Senior Lecturer
Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom
Dr Alejandro J. Paredes is a Pharmacist by training (2011) and holds a PhD (2016), both degrees from the National University of Córdoba, Argentina. He is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Pharmacy at Queen’s University Belfast, where he leads a research group focused on controlled and targeted drug delivery using nanocrystals. Dr Paredes is a named inventor in two patents, has authored more than 90 peer-reviewed articles, and is the editor of two textbooks. He has obtained prestigious grants (>£3 million) from the EPSRC, the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Royal Society, the NI Department for Economy, and Applied Microbiology International. In 2024 he received the Emerging Scientist Award from the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences (UK) and a Springboard Award from the Academy of Medical Sciences (UK). Alejandro is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK) and CICOPS (Italy), an active member of various scientific societies where he contributes in different capacities, and an editorial board member of Materials Today Bio, AAPS PharmSciTech, and Drug Delivery and Translational Research.