Dr. Danaí Montalván Sorrosa is a Chemist-Bacteriologist and Parasitologist from the National School of Biological Sciences (National Polytechnic Institute). She obtained her Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences at the Cellular Physiology Institute (National Autonomous University of Mexico) under the supervision of Prof. Rolando Castillo Caballero and Prof. Jaime Mas Oliva (2016). She did a postdoctoral stay in the group of Professor Vinothan Manoharan at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (2017-2021). She has developed bionanomaterials using filamentous viruses and worked on the rheology of viral liquid crystals, the self-assembly of peptides, and the biological and clinical applications of Raman spectroscopy. Recently, she has focused on developing artificial cells, colloidal self-assembly via DNA interactions, and the dynamics of colloidal particles in thermotropic liquid crystals.