Iris joined the University of Bath Department of Life Sciences as a Senior Lecturer in January 2025, where she leads the NanoImmunology and Molecular Pharmaceutics group. She is also a Course Director in Nanomedicine at the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education and a freelance Senior Innovation Strategy Consultant. From 2021 to 2024, she was a “La Caixa” Junior Leader and Senior Researcher at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) in Barcelona, Spain. From 2017 to 2020, she was a joint Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) at the University of Cambridge Engineering and Medicine departments. In 2019, she co-founded the non-profit organisation Women Ahead of Their Time (WATT) CIC and she also joined the University of Cambridge Peterhouse College as a Research Associate. From 2014 to 2017, she worked as a joint PDRA at MedImmune/AstraZeneca and University of Cambridge Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology department, followed by a brief experience as a healthcare/pharmaceutical competitive intelligence consultant. Her research interests and expertise lie in medical and pharmaceutical R&D, particularly nanomedicine, bio-inspired materials, downstream processing, formulation, and drug delivery.
