Mariela comes to us from Cuba where she undertook her undergraduate studies and a Masters in the Physics Department, at the University of Havana.
After moving to the Aimé Cotton Laboratory, Paris-Sud 11 University, Orsay, France to obtain her PhD in “Optical tweezers to manipulate nano and micro objects interesting for chemical or biological applications” she then undertook postdoctoral work in Italy at the NanoScience Institute S3 – National Research Council (CNR-Nano) and University of Modena e Reggio Emilia studying protein denaturation.
She is currently working on improving our set-up for facilitating single molecule experiments, such as DNA stretching.
She also belongs to a group of Independent Developers for Mobile Applications and has been a member of Website Administrator team on: http://www.thedungeontavern.com/