Jorge Bernardino de la Serna

Dr Bernardino de la Serna is a Senior Lecturer in Inhalation Toxicology and Pharmacology, fellow of the Royal Microscopic Society (FRMS), and the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB). He holds a Bachelor degree in Chemistry, and two Master Degrees, one in Chemistry and another in Biochemistry. He was awarded his PhD at the University Complutense of Madrid (Spain) working in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology under the supervision of Prof. Perez-Gil. He did his first postdoc in the Center for BioMembrane Physics (MEMPHYS) at the University of Southern Denmark with Prof. Mouritsen and Dr. Bagatolli. For a short period as a visiting scientist, while employed at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom), he was trained in super-resolution fluorescence microscopy at Prof. S. Hell’s (Nobel Laureate, 2014) laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen (Germany). In the MRC-Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford (United Kingdom), he did his second postdoc with Prof. Eggeling. Thereafter, he took a Staff Scientist role at the United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI), working in the Central Laser Facility at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory before he joined the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London (United Kingdom). At the airways disease section, he leads the Mechanisms of Inhalation Toxicology, Physiopathology and Pharmacology (MITP2) group. At the MITP2 the research is markedly multidisciplinary: Synthetic Biology, Biophysics, Molecular Cell Biology, Molecular Immunology, Nanomedicine and Drug Delivery, Photonics and Quantitative 4D Fluorescence Bioimaging, Organ-on-a-chip and microfluidics.