Marta Domínguez-Álvaro

Domínguez-Álvaro is a graduate student at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, in Spain, where she works in the Cajal Laboratory of Cortical Circuits in the Center for Biomedical Technology.

She earned her bachelor’s degree at the Autonomous University of Madrid. Her master’s thesis research comprised a study of the synaptic organization in the normal human cerebral cortex and synaptic alterations in Alzheimer’s disease. As a doctoral student in her final year, she has significantly contributed to the determination of the synaptic characteristics of the transentorhinal and entorhinal cortex at the ultrastructural level.