Hello! My name is Teresa, and I am passionate about science.
If you ask my friends, they will tell you that even my everyday conversations are sprinkled with science... and with some geeky words...
For as long as I can remember I have been very curious, I liked making pots with plants, and when I was in class with my friends, the teachers already told me that I had a gift for science.
I am very observant, and I love to look for relationships and patterns in everything I find, and if I can draw conclusions and quantify the phenomenon, all the better.
This I say with a statistical confidence of p<0.001 😉
The ¨¡Ala!¨ and ¨¡Eureka!¨ moments give me adrenaline rushes and pizza, melted cheese and fritters, make my hair stand on end. They're not the healthiest of foods, but every now and then... no one's bitter for a sweet!
And if I'm going to talk about passions, I love travelling! I've been to some of the most unique places on our planet, from the base of a volcano that spews out sulphuric compounds in Japan, tothe top of the Potala Palace on the Tibetan plateau.
Academic background
As a science enthusiast, I studied a degree that allowed me to combine mathematics, chemistry, biology and physics, so I went into pharmacy. As it seemed too little to do just one degree, in the third year I also started optics. My hunger for knowledge knew no bounds and I was so passionate about studying that, without intending to, I was awarded the Extraordinary End of Degree Award in both subjects.
At that point, as I was very attracted to research and discovering new things, I did a Master in Biomedical Research and then aPhD in Biochemistry and Biomedicine at the Faculty of Medicine in Valencia.
Later, as this was not enough for me, I moved to the United Kingdom to do a postdoc at Queen Mary University of London, where I led several research projects on the mechanisms of tumour invasion in the mammary gland. Currently, I combine my work as a lecturer at the university with scientific dissemination.
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