The team
Anna Ballesteros
Research Chemist
Anna joined Asparia in 2023 as a Research Chemist within the Glycobiology and Analytical Chemistry teams.
She is mainly involved in the production of purified reference standards and glycopeptides for glycan analysis and glycoproteomics workflows. Her work also includes the large scale isolation and purification of glycans and glycopeptides from natural sources.
Anna holds a degree in Chemistry from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain) and a Master of Science degree in Industrial Chemistry from the same University. In 2022 she completed her PhD work at CIC BiomaGUNE (Spain), where she developed new methodologies for the isolation of N-glycans from natural sources and their derivatisation.
Niels Reichardt
Founder and CEO
Leyre Aramendia
Research Biochemist
Ane Rodrigo
Sales & Marketing Manager
Leticia Pardo
Project Manager & Senior Research Chemist
Francisco Gonzalez
Research Chemist
Anna Ballesteros
Research Chemist
Antoine Lesur
Head of Analytics
Amaiur Odriozola
Senior Research Chemist
Itziar Otazo
Senior Research Chemist