Vanesa Fernández-Moreira (PI)

Vanesa Fernández-Moreira earned her BSc and MPhil degrees in Chemistry from the University of Vigo (Spain) in 2005. Subsequently, she relocated to Cardiff University (UK), where she completed her PhD in 2008 under the guidance of Dr. M. P. Coogan and Dr. A. J. Amoroso, specializing in luminescent MLCT complexes. To expand her expertise in fluorescent bioprobes, she undertook her first postdoctoral position within the research group led by Prof. J.-C. Bünzli at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland). During this period, she gained proficiency in lanthanide chemistry, bioconjugation techniques, and biological assays. Later, she joined Prof. Sylvia Draper's group at Trinity College Dublin (TCD, Ireland) for an additional year, focusing on supramolecular chemistry.

In 2011, Vanesa Fernández-Moreira became an associate researcher in the group headed by Prof. M. Concepción Gimeno at the ISQCH. Here, she established and co-led a new research line titled 'Luminescent Metallodrugs as Theranostic Agents.' In 2019, she was honored with a Ramon y Cajal fellowship and in 2024 she became a tenure-track researcher at CSIC-ISQCH. Additionally, she is a member of the direction board of AEBIN (Spanish Association of Bioinorganic Chemistry). Her main research focuses on the design of innovative metallodrugs for photodynamic therapy.