Sandra Sánchez is Associate Professor of Microbiology at the USC. She has accumulated 24 years of experience in research and teaching of Microbiology. She has been PI of research projects and published numerous scientific articles (ORCID 0000-0001-9601-3866). She is the coordinator of the research group BIOTEC (https://investigacion.usc.gal/grupos/4523/detalle) and her research is focused on the prevention and treatment of infectious disease, especially on the study of antimicrobial substances of natural origin to overcome bacterial resistance to antibiotics. She is technical expert for the Spanish Research Certification Agency (ACIE), reviewer for the different journals and project reviewer for the Czech Science Foundation.