Laura Asensio holds a degree in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (Autonomous University of Barcelona-UAB, 2016) and two masters. The first, in Molecular Biology (University of Barcelona, 2017) and the second, in Omics Data Analysis (University of Vic, 2019). She is currently enrolled in the Biomedicine PhD program at the University of Barcelona. Before finishing her degree, she started working in the Department of Condensed Matter Physics (UB) until 2017, working in the biophysical research field, where she was directly involved in both biological samples preparation of RNA molecules and proteins, and the realization of single-molecule experiments using optical tweezers. After finishing her master in Data Analysis she joined the Laboratory of Infections and Cancer (INCALAB) in the Cancer Epidemiology Research Program (PREC) to perform her PhD thesis. During this time, she participated in different projects to give bioinformatics support, analysing different types of data as DNA microarrays for gene expression and whole-genome sequences from human and viral samples. Her thesis topic is the mechanism of HPV genome variants in cancer progression. To study this topic in-depth, she is currently working on the analysis of HPV sequences and the human genome. She is also learning about innovative sequencing tools such as Nanopore, to apply them in the lab.