Silvana Alborés is Full Time-Professor of Microbiology at Faculty of Chemistry at UDELAR, Researcher in the National Research and Innovation Agency (ANII) and Basic Sciences Development Program (PEDECIBA), Vice-Director of the School-Latin American Center for Biotechnology (CABBIO)in Uruguay. She received her PhD in Chemistry in 2011. She did posdoctoral internships in UNICAMP and CNPEM (Brazil), UNIZAR (Spain), University of Cordoba (Argentina) and UMN (USA). She is PhD supervisor and head of postgraduate and undergraduate courses in Nanotechnology and Microbiology. She leads research lines in Nanobiotechnology and Antimicrobials, publishing nearly 30 manuscripts in these topics. She was responsible for projects with national and international collaboration. She has reviewed numerous articles in international peer-reviewed scientific journals.