alcortajarena

Aitziber L. Cortajarena is an Ikerbasque Research Professor who leads the Biomolecular Nanotechnology Laboratory at CIC biomaGUNE, where she served as the Scientific ViceDirector in 2021, and has been the Scientific Director since 2022. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles in internationally recognized journals, which have been cited over 3300 times, 6 invited reviews, 2 edited books, and 5 granted patents. She has presented her work at over 50 internationally recognized conferences. Her work has been recognized by the Horizon Prize from The Royal Society of Chemistry, the Research Excellence Award from The Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Women in Science Career Award from Ikerbasque. She is Associate Editor of ACS Applied Biomaterials, ACS Publications, and Senior Editor at Protein Science, Wiley. She is the vice president of the Spanish Biophysical Society and Member of the International Protein Society Council. Her mentoring abilities are reflected in the number of researchers she has supervised: 22 Master students (10 of which international), 18 PhD students, and 14 postdoctoral researchers in the past 5 years. Many of her alumni have gone onto successful academic or industry careers. Cortajarena has obtained numerous European projects, including an ERC Consolidator Grant (ProNANO), two ERC-PoC (NIMM, NanoImaging), an ERA-CoBioTech (coordinator), four FET-Open projects, one coordinated (e-Prot, ARTIBLED, FairyLights, DeDNAed), and one EICPathfinder project (iSenseDNA), which cover from the fundamental development of protein-based tools to the validation of biomolecule-based technologies in biomedical and technological applications.

February 2025