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- Associate Lecturer (Teaching)
- Pharma & Bio Chemistry
- UCL School of Pharmacy
- Faculty of Life Sciences
I was born in Seville, Spain, and I always saw myself
participating in the process of helping sick people getting recovered or at
least feeling much better, that's why I studied Pharmacy in my hometown. I
decided later to start my PhD in order to be in the front line of the latest
scientific advances. After I got my certificate I wanted to experience what it
is working in more international labs and that is why I decided to accept a
two-years postdoc offer at the Karolinska Institute, where I had my first
experience working in my second language. Extremely rich and open-minding
experience where I learnt and enjoyed the fact of being surrounded by other
cultures and awesome researchers and even better people. Nevertheless, I
thought coming to London could be even more interesting both professionally and
personally and I joined as Research associate at King's College London, where I
gave my first lecture to Dentistry students. That experience was very
successful and I decided I wanted to propagate scientific knowledge to students
avid of them. That's why I accepted this position as Teaching Fellow at the
School of Pharmacy where everything started, but with different location, a bit
more than 10 years ago. I will have the chance of transferring my passion about
Science to students who remind me a lot the person I was. Luckily I can continue
developing my research in trying to find a better vaccine against Tuberculosis
disease in collaboration with my former institution.
I got my BSc in Pharmacy at the
University of Seville (Spain) in 2007. I started my PhD in the Institute of
Biomedicine of Seville in 2008 where I studied the consequences of the mismatch
in minor histocompatibility antigens after allogeneic stem-cell transplantation.
After I got my PhD certificate in 2013, I joined the lab of Dr Susanne
Gabrielsson at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm (Sweden) as postdoc where I
was studying the use of exosomes as cancer vehicles vaccines but also as
biomarkers for different pulmonary diseases. After 2 years I accepted a
position as Research associate at King’s College London where Prof Juraj Ivanyi
was my supervisor during the three years I spent in his group trying to find a
better vaccine against Tuberculosis disease. At the beginning of 2018, I joined
the School of Pharmacy at University College London as Teaching Fellow to be
part of the scientific knowledge transference to MSc students.
I feel that with my breadth of knowledge within pharmacology and
immunology alongside experience of working in Science in three different
countries I have much to offer new students. I have developed and greatly
enjoyed all the responsibilities I have had in mentoring and encouraging
students with their prospective careers in Science. Firstly, as PhD student I
mentored five BSc and MSc students, whilst at Karolinska Institute I
coordinated the final project for three MSc students. Additionally, my
experience as a supervisor of MSc students at KCL together with my experience
as Immunology and Microbiology lecturer for second-year students at Dental
Institute gave me the enthusiasm in taking this job as Teaching fellow.
Currently I collaborate in a volunteer-basis with Native Scientist to introduce
Science to below of 8-years old kids in their own native language. In 2017 I
have been recognised by The Higher Education Academy as an Associate
Fellow.