Bio

Born and brought up in India, studied Materials Chemistry at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (India) and finished his Ph.D. (2006) from National Physical laboratory in the field of Materials chemistry. Subsequently he moved to the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, as Alexander von Humboldt Fellow to work on surface and interface studies of electrodeposited layers in ionic liquids by scanning probe microscopy. He was a regular visitor at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, where he developed nanoporous films for metal-free electro-catalysis and new redox shuttle. In 2011 he accepted the offer as program head of new concept in photovoltaics and advanced materials and was the strategic hire for the Abengoa Research, a corporate research center of multinational energy based conglomerate Abengoa. He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, and recently his work was endorsed by European research council consolidator grant (2016). He is the inventor of 7 patents, his work has been summarized in >100 articles, along with many popular science artilces, and the publications list reflects his diverse field of interest in the domain of physical chemistry, nanotechnology and materials science. In summer 2017, he accepted the call from Ikerbasque to work as senior professor at Basque center for materials, applications and Nanostructures.

Interests and objetives
His research targets are advanced materials development for energy conversion, conservation and storage materials application.

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Dr. Jacopo Andreo received his M.Sc. in Chemistry in 2016 from the University of Turin and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from The University of Parma, with a thesis on cobalt and palladium coordination complexes with zwitterionic ligands. He is currently working at the BCMaterial with Prof. Stefan Wuttke, focusing on the synthesis and characterization of conductive MOFs and hierarchical materials.

Mikel Anzola Martínez graduated in Physics in 2020 at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). His degree thesis, “An alternative manner of calculating Wannier functions”, focused on the simulation of electronic structures with tools such as Quantum Espresso.

Subsequently, he finished his master degree in Quantum Science and Technologies in 2021 at the University of the Basque Country with a thesis named “Ab initio treatment of the electron-phonon interaction and anisotropic superconductivity” using the EPW project code.

After a change of focus for a more experimental approach he is currently working on his PhD about nanomagnetism and artificial spin-ice at BCMaterials.

Expertise
Crystal engineering, X-ray and neutron scattering, structure study, materials for fuel cells and batteries, crystal structure and properties relationship, project management.

Bio
Maria Isabel Arriortua’s (PhD 1981, UPV/EHU) interest in materials chemistry dates back to her work in the University of Loveine-la-Neuve, where she did part of her PhD thesis. Upon returning to the University of the Basque Country, she set up the Crystallography group at this university and her work has resulted in more than 300 scientific articles (H-index: 40) and she has supervised 17 PhD Thesis. Since 1992 she has been Full Professor of Crystallography and Mineralogy at UPV/EHU and director of the UPV/EHU Advanced Research Facilities (SGIker) since its creation. She has been awarded with the Euskadi research award in Science and Technology in 2010 and coordinated the Materials Science and Technology area for the National Evaluation and Foresight Agency (ANEP) of the Spanish Government from 2010 to 2014. Nowadays she is member of the expert committee for the design of Basic Strategic Lines of Science, Technology and Innovation for the Basque Government and academic of Jakiunde, Basque Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters since 2012. She is PI of projects related with mass and/or energy generation and storage materials, focussed on the relationship between crystal structure and properties.

Interests and objetives
Principal Investigator of proyects related with mass and/or energy generation and storage, with focus on the relationship between crystal structure and properties:
“Development of advanced materials for the generation, storage and liberation of energy”(MINECO, MAT2013-42092-R).
“Multifunctional materials for mass and energy storage and transport”(Gobierno Vasco, IT-630-13)
Director of the UPV/EHU Advanced Research Facilities (SGIker).
Member of the Basque Government Scientific Advisory Committe.

Curriculum Vitae

Leixuri Baños Berganza graduated in Chemistry in 2018 at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). Her degree thesis was on “Synthesis of amides by metal-catalyzed aerobic oxidizing methods” at the Organic Chemistry Group of the Faculty of Science and Technology of Leioa.

Afterwards, she finished her master’s degree in Forensic Analysis in 2019 at the University of the Basque Country with a thesis based on the study of the polymorphism of different comercial drugs by X-ray diffraction, carried out in the Crystallography Group of the Faculty of Science and Technology of Leioa.

Currently, she is working on the project “Nanoparticle and Smart polymer composites for active control of cell microenvironments in biomedical applications”, with the objetive of synthetizing and characterizating new magnetic and plasmonic nanoparticles which kill the cancer cells through hyperthermia.

