Doctor of Medicine and Surgery (1991) from the UPV/EHU and Professor at the University (1995). Currently, Professor of “Human Anatomy” in the Physiotherapy degree; and “Neurosciences” in two master’s degrees: Neurosciences; and Molecular Biology and Biomedicine.

During my training period at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Santiago de Compostela I centered my interest in electrophysiology. After graduating in Medicine and Surgery I did my Doctoral Thesis in the Department of Neurosciences of the UPV/EHU on Neuroanatomy of the Visual System in 1991. I made several stays in research centers (Max Planck Institutes of Frankfurt and Göttingen and Center of Neurobiology of UNAM-Mexico) to deepen in electrophysiological techniques of unit registration, multiunit and chemical or electrical stimulation. Since its inception, I have been part of the Neurobiology Laboratory of the Department of Neurosciences of the University of the Basque Country. My work consists, in particular, in the maintenance and utilization of the infrastructures for electrophysiological studies of the research group, that cover a wide spectrum of techniques: unitary channel record, current / voltage setting in cells in culture, organotypic or in slices, CAP's in isolated optic nerves, visual evoked potentials, motor potentials and heterologous protein expression in Xenopus laevis oocytes.

Our research group belongs to the national network CIBERNED since 2007 and to the European consortium Nanostroke funded by the ERANET program.

My research interest is the molecular mechanisms involved in the death of neurons and glial cells in neurodegenerative diseases, multiple sclerosis and cerebral ischemia. These topics are studied with the aim of discovering new molecular targets against which to develop new drug therapies.