Lilia is a postdoctoral associate at the University of Calgary. Her recent research has been centered in electricity; interconnectors, market power and infrastructure in the electricity market, and electric vehicles and chargers. She is also interested in the environmental effect of electricity, and accounting for its negative externalities. 

Lilia is deeply interested in understanding a province like Alberta, heavily fossil fuel intertwined. She is now trying to understand the link between historical women participation in the fossil fuel sector and nowadays gender and environmental practices.

Lilia earned her PhD in Economics from the University of Sussex, her MSc degree from UNAM, and undergrad from ITESM, both universities based in Mexico.

She has been a research assistant at the University of Sussex, London School of Economics, FLACSO Mexico, and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean UN. Lilia has also taught at undergraduate and master level.

Lilia is a strong advocate of sustainable transportation, in particular biking. Regardless of her non-cold weather origins, she has learned to bike through the UK wind/rain and the Calgarian icy roads (sometimes not successfully).