Fernández Caballero Fariñas, Mª Dolores

Lola Fariñas is a postdoctoral research fellow 'Juan de la Cierva-incorporación' at the Spanish National Research Council (ITEFI-CSIC). She holds a PhD and a MSc in Biomedical Engineering from the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) and her research focuses on the characterization of complex materials and process monitoring. Her differential value is the multidisciplinary approach to each problem and the use of novel ultrasonic technologies. Her research work has taken her to numerous international institutions such as MIT, the University of Glasgow, Harvard University, UPV or the University of California. In addition, she has also worked in the private sector at the NDT industry and in a startup powered by Google as a data scientist. In the scientific field, she has been awarded with several fellowships and grants (FPI, excellence fellow of La Residencia de Estudiantes, Spanish representative of the 66th Meeting of Nobel Laureates, Juan de la Cierva-formación, EIT-Climate fellow, Ikerbasque Research Fellow...). In the transference field, she has collaborated in some patents, has been selected by the Choiseul Institute for its annual ranking on two occasions and has promoted a deep-tech spin-off project that was awarded in the acceleration program The Collider (Mobile World Capital). Moreover, she actively collaborates in scientific outreach initiatives.