Francisco Blanco graduated in Biotechnology at Technical University of Madrid in 2017. He later obtained a MSc in Industrial Biotechnology at Complutense Univeristy of Madrid (2019), period in which he did a research stay at Dr. Kuan-Chen Cheng at the Food Science Institute at the National Taiwan University (NTU) working on the synthesis of bacterial cellulose. Since 2019, he is a predoctoral researcher at the Polymer Biotechnology Lab at the Biological Research Center Margarita Salas from the National Spanish Research Center (CIB-CSIC), under the supervision of Dr. Auxiliadora Prieto. He’s research topics are the sustainable production of bacterial biopolymers (polyhydroxyalkanoates and bacterial cellulose); the use of synthetic biology strategies to functionalize those polymers, particularly he is interested in antimicrobial properties; and their biomedical applications.