Laura Ceballos

Laura Ceballos obtained her DDS in 1997 and her PhD in 2001 at University of Granada in Spain. During her PhD formation she stayed abroad at the University of Texas, Health Science Center in San Antonio, at the School of Dentistry, Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, and at the Bauru School of Dentistry, University of Sao Paulo. As post-doctoral fellow researcher she
broadened her skills at the Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal.

In 2003, she moved to Madrid, as Interim Associate Professor, to teach Dental Materials in the newly created Degree in Dentistry at the Rey Juan Carlos University. In the following years, she added Dental Pathology and Conservative Dentistry to her teaching duties, while being promoted to Associate Professor in 2007 (Profesor Titular de Universidad) and Full Professor in 2019 (Catedrático de Universidad). She founded a postgraduate course of “Expert in Esthetic Dentistry” in 2007, that ran until 2015 and, also, a Master in Esthetic Restorative Dentistry and Endodontics
that began in 2009. Recently, she founded a Research Group, named IDIBO (Development and Research in Dental Biomaterials https://gestion2.urjc.es/pdi/grupos-investigacion/idibo), with the Rey Juan
Carlos University official recognition.

She has focused her research activity on the field of Adhesive Dentistry, including laboratorial and clinical studies. Her publications can be conferred at https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6024-9559. Many of them are related to doctoral theses that she supervised and have been presented mainly at IADR meetings, ConsEuro meetings, also those organized by SEOC (Spanish Society of Conservative Dentistry). She was member of the Board, Vice-President or President of SEOC.

She is also part of the Executive Commission of the European Federation of Conservative Dentistry (EFCD) on behalf of SEOC. She has actively participated in the organization of different congresses, the last one being the CED-IADR/NOF Meeting celebrated in Madrid in 2019. She is member of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR), Continental European Section, since 2001.

Last, but not least, she is hopefully managing to combine her professional activities with her family life, as a proud mother of four.