
Dr. Sara Rojas
Curriculum
Sara was born in Barcelona, where she spend her years as student in a near city called Badalona. She studied chemistry at the University of Barcelona and moved to Granada to study biology. In 2024, she obtained an International PhD under the supervision of Prof. Jorge Rodríguez Navarro and Prof. Elisa Barea Martínez. During her PhD, she performed two scientific stages in the University of Saint Andrews (Scotland), under the supervision of Dr. Russell Morris; and in the Institut Lavoisier in Versailles (ILV, France), under the supervision of Dr. Christian Serre. In 2016, she obtained the prestigious grant Marie Curie Individual Fellow with Dr. Nathalie Guillou to develop porous materials for the treatment of intoxications in the ILV. In 2018, she obtained the “Atracción del Talento” grant awarded from the Comunidad de Madrid to join the group of Dr. Patricia Horcajada in the IMDEA Energy institute (Madrid, Spain). In 2020 she was awarded with a Juan de la Cierva Incorporación grant to join the University of Granada. She is Ramón y Cajal researcher since 2022 and co-leader of the Biochemistry and Electronics as Sensing Technologies (BEST) group.
Actual position
Ramón y Cajal postdoctoral researcher