I am a pre-doctoral researcher at the Liver Cancer Translational Research Laboratory at the Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS) and have been accepted by the Universitat de Barcelona (UB) for the completion of a PhD program in Medicine and Translational Research under the supervision of Prof Josep M Llovet (Full Professor of Medicine-Hepatic Oncology at the UB). Here, I am involved in scientific research projects as part of the collaboration network ‘HUNTER: Hepatocellular Carcinoma Expediter Network’, working in HCC and liver disease in order to gain better understanding and to come up with innovative ways to improve treatment for patients with HCC. I graduated in the B.S. in Biomedical Sciences at the Universitat de Barcelona and finished my studies in the year 2020 by accomplishing a M.S. in Translational Medicine from the same university, for which I received a scholarship 'Màsters d’Excel·lència' from the Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera. In addition, have been awarded the ‘Premi Extraordinari de Màsters Universitaris 2020’ by the Universitat de Barcelona for master students with academic excelence (average mark: 9.4, 'Excellent with honors'). Previously, I was also awarded with an Erasmus scholarship by the Fundació Bosch i Gimpera and a MOBINT aid for the international mobility of students with academic recognition by the Generalitat de Catalunya.

During the Biomedical Sciences degree, I carried out two research stays abroad: one in 2018 at the Laboratory of Tumor Immunology at the Universidad de Chile (Santiago de Chile) as I was selected among many candidates to participate in a research exchange program organized by The 'International Federation of Medical Students Associations' (IFMSA) ; and another one in the academic year 2018-19, as part of an Erasmus exchange program. For this, I did a 10-month stay at the Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), during which I attended several modules at the M.Sc. in Molecular Medicine, while completing my Undergraduate Thesis at the Cellular Immunology Group at the Trinity Translational Medicine Institute under the supervision of Dr Derek G Doherty, covering the subject of the role of V delta 1 T lymphocytes in the immune response against Candida albicans.

My skills include different molecular and cellular biology techniques, such as DNA/RNA extraction, real-time quantitative PCR, immunohistochemistry, flow cytometry, cancer cell culture and their manipulation with antitumor drugs, as well as data analysis using softwares such as GraphPad Prism, QuPath, FlowJo and R. Furthermore, I have received complementary training and am qualified for the experimentation with animals for the functions of care, euthanasia, realization of procedures, and design of projects and procedures in rodents and fish. Besides my work in translational research, I have also participated during the preparation of grants at national and international scope and industry collaboration grants.

In addition to my biomedical training, in the year 2015, I completed a bachelor’s degree in Nursing at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, during which I performed work placements in primary care, as well as in general and maternity hospital services such as surgery, neonatal unit, gastroenterology and traumatology. Apart from my academic education, I also obtained the Professional Music Diploma in Violin in the year 2012 and continue exercising occasionally as a violin interpreter and pedagogue.