Dr. Alaa Adawy is a biophysicist, who currently acts as the staff scientist at the Unit of Electron microscopy and Nanotechnology, Institute for Scientific and Technological Resources (SCTs), University of Oviedo, Spain. She obtained her PhD at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, on the physical chemistry of protein crystallization. This was followed by two postoctoral studies in confined crystallization and chiral amplification and monitoring of protein nucleation with SLS and microfluidics technologies. She is also an experienced scientist in the field of biomaterials, in which she conducted her master studies (cum laude). She conducts research on multidisciplinary topics, in which researchers with different backgrounds cooperate to achieve new scientific insights. In particular, she is mainly concerned with studies related to medicinal chemistry. She combines her knowledge from the macromolecules and biomaterials fields and works at their interfaces. (keywords: medical biophysics, biomaterials, protein nucleation, protein crystal growth, nanoconfined crystallization, microfluidics, electron microscopy)