AboutUs
What we want to know is how to get to know
We are chemists, physicists, mathematicians, engineers, and biologists who mimic biological complexity in the form of design principles to produce functional units from simple building blocks and their interactions. We called such an approach: Molecular Bionics.
Prof Giuseppe Battaglia
Group Leader
Beppe (short for Giuseppe) is an ICREA Research Professor and Group Leader at the Institute of Bioengineering of Catalunya, part of the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology.
Education
Laurea in Chemical Engineering (University of Palermo, Italy)
PhD in Physical Chemistry (University of Sheffield, UK)
Prior experience
Professor of Molecular Bionics (2013-2022) University College London, UK
Professor of Synthetic Biology (2011-2013), Associate Professor (2009-2011), and Assistant Professor (2006-2009), University of Sheffield, UK
Dr Lorena Ruiz Perez
Deputy Group Leader
Lorena is a Senior Research Fellow
Education
Licenciatura in Physics (UoSeville)
PhD in Soft Matter Physics (UoSheffield)
Prior experience
PDRA UoSheffield
Research Fellow UCL
Facility Manager UCL
Dr Claudia Di Guglielmo
Operation Officer
Claudia manages our labs operations in Barcelona. She's an expert in induced pluripotent stem cells and tissue engineering
Laurea in Medical-Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
(UoFerrara)
PhD in Biomedicine
(UoBarcelona)
Dr Matilde Ghibaudi
Biology Labs Manager
Matilde manages our Biology labs operations and working on Polymersomes for targeted drug delivery for in vivo application
She's an expert on with different animal models of disease and pathological condition plus biomaterials and microRNA in vivo delivery.
Master degree in Medical biotechnology and PhD in Neuroscience at University of Turin.
PDRA IIT Genoa
Mr Peter Pfeifer
Chemistry Labs Manager
Peter manages our chemistry labs and is undertaking a part time PhD in
the Design and synthesis of novel block-copolymers for applications in precision medicine
MSc Chemical Engineering
University of Veszprém, Hungary
Dr Catia Lopes
Biology Lead
Catia is a Marie Skłodowska Curie Research Fellow working on new gene therapies to control diseased blood-brain barrier)
BSc in Pathology, Physiology and Thanatology
(School of Health -P.Porto)
PhD in Neuroscience
(UoPorto)
PDRA UoPorto, IBEC
Dr Silvia Acosta Gutierrez
Physics Lead
Silvia is a Beatriu de Pinós Fellow and computational physicist working on the design od phenotypic medicine
B.Sci iin Physics
M.Sci Physics
(University of La Laguna. Tenerife (Spain))
Ph'D in Physics
(University of Cagliari)
PDRA UCL
Dr Joe Forth
Physics Lead
Joe is a 2020 Ramsey research fellow and he's developing novel methods for printing soft materials)
MSc. In Physics
(UoBirstol)
Ph.D. In Physics
(University of Edinburgh)
PDRA Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UCL
Dr Diana Matias
Research Fellow
Diana is a "La Caixa" Junior Leader Fellow working in collaboration with the labs of Helena Florindo in iMed.ULisboa, University of Lisbon,
B.Sc. in Biochemistry
(UoEvora)
M.Sc. in Biomedical research
(UoCoimbra)
Ph.D. inn in Morphological Sciences
(UoRio de Janeiro)
PDRA UCL
Dr Subhadip Ghosh
Research Fellow
Subha is working on the Chemotactic studies of active vesicles for delivery applications
B.Sc and M.Sc in Chemistry from University of Delhi, India
PhD from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, India
PDRA at Pennsylvania State University and University of Michigan, USA
Dr Adetunji Oyawale
Research Fellow
Adetunji (TJ) is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at West China Hospital, Sichuan University.
MSc in Medical Physics (OAU) - where he worked on Hematological and Histomorphological Effects of Electromagnetic Radiation.
PhD in Nuclear Science and Technology ( National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, USTC) - where he worked on Synchrotron Radiation and Bio-Applications.
Mr Valentino Barbieri
PhD student
Valentino is working on the Development of Bioinspired Phototactic nanorobots in collaboration with Dr Giorgio Volpe activematterlab.org
Laurea. in Materials and Nanotechnology Engineering
(Politecnico Milano)
Ms Maryam Al Ghandi
PhD student
Maryam is working on the study of biodegradation of polymersomes and micelles
BSc in Chemistry
MSc in Analytical and Forensic chemistry
(UoHull)
Ms Barbara Ibarzo Yus
PhD Student
Barbara is working on Polymersomes for cancer immune-therapy applications.
B.Sc. in Biotechnology
(UoZaragoza)
MSc Genetics and Cell Biology
(Coputense Madrid)
Mr Joe Buckley
PhD student
Joe is working on the Theory and Simulation of Phenotypic Targeting and Super Selectivity .