Expertise
Coordination chemistry, X-ray diffraction, crystal structure, microstructure, electronic microscopy (SEM and TEM), magnetic properties, DFT calculations, topology, synthesis methods, pulvimetallurgy, catalysis, mechanical properties, management models, innovation in education

Bio
Dr. Gotzone Barandika was graduated in Chemistry (UPV/EHU, 1989), and received her PhD in Physics in 1995 (Universidad de Navarra). Since 1996 she works for UPV/EHU as a lecturer and researcher at the Inorganic Chemistry deparment. She has been working in Materials Science focusing her work on machine tools materials, magnetic compounds, biomaterials, and metal organic frameworks. She has published over 80 articles receiving more than 20 cites per article. She is the author of an international patent, and has supervised 5 PhD theses. She has been the director of the UPV/EHU postgrade “Orthopaedics”, and since 2011 is an executive board member of the Spanish Association of Bioinorganics. She is also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Computational Methods in Molecular Design.

Interests and objetives
I am involved in several research projects focused on the development of MOF-type porous materials for the storage and transport of mass and energy. Additionally, I intend to go on the development of surface coatings for orthopaedic biomaterials. I am interested in management models applied to research groups, and I have published several articles on the matter. Additionally, I spend some of my time on divulgation activities directed to the local society, focusing special attention on young people.

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Nagore Barroso García graduated in Chemistry in 2018 at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). Her degree thesis was on “Surface modification of Poly(ethylene terephthalate) for biomedical applications” in the Macromolecular Chemistry Laboratory of the Faculty of Science and Technology of Leioa.

Subsequently, she finished her master’s degree in New Materials in 2019 at the University of the Basque Country and the University of Cantabria with a thesis based on “Hyaluronic acid/chitosan biodegradable polycomplexes for 3D printing”, carried out in the Macromolecular Chemistry Laboratory of the Faculty of Science and Technology.

Currently, she is starting her PhD at BCMaterials, in the field of metal-oxide framework nanoparticles (MOF NPs) under the direction of Stefan Wuttke.

Ikerbasque Research Professor since 2012, Director of the Microfluidics & BIOMICs Cluster UPV/EHU since 2019, Young Member of Jakiunde, the Academy of Science and Arts of the Basque Country since 2016.

Studied chemistry at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid until 2002. Then, she moved to the University of Twente in The Netherlands, where she completed her PhD in 2006 under the supervision of Dr. Crego Calama and Prof. David Reinhoudt at the Supramolecular Chemistry Group within the MESA⁺ Institute for Nanotechnology. In 2006 she joined the Biomedical Diagnostics Institute in Dublin, Ireland, where in 2009 she became Team Leader in Microfluidics for Platelet Biology. In 2012, she was awarded an Ikerbasque Research Professorship and she moved to CICmicroGUNE in the Basque Country, Spain. In 2014, Lourdes joined the BIOMICS research group at the University of the Basque Country, where she established her own independent research team: BIOMICS-microfluidics, focused on the development of lab-on-a-chip technologies. In June 2015 she co-founded the Microfluidics Cluster UPV/EHU with Dr. Fernando Benito-Lopez´s group and in 2019 she promoted the creation of the Microfluidics & BIOMICS Cluster UPV/EHU.

Research Interest: Development of microtecnology and Lab on a chip analytical systems. Research lines: (1) Microfluidics, (2) Smart materials for sensing and actuation, (3) Optical fibers as sensors (4) Surface engineering (5) Microsystems integration.

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ORCID: 0000-0002-6638-7370

Scopus ID: 8646759700

Expertise
Solid coordination frameworks (SCF), hydrothermal synthesis; X-ray diffracion; crystal structures; structural analysis.

Bio
Begoña Bazán received the diploma degree in geology and the doctor degree in sciences from the University of Basque Country (UPV-EHU) in 1997 and 2003, respectively. She held the position of Assistant Professor from 2004 to 2013. Now, she holds a post of permanent doctor researcher in the Mineralogy and Petrology Department at UPV/EHU from 2013. She is a member of the Crystallography group from 2001 and a junior researcher of the BCmaterials from 2014, an excellence research centre sponsored by the Basque Science Foundation and the University. Her current research includes the synthesis and study of solid coordination networks (SCN), X-ray diffraction, elucidation of crystal structures and their structural analysis. She is co-author of 33 scientific papers (h-index=10), of 7 book-chapters and of 80 contributions to Spanish and international conferences. She is author of 1 international patent, and has supervised 3 Thesis Master. Currently, she is supervising 2 PhD Thesis.

