Lorena Redondo-Morata

Inserm

Lorena carried her PhD in the Physical Chemistry department of the University of Barcelona, concomitantly with the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC). Her PhD was devoted to the study of nanomechanics of lipid bilayers mainly using atomic force microscopy (AFM)-based force spectroscopy. She obtained her PhD in 2012 under the supervision of Prof. Fausto Sanz. In 2013, she joined as a postdoctoral fellow to the Simon Scheuring’s laboratory at the Institute de la Santé et la Recherche Médicale (Inserm) in Marseille, France. There, she learnt High-Speed AFM to study dynamic remodeling of biomembranes. She was awarded in 2016 by the Spanish Biophysical Society with the Young Researcher Prize. In 2018 she obtained an Inserm tenure researcher position in the Institut Pasteur in Lille, France. At the present, she continues her studies devoted to the mechanics and dynamics of cell membrane remodeling using AFM and correlative microscopies. One of her main current research axes is the study of the dynamics of synaptic vesicle transmission.