Ph.D. at University of Barcelona (UB, cum laude and European special award), postgraduate Studies in Civil Catalan Law (UB). Advanced Studies Diploma in Civil Law (UB), Master in Civil Compared Law (Unicam, Italy). Senior Lecturer of Civil Law, Open University of Catalonia (UOC), Vice-director of School of Labor Law of University of Lleida (EURL), teaching partner at Universidad de Gerona and Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña.

Member of the Spanish Delegation at The United Nations, UNCITRAL WG III (Online Dispute Resolution). Member of the NCTDR, ACR, IBA, DIGIT and of ILCE Advisory Commitee. Lawyer (ICAB), mediator (AEPJMA, FMA) and arbitrator at the Tribunal Arbitral de Barcelona (TAB) and the Madrid Court of Arbitration (CAM). She was deputy magistrate in the Court of Appeal in Barcelona, professor of civil procedure at the Bar Association of Barcelona and practitioner for over fourteen years. During that time she developed the first software product addressed to Spanish practitioners (Actionis) certified and recommended by the General Council of the Spanish Judiciary.

Vilalta has published a number of books in the area of her specialization (civil, commercial, procedural and comparative law, mediation, arbitration, ADR, ODRs and impact of electronic commerce). Her most recent monographic is Electronic Mediation and Arbitration, Thomson Reuters, 2013.

Her expertise in alternative dispute resolution (ADR / ODRs) has led her to coordinate and to lead many diverse thesis and research projects focused on mediation, arbitration, ADR and ODR. Her most recent project, eLearnCourt, is a digital educational platform for the training of online mediators and arbitrators and for the implementation of online negotiation, mediation, conciliation and arbitration clinics.