Career path
Since 2026: Maître de conférences (Assistant Professor), Aix-Marseille Université, France.
2025 - 2026: Postdoctoral researcher (American Cancer Society-BCCC Institutional Fellowship, Brooklyn College, the City University of New York, United States), 'Development of heterometallic gold(I)-based chemo- and targeted therapies for the treatment of renal cell carcinoma'. Postdoc supervisor: Prof. Maria Contel.
2023 (3 months): Visiting PhD student in National University of Singapore (Faculty of Pharmacy, Prof. Giorgia Pastorin) and Singapore Immunology Network (A*STAR, Prof. Giulia Adriani). Work on nanodelivery platforms for Pt(IV) prodrugs and 3D cell culture and microfluidics for drug screening.
2021 - 2024: PhD in Molecular Chemistry (Sorbonne Université, France), 'Development of platinum(IV) conjugates of oxaliplatin and redox modulators as anticancer agents with reduced neurotoxicity'. PhD supervisor: Prof. Hélène Bertrand. Collaborations with Institut Cochin and Synchrotron SOLEIL.
2020 - 2021: Master in Molecular Chemistry (Sorbonne Université, France). Master thesis at Laboratoire des Biomolécules (now called Laboratoire Chimie Physique et Chimie du Vivant CPCV), 'Rhenium(I) tricarbonyl-based metallopeptides as inhibitors of Keap1-Nrf2 protein-protein interaction'. Master thesis supervisor: Prof. Hélène Bertrand.
2016 - 2020: Bachelor in Chemistry (Universidad de Oviedo, Spain). Erasmus+ program (2018-2019) at Sorbonne Université. Research internship (Beca de colaboración 2019-2020, Ministerio de Educación Español) at Bioorganic Chemistry research group (Prof. Vicente Gotor-Fernández, Universidad de Oviedo).
Keywords
Bioinorganic chemistry, metalloenzymes, bioinspired catalysis, medicinal inorganic chemistry, reactive oxygen species, enzyme mimics, molecular recognition.