Amanda Sierra is an Ikerbasque Research Professor at the Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of the Basque Country EHU/UPV. She is the director of the Glial Cell Biology Lab, where her group studies the bidirectional communication between neurons and microglia, the brain phagocytes, in the healthy and diseased brain. She has served as Secretary and Vicepresident of the Spanish Society for Neuroscience (SENC), and as a board member of the Spanish Glial Network. Currently, she is part of the editorial board of the journal Glia and a member of the Life Science Office (vocalía 3) of the Spanish Confederation of Scientific Societies (COSCE).