I did my undergraduate studies in physics in Uruguay and subsequently my PhD in nanomedicine in Ireland with Prof. Kenneth A. Dawson, studying interactions between nanoparticles and different types of cells. As my interest in neuroscience became stronger, I moved to France where I spent 4 years working at the Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience with Dr. Laurent Groc and Dr. Laurent Cognet where I developed techniques to study living brain tissue at the nanoscale.<\/p>\n
I subsequently moved to the University of Cambridge to the labs of Dr. Steven F. Lee and Prof. Sir David Klenerman FRS, where I worked developing single-molecule imaging techniques to understand the fundamental mechanisms underlying dementia. I moved to the University of St. Andrews in 2019 to start my research group in the area of neurophotonics funded by an ERC Starting Grant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":28786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biophotonics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/05\/juan-varela.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}