Karla Juarez-Moreno is an Associate Researcher at the Center for Applied Physics and Advanced Technology (CFATA) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Queretaro, Mexico. She received a Biologist degree from UNAM in 2002, an MSc, and a Ph.D. in Biotechnology from CICESE in 2011. The DAAD German Agency funded part of her Ph.D. to continue her doctoral studies at the Institute for Immunology in Hamburg, Germany. In 2011, she received the prestigious Fulbright García-Robles Scholarship (COMEXUS) to work with artificial transcription factors in the Pharmacology Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. In 2013, she was awarded a second DGAPA-UNAM Postdoctoral fellowship to work in the Bionanotechnology Department at CNyN-UNAM. In 2014, she joined to CNyN-UNAM in Ensenada, Mexico, as CONACYT Researcher. In 2018, she received the Award for Innovation in Bionano Science and Technology (CINVESTAV/NeolPharma). Her current research focuses on Nanotoxicology and the cellular and molecular responses to nanomaterials and the studying the impact of commercial nanomaterials in different cellular models. Other interests include the effects of incidental nanomaterials (i.e., nanoplastics), engineered metallic and metallic oxide nanoparticles, and the study of their properties and application in biomedicine.