Dr. Vanesa Fernández-Moreira

Vanesa Fernández-Moreira obtained her BSc and MPhil in Chemistry at University of Vigo (Spain) in 2005. Then, she moved to Cardiff University (UK) where she completed her PhD (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 (École Politechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland).  During this period she got expertise in lanthanide chemistry, bioconjungation techniques and biological assays. Thereafter, she joined Prof. Sylvia Draper 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 led by Prof M. Concepción Gimeno at the ISQCH as an associated  researcher, where she stablished and co-lead a new research line “luminescent metallodrugs as theranostic agents”. In 2020 she became a Ramón y Cajal Fellow at the University of Zaragoza and she lead a research line entitled "Ir(III) based Photosensitisers for upgraded PDT".