Nidia Maldonado-Carmona is a mexican scientist. She did her undergraduate studies in Pharmaceutical Biological Chemistry at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She enrolled into the Master’s Program in Biochemical Sciences at the same University. During her training at Mexico she became interested in the use of chemistry and biochemistry to afford molecules and therapies to be used against microorganisms. She then became part of the Innovative Training Network POLYTHEA, obtaining a double joint PhD from the Université de Limoges (France) and the Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal), for her research on bio-sourced delivery systems for photosensitizing molecules to be used against bacterial infections. Continuing with this line of interest, she joined Sorbonne Université as part of the consortium Light4Lungs, aiming for the disinfection of bacterial biofilms inside the lungs. As a result, she has participated in several publications, while also presenting in several international conferences. When presenting her work at the LatinXChem 2023 virtual conference she got the prize for best poster prize in the #LatinXChemBio category and the prize for the best Earlier Career Work. 

Nidia’s main interest is to find nature-inspired novel strategies for an efficient disinfection, while avoiding antimicrobial resistance. In this stance, PhotoDynamic Therapy is her main interest and her foreseen subject of study in the next few years. With wide experience in organic chemistry, biochemistry, microbiology and photophysics, she embraces the diversity of fields and nationalities, taking the best out of it. She’s commited on scientific communication and as result, she also received a prize at the Pre-Clinical Science Cathegory in the International Photodynamic Association 2021 Photogenic Science Contest, for her photo “Nano Death”.

On her free time she enjoys gardening, reading, playing video games and petting her cats.