Gabriela Molinar studied electrical engineering and information technology in Venezuela. She received her doctorate in 2020 from the Institute for Information Processing Technology (ITIV) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and now works in the energy sector at the transmission system operator TenneT TSO GmbH in Bayreuth.

She received the 2022 Ecology Award of the Viktor & Sigrid Dulger Foundation for her work "Machine Learning Tool for Transmission Capacity Forecasting of Overhead Lines based on Distributed Weather Data", which makes an important contribution to power load forecasting using artificial intelligence as an optimisation method for grid operation and to support the energy transition in Germany.