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 was part of the Executive Commission of the

European Federation of Conservative Dentistry (EFCD) on behalf

of SEOC. Finally, she is the current president of the

Continental European Division of the IADR.