On 6 November 2026, María da Silva Relvas defended her PhD thesis, “Development of Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Substrates for Minimally Invasive Patient Diagnosis and Monitoring”, at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, within the Doctoral Programme in Materials Science of the International Doctoral School of the USC. María carried out her research in the Medical Devices group led by Dr. Lorena Diéguez at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL). The thesis was supervised by Dr. Sara Abalde-Cela, Dr. Lorena Diéguez and Dr. Pablo del Pino, who was also her tutor at the USC.

The thesis committee was formed by Dr. Laura Rodríguez-Lorenzo (INL, President), Dr. Sergio Gómez-Graña (CINBIO-UVigo, Member) and Dr. Pablo Taboada Antelo (USC-iMATUS, Secretary).

Congratulations, Dr. Relvas!