Belén V. Martínez Gualda, Graduate in Chemistry (2012, University of Murcia) and Master's degree in fine and molecular Chemistry (2013, University of Murcia). During summer 2012 she worked in the clinical analysis Microlab.

In Jannuary 2014 joined the group of Nucleosides and Analogues with a FPI contract, under the supervision of Prof. María José Camarasa and Dr. Ana Rosa San-Félix, to carry out the experimental work to get a PhD, in the development of lectin mimetics as inhibitors of HIV-1 replication. .