Marcela Manrique-Moreno received her B.Sc. degree in Chemistry from the Universidad Industrial de Santander (Colombia) in 2002 and her Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences from the Universidad de Concepción (Chile) in 2009. She joined the University of Antioquia in 2004, where she is currently a Professor in the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences. Her research interests focus on peptide–membrane interactions, biophysical characterization of lipid systems, and the development of antimicrobial and anticancer peptides using model membrane approaches.