (California). She is the director of a program of palliative care based on mindfulness at Nirakara, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She has taught empathy, emotional regulation, and social psychology courses at The New School, CUNY, Columbia University, and at ONGs like The International Justice Project. Nowadays, she teaches mindfulness and compassion based programs for populations facing death and illness.