Maria Emilia Dueñas

Maria Emilia was born in Quito, Ecuador. She completed her B.S. in chemistry at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito in 2013. In 2018, she obtained her Ph.D. degree in analytical chemistry from Iowa State University after working in Dr. Young Jin Lee’s group. Her research focused on advancing the field of metabolomics using high-spatial resolution MALDI mass spectrometry imaging. Maria Emilia is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at Newcastle University in Dr. Matthias Trost’s lab. She is developing MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry techniques to characterize metabolites in high-throughput cellular drug discovery assays. Outside the lab, she enjoys trail and fell running.