President of SRUK/CERU
Sara holds a degree in Biotechnology at the University of León (Spain) and two Master’s Degrees, one in Advanced Microbiology (University of Barcelona) and another in Quality Management and Safety in the Food Industry (Madrid’s Institute of Training, Spain). She obtained her PhD in plant pathology at the University of Turin (Italy) in 2019, where she specialised in the development of new molecular techniques for the diagnosis of plant pests. She did her first postdoc at Newcastle University working on a project in partnership with Syngenta UK, followed by two other postdoc positions at the University of York, working with plant pathogens and exploiting biocontrol methods, or plant resistance mechanisims to minimise yield losses and to understand bacterial long-term evolution during disease. She is now a Reserch and Development Fellow at DEFRA.
