Mariona Guitart-Mampel earned her Bachelors in Biology from the Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona (Spain) and then obtained her Master's Degree in Biomedicine at the Universitat de Barcelona, where she trained at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. In addition, she worked abroad for seven months in the Upstream Processing Department of Synthon BV, a Pharmaceutical Company located in Nijmegen (Netherlands), thanks to a ‘Leonardo Da Vinci’ fellowship, granted by the European Union.

After finishing her Master’s Degree, Mariona Guitart-Mampel joined the Muscle Research and Mitochondrial Function Group, where she conducted her PhD studies. Her field of research was the study of mitochondrial involvement in intrauterine growth restriction and the association of this process with cardiovascular remodeling. She received her PhD on December 2018 with her dissertation being awarded Summa Cum Laude.

During her scientific career, Dr. Guitart has co-authored 30 scientific articles (five of them as the first author), all in scientific journals ranked within the first quarter in her field of knowledge. In fact, a majority of these articles were published in journals within the top 10%. In addition, she currently has one additional manuscript in preparation from her previous work. Moreover, Mariona Guitart-Mampel has been invited to present her work over 54 times (13 of them as first author) for both oral and poster presentations, at national and international conferences.

Mariona Guitart-Mampel has been involved in different collaborative projects, with both national and international teams, including Dr. Yury Ladilov in Berlin (Germany) and Dr. Anthony H.V. Schapira in London (UK). In fact, she was part of the CIBERER network (a prestigious net of collaborations funded by the Spanish Ministry of Health). She was actively involved as a research member in different competitive projects funded by grants from the Spanish Ministry of Health. These projects focused on studying mitochondrial physiology and dysfunction in rare diseases, HIV infection during pregnancy, neurodegeneration, and cardiovascular-related diseases.

After completion of her first postdoctoral training at Universitat de Barcelona last June of 2019, Mariona Guitart-Mampel joined Dr. Solesio’s laboratory at Rutgers University in September 2019. She was working in an R00/K99-funded laboratory, on a project focusing on examining the mechanisms that drive neuronal mitochondrial dysfunction and failure in aging and neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease. Nowadays, she is a postdoctoral fellow (Sara Borrell CD21/00019) at Muscle Research and Mitochondrial Function Group at IDIBAPS.