Chair

Mariana Medina Sánchez

Dr. Mariana Medina Sánchez is a leading scientist in bioinspired medical microrobotics and advanced microsystems, currently serving as Ikerbasque Research Professor and Group Leader at CIC nanoGUNE in San Sebastián, Spain. Dr. Medina Sánchez earned the degree of Mechatronics Engineer at the University of San Buenaverntura (Bogotá, Colombia) and undertook master’s and PhD studies at the ICNN (Barcelona, Spain) to specialize on the development of nanomaterials-based and inkjet-printed electrochemical biosensors for disease diagnoses. She then joined the Leibniz Institute in Dresden (Germany), where contributed to the advancement of magnetically actuated microcarriers for immotile sperm transport and played a crucial role in developing ultrasensitive rolled-up microsensors for nucleic acid detection, promoting from a post-doctoral position to group leader. Recognized for her contributions, she secured the prestigious ERC Starting Grant for her project MicroGIFT. 

Scientific Committee

• Mariana Medina Sánchez
• Friedrich Striggow

Organizing Committee

• Mariana Medina Sánchez
• Friedrich Striggow
• Dane Ruscuklu
• Itziar Otegui