André Pérez Potti

Graduated in Biology from the University of Vigo (UVigo, 2012). He received his master's degree in Bio-Nano Interactions at University College Dublin (UCD, 2013) and pursued his doctoral studies at the Center for BioNano Interactions (CBNI) at the same institution (UCD, 2017) under the supervision of Prof. Kenneth A. Dawson, where he focused on determining mechanisms and pathways of interaction between different types of inorganic nanoparticles with the innate and adaptive immune systems, both in vitro and in vivo.

After a period as a postdoctoral researcher in the same group, in 2019 he joined the Center for Infectious Medicine (CIM) at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden (KI). There, he conducted studies on the heterogeneity and functional diversity of circulating and tissue-resident T lymphocytes in different models of chronic and acute viral infections, establishing molecular profiles associated with various functional states of T lymphocytes. Among these, the studies on the cellular response to SARS-CoV-2 stand out.

In 2023, he joined the Singular Research Center in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Materials (CIQUS, University of Santiago de Compostela) as a postdoctoral researcher. Since 2023, he has been a Ramón y Cajal researcher in the Bionanotools group at CIQUS (2021 call, linked to the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), where he works studying mechanisms of interaction between multifunctional nanoparticles and their capacities to modulate specific ex vivo T lymphocytes based on their biomolecular characteristics.