Cristina Gomez-Navarro is a professor at the Condensed Matter Department, Faculty of Science, at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain and serves as Steering committee of the Condensed Matter Physics Center (IFIMAC).

Her research is focus on electrical and mechanical properties of low dimensional materials and Scanning Probe Microscopy related techniques. A particular focus on controlled introduction of atomic scale defects in 2D materials and their related properties has been the topic for her research during the past decade.

She completed her PhD at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 2005, then moved to the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research where she was awarded with a Humbold fellowship. Since 2009 she co-leads the Nanoforces Lab at UAM.