Nina Cortina

Niña, co-founder and head of Research and Systems Integration at LiVeritas Biosciences, is an expert in small molecule mass spectrometry and data analytics. With experience spanning over 15 years, including as a Team Leader, she has been principally involved in research at the Buchmann Institute, Helmholtz Association, and Max Planck Society in the fields of metabolomics, microbial natural product discovery, biomolecular chemistry, and synthetic biology. Her extensive record of accomplishments is reflected by publications in a variety of high-impact journals, including Nature and Science.

She holds a Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) in the field of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology from Saarland University / Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research – Saarland, as well as an M.S. in Chemistry and a B.S. in both Chemistry and Computer Engineering (Honors Program) from the Ateneo de Manila University. When not developing workflows, Niña is an amateur baker, an avid food and landscape photographer, and a novice aquarelle painter.