Paloma Aivar is Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology since 2020 in the Department of Health Sciences of the Faculty of Biomedical and Health Sciences of the Universidad Europea de Madrid. She has a degree in Biochemistry from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2003) and a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the Biophysics Unit-CSIC joint center of the University of the Basque Country (2008). She is accredited by ANECA for the figure of Contracted Doctor Professor and Private University Professor (2018).

Her research experience has always been linked to the area of neurosciences and focused on the molecular and circuital bases of neurodegenerative diseases. She is co-author of 11 scientific articles and has participated in more than 10 projects.

Incorporated since 2014 into the faculty of the Universidad Europea de Madrid, she has extensive experience as a teacher in different degrees in the area of health sciences: Pharmacy, Biomedicine, Nursing, Biotechnology. She has carried out several teaching innovation activities, recognized at the institutional level and in national and international conferences on educational innovation. In 2017, she received the 2nd Teaching Innovation Award for the activity "Integrated Learning of basic and procedural nursing sciences through the study of a clinical case in a simulated environment". In the year 2022, the SEBBM awarded the prize for the best education poster "Development of the STEAM model in the teaching and learning of Basic Health Sciences"