Aitor Casas Sanchez gained a BSc in Molecular Biotechnology from the University of Barcelona in 2013, after carrying out his BSc thesis at Trinity College Dublin. In 2018, he obtained a PhD in Molecular Parasitology from the University of Liverpool based at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), funded by the EU-FP7 Marie Skłodowska Curie GlycoPar ITN. Aitor continued his career as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at LSTM and University of Liverpool, working on several Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council-funded projects. In 2020 he started working on his own-funded projects before becoming a Lecturer at LSTM in 2023.

Aitor supervises PhD, MRes, MSc, and BSc students. He has extensive teaching experience at LSTM where he lectures in several courses (BSc, MSc, and Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene) on molecular virology, virus and parasite genetic engineering, molecular parasitology, and bioinformatics, including laboratory practical sessions. Aitor has also taught outside LSTM at Imperial College London, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and at the world-renowned MBL Biology of Parasitism course in Woods Hole (USA) from 2021 to 2023. Aitor is currently co-directing the MSc molecular module at LSTM.