Amaia Zúñiga Ripa

Amaia Zúñiga Ripa is a professional researcher affiliated with the Department of Microbiology and Parasitology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Navarra. She specializes in Brucella-Brucellosis research, focusing on bacterial intracellular life cycles, central carbon metabolism, and trafficking mechanisms.

Her doctoral thesis, titled A study on some aspects of brucella intracellular life: central carbon metabolism and trafficking (2011), was supervised by Dr. Maite Iriarte and Dr. Ignacio Moriyón Uría. While no scientific awards are listed in the provided data, her work contributes to understanding pathogen-host interactions in zoonotic diseases.