Head of the Centre for Cellular Imaging, University of Gothenburg, Node of the National Microscopy (NMI) Infrastructure and Unit of the SciLifeLab Infrastructure in Sweden. Vice-chair of the Panels of Node Board for the Euro-BioImaging ERIC consortium and President of the Core Technologies for Life Sciences Association (CTLS). Graduated (1989) in Biology from the University Santiago de Compostela (Spain), and received her PhD (1996) in Biochemistry from the University of Vigo (Spain). She has a background in Cell and Molecular Biology, and is the main responsible of an open-access Correlative Multimodal Imaging Facility that provides technical and scientific excellence by the integration of multiple imaging technologies, together with image processing and analysis tools in a single core. Main interest is to provide expertise in correlated multimodal imaging workflows, from experimental design to image acquisition and analysis, tailored to various research domains within the Life Sciences.

She has more than 20 years of experience in organization, implementation and management of resercah infrastructures and training activities at the National and International level. She is the scientific coordinator of the NMI, member of the main Board of the Nordic Microscopy Society (SCANDEM) and the Bridging Nordic Microscopy Infrastructure (NordForks). On the European landscape, she is also well connected to several other European facilities, through the European Light Microscopy Initiative, ELMI (member of the Steering committee). She is a partner of the EU-funded project RItrainPlus. External Advisor for the Focus Group, Core Facilities & Big Data” at the Alliance4Life. Member of the Czech-BioImaging Advisory Board. Furthermore, she represents Sweden in the Management Committee and is the Coordinator of the Short-Term Scientific Missions of the European COST Action (CA17121)-network in Correlated Multimodal Imaging in Life Sciences (COMULIS).

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