Carolina Paz Quezada
Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile
Biography
Carolina Paz Quezada has completed her PhD in Biotechnology at the University of Manchester in 2016 and now works as a Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Center for Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology (CBIB) at Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile. Since her PhD, she has been studying bacterial redox proteins, managing to cristalise for the fi rst time a reductive dehalogenase with potential applications in bioremediation. Currently, her work is focused in the design of greener solar cells using biological compounds and biosynthesized nanoparticles.