Dr. Vanesa Fernández-Moreira obtained her BSc and MPhil in Chemistry at the University of Vigo (Spain) in 2005. Then, she moved to Cardiff University (UK) where she completed her Ph.D. (2008) under the supervision of Dr. M. P. Coogan and Dr. A. J. Amoroso in the area of luminescent MLCT complexes. After that, she started her first postdoctoral stay in the research group headed by Prof. J.-C. Bünzli at the EPFL (Switzerland). During this period she got expertise in lanthanide chemistry and bioconjugation techniques. Thereafter, she joined Prof. Sylvia Draper’s group at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) where she spent another year working on the area of supramolecular chemistry. In February 2011, she joined the group headed by Prof. M. Concepción Gimeno at the ISQCH as an associated researcher, where she established and co-led a new research line “luminescent metallodrugs as theranostic agents”. In 2020 she became a "Ramón y Cajal Fellow" at the University of Zaragoza.