Dr. Perez is the Deputy Director General for Space Science and Technology at the Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) and a Professor at the University of the Philippines Diliman. She is also the elected president to the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Technical Commission V on Education and Outreach, serving for four years from 2022 to 2026.

Prior to her appointment at PhilSA, Dr. Perez has led various programs on satellite development in the Philippines as well as other projects that utilized satellite and remotely sensed data for environmental applications and climate studies.

Dr. Perez is a recipient of the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) Outstanding Young Scientists (OYS) for 2021, The Outstanding Women in the Nation's Service (TOWNS) Award (2019), and is the first Filipino woman to receive the ASEAN-US Science Prize for Women (2018).

She was a postdoctoral fellow at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (2010-2011). She is a graduate of the National Institute of Physics at the University of the Philippines Diliman, from which she received Bachelor of Science in Applied Physics (2003), Master of Science (2005), and Doctor of Philosophy in Physics (2009).

Her research interests include Earth observation satellite product development, drought monitoring and forecasting, forest change detection, land cover/land use change, other satellite remote sensing applications for the environment, seasonal and climate prediction, climate change and variability, complex systems, and interdisciplinary applications of Physics.