Vanesa Manzaneda graduated in Chemistry at the University Complutense de Madrid in 2017. She performed her graduation research at the Nano&Supramolecular laboratory, belonging to the same university, in the reconstitution of membrane proteins in gold nanoparticles coated with a lipid bilayer. She received her Master degree in Chemical Science and Technology working on the synthesis and functionalization of gold nanoparticles for cell endosomal escape studies (2018). As a fruit of a collaborative effort, she joined the Optical Nanomanipulation Laboratory as a PhD student. Her research interests are focused on the physical-chemical study of nanoparticles confining heat or light and on the biophysical study of the action mechanisms of nanoparticles in cells and DNA/RNA binding drugs in key sequences associated to tumour propagation.