Andrea Figuer obtained her degree in Sanitary Biology at the Universidad de Alcalá in 2019. Then, in 2020, she obtained a Master’s degree in Research in Immunology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. In January 2021, she received the Instituto de Salud Carlos III’s fellowship PFIS (predoctoral contract of formation in health), a competitive fellowship that covers her doctoral studies. For her doctoral studies, she is enrolled in the Life Science program at the Universidad de Alcalá. She works for the Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria (IRYSCIS) and the Universidad de Alcalá in the group “Cell damage associated with senescence”, coordinated by Dr. Rafael Ramírez. Her doctoral thesis is directed by Dras. Matilde Alique and Julia Carracedo. Their goal is to describe the mechanisms of cell damage and senescence, highlighting the processes caused by pathologies like chronic kidney disease, that result in premature aging of the patient. During this first year of her thesis, she has published two congress communications, one review article as a first author, and one research article as the eighth author.