Dr María Eugenia Cornide Petronio has a Degree in Biology in 2008, a Master Degree in Neurosciences in 2010 (two-years Master) and a PhD in Neuroscience in 2013 all of them from the University of Santiago de Compostela. As a Predoctoral student in the Department of Cell Biology of the University of Santiago de Compostela, her investigations focusing on the study of the different neurotransmitters after a spinal cord injury in an animal model capable of regenerating its central nervous system. During this stage she has been professor of the practical sessions of Cell Biology. In addition, she has made a three-month stay at the Neuroregeneration Center (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) thanks to a grant awarded by Disease Models & Mechanisms Journal. Also, two more scholarships were granted, one for the training of various techniques in the United Kingdom and one for the attendance at the 8th FENS Forum of Neuroscience.

Subsequently, in her Postdoctoral stage, she has joined the research group "Strategies for the protection of hepatic injury induced by ischemia-reperfusion" (IDIBAPS, Barcelona). Her research focuses on the search of pharmacological and surgical strategies that protect the steatotic liver against the vulnerability that presents to the lesion induced by ischemia-reperfusion and to the failure in the hepatic regeneration in hepatic resections. In addition, brain death plays a fundamental role in ischemia-reperfusion injury, so its incorporation as a neuroscientist has helped to understand the processes that occur after brain death. Such investigations could improve the post-operative results in liver surgery.

In general, the research carried out by Dr Cornide-Petronio has led to 19 publications, most of them in international journals of the first decile or quartile of the specialty, including American Journal of Transplantation, Journal of Hepatology, Journal of Neurotrauma, Brain Structure & Function, among other. She has published 5 book chapters and participated in more than 40 national and international conferences related to the specialty of liver transplantation and regeneration. All this has led to the scientific career of Dr Cornide-Petronio has derived in more than 110 citations, with an average of 18 citations/year and a h-index of 7. She has participated and participates in 16 R&D projects financed in public calls and in 8 R&D contracts of special relevance with companies. She was beneficiary of a Sara Borrell contract awarded by the Carlos III Health Institute. She has also been the beneficiary of different scholarships and prizes awarded by different scientific societies such as the Cost Action, the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies, International Brain Research Organization, among others. In addition, she actively teaches in different seminars and classes and is currently a supervisor of a PhD student at the University of Barcelona, faculty for the EASL (European Association of Study of Liver) and a reviewer of manuscripts submitted for publication in international journals indexed in the SCI and with great relevance and impact factor within the specialty of liver transplantation.