Marisa Madrid was born in Torre-Pacheco on April 29, 1978. Her undergraduate studies were done in Biology, and she got her degree from the University of Murcia in 2001. She obtained a European PhD degree in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology by the University of Murcia in 2007, which was possible thanks to a FPU Fellowship from the Spanish Government.

From 2008 to 2011, she served as postdoc in Iain Hagan's lab at the Paterson Institute for Cancer Research in Manchester (UK) with the support of an EMBO long-term postdoctoral fellowship.

She joined the Yeast Physiology group at the University of Murcia in 2011 as recipient of a Juan de la Cierva fellowship.