Raquel Rouco

Raquel Rouco earned her degree in Biology in 2013 from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), where she also began her research career in the field of genetics. In 2014, she obtained a Master’s degree in Biomedicine from the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). That same year, she began her PhD at the Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC) in the laboratory of Miguel Manzanares. During her doctoral studies, she contributed to understanding the genetic mechanisms underlying atrial fibrillation, the most common cardiac arrhythmia. Raquel carried out part of her doctoral work at the University of Michigan (UMICH) in José Jalife’s lab, which earned her an International PhD in Molecular Biosciences in 2019.

In search of new horizons, she moved to Switzerland in 2019 to join Guillaume Andrey’s lab at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), where she currently works as a postdoctoral researcher. Her research focuses on unraveling the regulatory steps involved in normal development and understanding how disruptions in any of them can lead to diseases and malformations.

Since 2021, Raquel has served as Vice President of the Association of Spanish Scientists in the Swiss Confederation (ACECH).