Paloma Aivar Mateo

Paloma Aivar Mateo


About me

eaching and Research Fellow at the Complutense University of Madrid in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.
She holds a degree in Biochemistry from the Autonomous University of Madrid (2003) and completed her doctoral thesis in Dr. Villarroel's laboratory at the Biophysics Unit-CSIC joint center at the University of the Basque Country, studying the molecular mechanisms of membrane trafficking of KCNQ2 channels (2008).

Joined the faculty of the European University of Madrid from 2014 to 2023, she has extensive teaching experience in biochemistry and molecular biology for various degree programs, including Pharmacy, Biomedicine, Nursing, and Biotechnology. She has led innovative teaching projects as principal investigator. 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 2022, the Spanish Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SEBBM) awarded her the award for the best educational poster for her work "Development of the STEAM Model in the Teaching and Learning of Basic Health Sciences."
Her research experience has always been linked to the field of neuroscience and focused on the molecular and circuit bases of neurodegenerative diseases such as epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease. She is co-author of 12 scientific articles and has participated in more than 10 projects, having received recognition for two six-year research periods (ANECA). She is currently a member of Dr. Miguel Díaz Hernández's research team at the Complutense University, leading research focused on identifying the molecular mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative processes in order to find new, effective therapeutic strategies to combat these diseases. Committed to scientific outreach, she participates in various initiatives.

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