Dr. Maribel Adame is the Director of Operations of the Institute of Biology. She has extensive managerial experience in academia, the private sector and non-governmental organizations. Until August 2024, she was the Research Manager at the Institute of Biology. From 2013 to 2018, she worked at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, managing European and Dutch-funded research projects. Before that, she worked as a Senior Healthcare Community Manager at the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland, and she has held different positions in the private sector. She worked as Product Marketing Manager at Nucletron and Medis Medical Imaging Systems, and as Clinical Education Specialist at GE Healthcare, building the bridge between people, technology and healthcare. She holds an MSc in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Seville in Spain (2002), a PhD in Medical Imaging from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands (2007), and an MBA from the University of Liverpool in the UK (2015).

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