Román was born in Logroño (La Rioja), Spain, in 1996. He obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry at Universidad de La Rioja in 2019. In the last year of his degree, he worked on the stereoselective synthesis of non-proteinogenic amino acids, under the supervision of Alberto Avenoza Aznar.

In 2020 he obtained the Master’s Degree in Drug Discovery by Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares and Universidad San Pablo CEU. During this year, he carried out a research project aimed at the discovery of new antiparasitic drugs at the CSIC Institute of Medicinal Chemistry (Madrid) under the supervision of Dr. Christophe Dardonville.

In 2021 he joined the Medicinal Chemistry Laboratory to carry out his PhD under the supervision of Professors Silvia Ortega and Henar Vázquez.