Dr. Paola Sanjuan-Alberte received an MPharm degree from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) in 2015 and got a Ph.D. degree from the University of Nottingham in 2019. In 2022, she was awarded two independent fellowships, a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship and a “la Caixa” Junior Leader Fellowship, a position she is currently holding at the IST for the development of novel nano bioelectronic tools towards cancer therapeutics. She was also awarded an FCT exploratory project as PI and a BBSRC International Partnership Fund as co-PI. She has actively engaged with the scientific community through national and international conferences and symposiums, with a special highlight in the 4th Asilomar Bioelectronics Symposium where she was awarded for best poster presentation. In 2023, she co-founded and co-organised the 2023 British-Iberian Bioelectronics Workshop in Lisbon.