Manet is a biologist from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and has a master’s degree in Marine Ecology from the Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada (CICESE). Currently, she is doing her PhD in Coastal Oceanography at the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC). She is a member of the Astrobiology Lab at the Institute of Astronomy of UNAM. 

She completed a research stay at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). She participated in the Expedition 385 of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) to the Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California, to study the sediments and the microbes of the seafloor.

She got a diploma in Science Communication from CICESE and has collaborated in many outreach projects during her scientific career. She is also a member of the Mexican Astrobiology Society (SOMA). 

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