Mikel obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology in 2017 at the University of Zaragoza. Following his interest in the field of biophysics, he pursued a Master’s degree in Quantitative Biotechnology at the Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (University of Zaragoza). With this background, in 2019 he joins Fernando Moreno’s lab at the Spanish National Centre for Biotechnology as a PhD Student.

His work is focused on using Atomic Force Microscopy, with the final aim of building an atomic force microscope which combines TIRF optical microscopy.