Dr. María Blanca Sánchez Martínez

Dr. Sánchez obtained her M.Sc. in Biochemistry from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). In 2005, she obtained her PhD in Molecular Biology from UAM, studying antibiotic biosynthesis regulation and resistance mechanisms of antibiotics by antibiotic producing microorganisms. In 2006 she joined the Biotecnología Microbiana department in Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC). Her research has been focused on antimicrobial resistance mechanisms by opportunistic pathogens.

She has participated in ten national and four international projects. Dr. Sánchez has been author and co-author of twenty-nine scientific articles, twenty-two of them has been published in the first quartile indexed journals, as first or last author in twelve of them. Her research has been presented in national and international conferences, 6 oral communications. She has also supervised three Master´s degree work and two doctoral theses and collaborates with two master programs: Master of Biotechnology of Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Hydrology and Water Resources Management of University of Alcala and Rey Juan Carlos University.

She joined IMDEA Water in September 2017 to study the effect of micropollutants on water microorganisms and antibiotic resistance genes.