Silvia Hernández-Ainsa

Position: Tenured Scientist, CSIC

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Silvia Hernández Ainsa obtained her PhD in Chemistry in February 2011 from the University of Zaragoza, where she focused on liquid crystal dendrimers within the CLIP group under the supervision of Prof. Joaquín Barberá and Dr. Mercedes Marcos. In March 2011, she joined Prof. Ulrich Keyser’s group at the Department of Physics, University of Cambridge (UK), as a postdoctoral researcher working on single-molecule detection using solid-state nanopores. In 2014, she began her independent research career in DNA nanotechnology for biomimetics and nanomedicine as a Herchel Smith Fellow at Cambridge. Since June 2017, she works at the Institute of Nanoscience and Materials of Aragón (INMA), at the CLIP group, initially as a permanent ARAID researcher, and since December 2024 as CSIC Tenured Scientist. Her current research bridges nucleic acid nanotechnology, polymeric materials, and biomedicine, with projects focused on tailored self-assembled nucleic acid nanostructures and synthetic polymers for drug delivery, gene therapy, and synthetic biology (research overview).

ORCID: 0000-0003-3109-4284