MSci in Chemistry with Mathematics
(University College London)
MRes in Fluid Dynamics Across Scales
(Imperial College London)
Mr Gabriel Ing
PhD student
Gabriel is working on Liquid phase transmission electron microscopy of RNA polymerase collaboration with the Prof Finn Werner labs
BSc in Biochemistry
Imperial College London
Mr Junyang Chen (陈君洋)
PhD Student
Junyang is working on the Development of novel nanomedicine for Alzheimer’s disease in collaboration with Xiaohe Tian from the West China Hospital Sichuan University
B.Sci Biology
Anhui University
MSci Cell Biology
The University of Manchester
Dr Mohit Kumar
Chemistry Lead
Mohit is a Caixa Junior Leader Fellow and is developing out-of-equilibrium nanomaterials for targeted therapy.
B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Chemistry, (Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning)
Ph.D. in Nanomaterials (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research)
PDRA City University of New York
Dr Iris Batalha
Chemistry Lead
Iris is a 'La Caixa' Postdoctoral Junior Leader working on the development of targeted nanotherapeutics for drug delivery with a focus on infectious diseases and cancer.
BSc in Applied Chemistry, MSc in Biotechnology, and PhD in Bioengineering (MIT-Portugal Program) at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal.
PDRA University of Cambridge
Dr Daniel Gonzalez Carter
Biology Lead
Daniel is a Caixa Junior leader postdoctoral fellow working on new strategies to cross the blood-brain barrier
B.Sci Biochemistry and Biological Chemistry, (UoNottingham)
MSc. Pharmacology (King's College London)
Ph'D in Neuroscience (Imperial College London)
PDRA Imperial College and University of Tokyo
Ms Jiangqi Feng (冯江琪)
PhD student
Jangqi is working on the mechanism and therapy of BBB inflammation
B.Eng. Biopharmaceutics
(Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine)
MSc in Pharmaceutics
(University College London)
Ms Melis Pisiren
PhD student
Melis is working on the study of macromolecular transport across the blood-brain barrier in collaboration with Astrazeneca
BSci. in Genetics
(UoGlasgow)
MRes. Neuromuscular Diseases
(University College London)
Ms Lara Aiassa
PhD Student
Lara is working on the study of the pathophysiology of Tuberculosis in order to decipher the host-pathogens interactions d in collaboration with Prof. Loris Rizzello.
B.Eng Biomedical Engineering
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
M.Sci in Bionanotechnology
(Politecnico di Torino)
Ms Barbara Borges
PhD student
Barbara is working on the study of active transport in reactive vesicles
BEng Chemical Engineering
MEng Mechanical Engineering (Federal University of Minas Gerais - UFMG)
MSci Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
(KU Leuven & University of Barcelona)
Mr Jose Muñoz López
PhD student
Jose is working on the design of novel antiviral nanoparticles.
BSc in Chemistry (Universidad Autonoma Barcelona) MSc in Organic Chemistry (Universidade Federal de Minas Gera)
Mr Gian Marco Tuveri
PhD Student
Gian is working on on the optimisaiton of computational and experimental methods for studying LRP1 structure
Laura in Physics
(Università di Cagliari)
Mr Zhendong Xie (谢振东)
PhD student
Xie is working on the development of novel pharmacokinetic models for phenotypic targeting
MEng in Instrument Science and Opto-electronics Engineering, (Hefei University of Technology)
Mr Akhil Venugopal
PhD student
Akhil is working on the synthesis and self-assembly of novel out-of-equilbrium delivery systems under the co-supervision of Mohit Kumar
BSci and MSci in Chemistry IISER Mohali, India
Mr Victor Mejias Perez
Victor is developing polymer-drug nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery and combination therapies for TB treatment
BSc in Biochemistry
(Autónoma University of Madrid)
MSc in Research in Translational Medicine
(Complutense University of Madrid)
Mr Marco Basile
PhD student
Marco is a Caixa Incoming PhD Fellow and he's elucidating the transport of misfolded proteins across the blood brain barrier
Master: Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, University of Naples Federico II.
Ms Claudia Codano
PhD student
Clau is working on the Design and characterisation of Phenotypic Anti-inflammatory Nanomedicines
Laurea Triennale in Nutraceutical Sciences and Laurea Magistrale in Pharmaceutical Biotechnologies at University of Naples Federico II (UNINA)
Mr Alessandro Ronzoni
PhD Student
Alessandro is working on the structure and function of LRPs receptors and their role in the transport across the blood-brain barrier
Bachelor degree in Biology at Università degli Studi di Milano
Master degree in Molecular Biology of the Cell at Università degli Studi di Milano.