Celia is a PhD student of the TME lab at the Aragon Engineering Research Institute (I3A), University of Zaragoza (Spain), focused on the development and validation of a microfluidic blood-brain barrier model. 

She studied Human Biology at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). In her Final Project, she investigated the variations of antigenic presentation in human cancer cells at the Cancer Stem Cells and Metastasis Dynamics Laboratory (IMIM- Barcelona). Subsequently, she completed the Master in Multidisciplinary Research in Experimental Sciences at Pompeu Fabra University. She carried out her Major Project in Innate Immune Biology (IRB- Barcelona) studying the effect of environmental changes on the immunogenic activity of dendritic cells. She also carried out an Interdisciplinary Project at the Biosensors for Bioengineering Laboratory (IBEC- Barcelona) where she had her first contact with microfluidics. She designed and fabricated a microfluidic device for parallel culture of dendritic cells in several environmental conditions. This project, together with her desire to standardize research methods, awakened her curiosity for the development of strategies to simulate the physiology and recapitulate the complexity of organs and tissues in vitro.