She was five and a half years old when was sent to a boarding school in Switzerland. She hated her father for sending her away after her mother died but he still thinks that she needs a man to dominate her so that she stops acting out. She holds a Master's degree in Science in Nuclear Engineering and a Doctor of Philosophy in Nuclear Engineering. She was admited to Columtreal University as a postdoctoral researcher a position that would allow her to continue her research and develop her career without some of the other pressures of being a working scientist back in her country. With Argentina being unstable politically and facing no need to import natural uranium, since it has some 25,000 tons of its own, it 's nuclear activities are closely monitored by IAEA cameras and officials. Mary Christmas Jones was constantly suspected of wanting to build a nuclear device and of having close relations with the national Intelligence System and was accused of surveillance of foreign embassies so she left her home country to “work” unbothered in a more uncensored environment like the city of Hathian.