
Marisa Martin-Fernandez
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
Biography
Marisa Martin-Fernandez is Head of the Functional Biosystems Imaging Group, Central Laser Facility, Science & Technology Facilities Council, Dr Martin-Fernandez received a degree in Physics from the Autonomous University of Madrid, and her PhD in biophysics at the University of Keele. After several postdoctoral research appointments she was appointed Principal Scientist at the Science and Technology Research Council in 2002. She has run a research group since 2003 with a focus on developing novel instrumentation and methods to improve our understanding of cancer at the molecular level and to exploit these instruments to derive models of anti-cancer drug-induced behaviour.