M. Teresa González got her Bachelor Degree (1996) and her PhD in Physics (2003) at the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela in Spain. She joined IMDEA-Nanociencia in 2008 as Ramón y Cajal researcher after a four-year postdoctoral stay at Universität Basel in Christian Schönenberger’s group in Switzerland. She has worked in different fields including superconductivity, during is PhD research, molecular electronics, and, since 2016, the development of new nanostructured interfaces to interact with the nervous tissue. While she continues her research in the molecular electronics field, she is presently head of IMDEA Neural Interfaces Laboratory.