In 1971, she accepted a position at the National University of Tucumán, and later moved to Venezuela with her husband. She subsequently joined the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Central University of Venezuela, where she later became head of the Center for Science Studies at the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research from 1992 to 2010. During this period, she received the 2006 National Prize for Science of Venezuela and the Oscar Varsavsky Prize to the scientific trajectory in the field of Science, Technology and Society Studies. Under her direction, she founded the postgraduate program in Social Studies of Science. In 2017, she became the first Latin American researcher to be awarded the John Desmond Bernal Prize of the Society of Social Studies of Science.
