BIO

Noelia obtained a four-year Bachelor’s degree in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain, in 2018. During her undergraduate studies, she completed two summer internships focused on the development of functionalised gold nanoparticles for melanoma treatment and the generation of liposomes using microfluidic technologies. In her final year, she carried out her Bachelor’s thesis at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), where she worked on the encapsulation of antibiotics in microfluidic-generated liposomes for the treatment of bacterial infections.

In 2020, she completed an MSc in Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the Universitat Ramon Llull – IQS School of Engineering (URL-IQS), Barcelona. Her Master’s dissertation focused on the development of polymeric coatings for PBAE nanoparticles aimed at targeted gene delivery to the brain.

Noelia joined the Nanomedicine Lab in March 2021 as a Research Assistant, where she worked on the preparation and physicochemical characterisation of biological-grade graphene oxide sheets and their complexation with biologically active peptide molecules. In September 2021, she began her PhD at the Nanomedicine Lab as a full-time doctoral student, supported by a four-year FPI Severo Ochoa PhD fellowship. Her doctoral research focused on the engineering of biomimetic lipid nanovesicles for cancer immunotherapy.

Following the successful defence of her PhD thesis, Noelia re-joined the Nanomedicine Lab as a postdoctoral researcher. Her current work focuses on the engineering of novel lipid-based nanoparticles for the treatment of glioblastoma.