Carmen Imbernón holds a degree in architecture from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid. In addition to working in her own studio, she collaborated in several offices, such as Tuñón, Moreno Mansilla & Soto or Junquera-Pérez Pita.
She has been a professor of History of Architecture at the European University of Madrid between 2005 and 2020 where she taught History of the 20th and 21st Centuries, and History II (16th-19th century).
She runs EUROPAN Spain, the European competition for young architects, an organisation of which she is secretary general since 1999.