School: Umeå University

Sophia Hernandez is a PhD student in molecular biology at Umea University, Sweden. She continues to investigate the Plasmodium parasite through research grants from EMBO and the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Valerie Valeriano is a research engineer at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. Currently, she is working on developing a culturomics platform for women’s health and oncobiomics.

Valerie Diane Valeriano is a molecular infection biologist whose research focuses on the understanding of the transmission dynamics of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes.