María Llorens-Martín#
| Membership Number: | 5940 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
| Homepage(s): | https://portalcientifico.uam.es/ipublic/agent-personal/profile/iMarinaID/04-278968 |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-9129-5198 |
| Twitter: | @LlorensLab |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021, Nov Tenured senior researcher position under the Científico titular program, Spanish Research Council, CBMSO, program of Physiological and Pathological Processes, Neuropathology Unit, Madrid, Spain
- 2017 - 2021 Assistant Professor, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), ‘Ramón y Cajal’ tenure-track excellence program. Faculty of Sciences, Department of Molecular Biology, Spain
- 2015 Postdoctoral Researcher, The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) postdoctoral fellowship. Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan
- 2014 - 2016 ‘Juan de la Cierva’ national excellence program, postdoctoral researcher. CBMSO, Molecular Neuropathology department, Madrid, Spain
- 2010 - 2013 ‘JAE_DOC2009’ national excellence program, postdoctoral researcher. CBMSO, Molecular Neuropathology department, Madrid, Spain
- 2009 - 2010 Postdoctoral researcher, Excellence Network Centre for Biomedical Research on Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED), Spain
- 2005 - 2008 ‘JAE_PRE2004’ national predoctoral fellowship excellence program. Cajal Institute, Spain
- 2004 ‘Beca de Introducción a la investigación de último curso’ national undergraduate student fellowship excellence program. Cajal Institute, Spain
- 2003 ‘Beca de Introducción a la investigación de penúltimo curso’ national undergraduate student fellowship excellence program. Cajal Institute, Spain
Fields of Scholarship
- Neurodegenerative diseases
- Brain plasticity
- Hippocampus
- Alzheimer´s disease
- Adult neurogenesis
Honours and Awards
- 2009 Extraordinary award ‘Best Doctoral Dissertation’ award, UCM, Madrid, Spain
- 2013 Young Investigator Award, CBMSO, Madrid, Spain
- 2013 National Young Investigator Award, CIBERNED, Spain
- 2019 ‘Miguel Catalán’ Young Investigator Award for Scientific Research, Madrid, Spain
- 2019 Young Female Talent in Biology, Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences
- 2021 Full Member, Spanish Young Academy
