Dr Roger Rubio Sánchez

Roger completed his BSc in Biotechnology Engineering at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Mexico City (2015). He moved to Cambridge UK in 2017 to read for an MRes in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology as part of the Centre for Doctoral Training NanoDTC programme, through which he then obtained a PhD in Physics from the Cavendish Laboratory (2021). He continued his research through two postdoctoral appointments, first at Imperial College London (Department of Chemistry) and later back at the University of Cambridge (Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology).

Roger's work has involved studying the biophysical principles that govern the spatial and temporal organisation of membranes, with the goal of constructing DNA nanostructures that could mimic the form and function of cell-surface machinery. By applying his membrane-active DNA nano-devices, Roger engineers advanced functionalities in synthetic cell-like objects, which are useful as models for fundamental research and hold great potential as next-generation biomedical platforms.

Since 2023, he has been an independent Research Fellow (BBSRC Discovery Fellow) hosted at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge. Roger is also the coordinator and lecturer of the Bionanotechnology course, taught as part of the MRes in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and MPhil in Micro and Nanotechnology Enterprise programmes.