Dr Maria Sole Lancerin
Maria Sole is a Research Associate in Professor Ray Owens’s group, where she works on the Disease X project. Her research focuses on translating the group’s structural and molecular findings into functional validation on viruses and viral models.
She earned her PhD in Infection Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, completing a highly interdisciplinary project that integrated classical virology, analytical chemistry, and cyanobacterial biology. Maria Sole previously obtained her Master’s degree in Medical Biotechnologies and her Bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology from the University of Padova.
When not at the bench, Maria Sole enjoys narrative fiction, hikes, role-playing games, and tending to an ever-expanding collection of tropical plants.
