Sandra Sánchez defended her doctoral thesis “New biocompatible polymer membranes functionalized with graphene based nanomaterials for in vitro neural models”, that was supervised by Prof. Ane Urtiaga and Dr. Nazely Diban. The defense took place on March 1st, 2019 in the University of Cantabria. The evaluation committee was formed by Prof. Inmaculada Ortiz (University of Cantabria); Dr. Reyes Mallada (University of Zaragoza) and Dr. Loredana de Bartolo (National Research Council of Italy).