Maria is a Biologist with an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degree in IDOH "Infectious Diseases and One Health” from the Université de Tours, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and The University of Edinburgh. Her work has been focused on drug discovery, with her dissertation project “Production of SARS-CoV-2-specific TransMabs as a response to an emerging pandemic” and her previous position as a research associate in a biotech company (Cambridge, UK). She now joined the Jones lab as a PhD student to develop in-vitro models of infectious diseases using biomaterial technologies.