Carolina Paz Quezada
Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile
Biography
Carolina Quezada has completed her PhD in Biotechnology at the University of Manchester on 2016 and now works as a postodotoral research scientist at 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 first time a reductive dehalogenase with potential applications in bioremediation [Nature 2015; 517(7535):513-516]. Now her work is focused in the design of greener solar cells using biological compounds and biosynthesized nanoparticles.