Nerea Lete was born in 1994 in Bilbao, Spain. She obtained her Bachelor's Degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of the Basque Country in 2017, followed by a Master's Degree in Nanoscience and Nanothechnology from the University of Barcelona in 2018. That year she started working on her PhD studies under the supervision of Dr. Alfredo García Arribas and Dr. David de Cos at the Department of Electricity and Electronics of the University of the Basque Country with a grant awarded by the Basque Government (ref. PRE_2018_1_0252).

Her studies involve the fabrication of microfluidic channels that incorporate magnetic sensors for the study and detection of magnetotactic bacteria.