My career

Science Communication and Research Evaluation Intern

European Space Agency · Exploration Science Office, ESTEC · Noordwijk, Netherlands

Incoming · human spaceflight programme

• Joining ESA's human spaceflight programme to help communicate exploration science and support research evaluation, for readers who range from review panels to the wider public.

Master's degree in Space Studies · Space Policy and Entrepreneurship

International Space University · Strasbourg, France

Full scholarship · Fundación Barrié

• Space policy and entrepreneurship, alongside executive certificates in space applications.

Research Engineer and MSc Researcher

Giacomello Lab · SciLifeLab, KTH Royal Institute of Technology · Stockholm, Sweden

NASA Rodent Research 9 · pipelines kept on as the lab standard

• Made dense spaceflight biology data, the NASA Rodent Research 9 bone and muscle samples, readable for specialists and non specialists alike, through clear summaries and figures.
• Wrote reproducible data pipelines in R and Python that the lab kept on as its standard.
• Produced the figures and summaries the team relied on internally and in its outreach.

Gravity Related Research Summer School

European Space Agency · ELGRA · Transinne, Belgium

Grade A

• Microgravity research, and the ground platforms that stand in for it.

Research Assistant

Anna Rising Lab · Karolinska Institutet · Stockholm, Sweden

• Produced recombinant spider silk proteins and assembled 3D scaffolds.
• Generated protocols for structural characterisation.

Design and Communications Coordinator

TEDxKI · Karolinska Institutet · Stockholm, Sweden

A TEDx event of 2,500 people · one visual identity across everything

• Ran the visual identity and every piece of communication for a TEDx event of 2,500 people: slides, signage, social posts and speaker decks, all held to one coherent style.
• Built the slide templates and visual guidelines that every speaker worked from.

Master's degree in Biomedicine

Karolinska Institutet · Stockholm, Sweden

Grade VG, highest distinction · full scholarship, Fundación la Caixa

• Biomedicine, with the thesis carried out at SciLifeLab on spaceflight biology data.

Bachelor Thesis Researcher

CiMUS · Universidade de Santiago de Compostela · Santiago de Compostela, Spain

• Investigated novel low molecular weight compounds for treating rheumatoid arthritis using gene expression assays (qPCR).
• Explored the efficacy of eprinomectin in reducing pro inflammatory cytokine secretion in vitro.

Research Intern

Prionlab · CiMUS, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela · Santiago de Compostela, Spain

• Studied prion biology and protein misfolding diseases.
• Learned proteomics techniques for protein structural elucidation.

Research Intern

Pereira-Acedo Lab · ILDH, University College London · London, United Kingdom

• Generated 3D tumour spheroids to test novel photosensitive therapeutic compounds.

Research Intern

Immunity and Small Molecules Lab · CiMUS, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela · Santiago de Compostela, Spain

• Developed cell culture skills with suspension and adherent cells.
• Performed colorimetric quantification (ELISA) and flow cytometry analysis.

Bachelor's degree in Biotechnology

Universidade de Santiago de Compostela · Santiago de Compostela, Spain

9.2 out of 10 · Premio Extraordinario Fin de Carrera, top of the class · Academic Excellence Awards, Xunta de Galicia

• Biotechnology, with three research placements at CiMUS alongside the degree.

Speaker and Outreach Content Creator

Independent Science Communication · Spain, Sweden and Belgium

Around 30 public talks · three countries · six years

• Gave around 30 public talks in three countries over six years, from primary school classrooms to international conferences, designing the slides, graphics and posts for each one.
• Reshaped the same science, across space, biology and research careers, to fit whoever was in the room.