Personal website: https://www.nanociencia.imdea.org/intracellular-temperature-measurements/home

Cristina Sánchez Carrizo studied her Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). In 2021, she obtained her MSc degree in Applied Chemistry with a specialization in Computational and Materials Chemistry at the same university. She carried out her Master’s project at IMDEA Nanociencia under the supervision of Dr. Sebastián Thompson, working on the synthesis of nanocomplexes capable of simultaneously generating and measuring heat for potential cancer treatment applications.

She later joined the same group as a research assistant for two years, further developing her research experience in nanothermometry and bio-nanotechnology. Currently, she is pursuing her PhD at IMDEA Nanociencia within the Applied Chemistry program of Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, also under the supervision of Dr. Sebastián Thompson. Her research focuses on developing extracellular nanothermometers using clinically approved dyes and serum proteins to enable non-invasive tumor temperature imaging and improve photothermal therapies.

Luis Martínez Ceseña studied Physics at the Autonomous University of Baja California (2021) and later completed the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degree in Nuclear Physics (2024).

He conducted his master’s thesis at the Laboratori Nazionali del Sud (LNS-INFN) in Catania, under the supervision of Dr. Giorgio Russo and Francesco Cammarata, where he investigated the radiosensitizing effects of specific molecules in glioblastoma.He has also worked at CREATIS (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1), contributing to the numerical modeling of the radiative transfer equation for fluorescence-guided glioblastoma surgery.

He is currently a PhD researcher at IMDEA Nanoscience, focusing on nanoscale intracellular temperature measurements for biomedical applications.Throughout his research career, he has gained multidisciplinary experience in glioblastoma research, approaching the problem from multiple perspectives—including magnetic hyperthermia, radiotherapy, and advanced radiative-transfer simulations for optical guidance in neurosurgery.