Iria Carballo studied Biology at the University of Oviedo (Spain), where she also obtained her Master degree (D.E.A.). She got her Ph.D. degree in 2009 at the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research (University of Tuebingen, Germany), working under the supervision of Prof. Philipp Kahle on the identification of signal transduction pathways mediated by LRRK2 in Parkinson’s disease. She joined our group in April 2009.