
Yensi Flores Bueso
Molecular Biologist UCC
Yensi Flores Bueso is a passionate Molecular Biologist working in Synthetic Biology for developing Cancer Treatments at the CancerResearch@UCC labs. She recently secured a Marie Curie Postdoctoral fellowship to immerse herself in the field of in-silico protein design at the Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington, Seattle. Yensi also engages in projects that promote inclusion, diversity, equality and access (IDEA) in academia, through science outreach and communication, and through science policy. As a member of the Global Young Academy, she leads and collaborates in international projects that promote IDEA through science education (with special focus at building capacity in countries with weaker scientific institutions and also through initiatives that challenge the concept of Scientific Excellence and current research assessment systems. She is a steering board member of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA).