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Dr Aurora J. Cruz-Cabeza
Head of PdOC (Post-docs of Cambridge) Society
Email: cruz@ccdc.cam.ac.uk
Aurora is a postdoctoral research associate at "The Pfizer Institute for Pharmaceutical Materials Sciences", a research based collaboration between the University of Cambridge, the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) and Pfizer. Her research lies in the study of crystal structures and properties of materials with pharmaceutical applications. Aurora is currently based at the CCDC, is the head of PdOC society and a research associate at Sidney Sussex College.
Aurora first arrived in Cambridge in 2003 as a graduate student and did her PhD with Prof. William Jones and Dr Graeme Day at the Chemistry Department. After working for Pfizer for a while, Aurora just recently returned to Cambridge to continue her academic research in Pharmaceutical Materials Sciences.