Interests and objetives
Currently, I am involved in DEMAGENER (Development of advanced materials for the generation, storage and liberation of energy) project, funded under the MINECO.
I also belong to the Consolidated Group (Basque Government) led by Prof. Arriortua.

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Fernando Benito-Lopez studied chemistry at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and completed his master studies in the Department of Inorganic Chemistry in 2002. He obtained his PhD in Microfluidic Technology at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, in 2007. He carried out his postdoctoral research in the group of Prof. Dermot Diamond at Dublin City University, Ireland, where in 2010 became Team Leader in polymer microfluidics. In 2012, he moved to CIC microGUNE, a Research Centre working in Microtechnology in Spain. Soon later, he was awarded with the prestigious Ramón y Cajal Fellowship. In 2015, he moved to the University of the Basque Country and funded the Analytical Microsystems & Materials for Lab-on-a-Chip Team (AMMa-LOAC) and the Microfluidics Cluster UPV/EHU, Spain, to agglutinate several research groups working in microtechnology. In 2019, he became Associate Professor at the University of the Basque Country.

He has a special research interest in microtechnology, microfluidics and in the integration of smart materials within microfluidic devices for sensing and actuation.

My research lines are:

• Research Line 1. Microfluidics.
• Research Line 2. Smart materials for sensing and actuation.
• Research Line 3: Optical fibers as sensors
• Research Line 4. Surface engineering.
• Research Line 5. Microsystem integration.

Scientific Highlights:

• H-factor 29 (Scopus, date: 28/10/2020), 2400+ citations.
• 83 peer-reviewed journal publications (58 Q1)
• 1 book (doctoral thesis) and 5 invited book chapters.
• 56 Peer Reviewed Proceedings Articles (High International Relevance) (24 ORAL).
• 7 patent applications:3 active, 3 filed but abandoned, 1 filled but withdrawn.
• 6 cover articles.
• 85 Oral presentations (42 Invited Talks), 89 Poster Contributions.
• Cited in Press (New Scientist, L’Expansion, Sunday Times, The Irish Times, …)
• 5 PhD students doctoral thesis supervised and 11 PhD doctoral thesis in progress.

ORCID: 0000-0003-0699-5507

Garikoitz Beobide is professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the UPV/EHU since 2010. G.B. obtained his BSc in Chemistry degree (University of Strathclyde and UPV/EHU) in 2002 and PhD degree in 2007, receiving from the UPV/EHU the doctorate extraordinary award related to his research results. During the postdoctoral period (2007-2010), G.B. joined the IK4-Tekniker Technology Centre as a Senior Scientist, where his research focused in the development and application of materials and functional surfaces. Since 2010, as professor of the UPV/EHU, his research field is devoted to the design and synthesis of novel metal-organic materials, including MOF (metal-organic frameworks), MBioF (metal-biomolecule frameworks), SMOF (supramolecularly assembled metal-organic frameworks) and MOA (metal-organic aerogels). G.B. deals also with the modelling of electronic properties and adsorptive behavior of materials, through both experimental techniques and computational calculations (DFT, GCMC) that allow a deeper understanding of the surface of porous systems, interactions with adsorbed species and potential applications. As a result of his research activity, G.B. has made more than 70 contributions to scientific journals (h-index: 24). G.B. is also co-author of three international patents and co-founder of Poretune S.L. Company, a star-up devoted to the development of novel porous catalysts for electrochemical applications.

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Lía Campos-Arias finished her Chemistry degree in 2017 at the University of Basque Country. Her bachelor thesis, carried out in Inorganic Chemistry department, was about developing sodiumvanadium fluorophosphates family cathodes with graphene covering for Na-ion batteries. From it resulted a communication in poster format for the Biennial Reunion of Spanish Chemical Royal Society in 2017.
After that, she did a Master in Energies and fuels for the future at the Autonomous University of Madrid and she concluded it in 2018. She did the Master thesis in the Institute of Material Science of Madrid (ICMM-CSIC) related with the microstructure optimization of piezoelectric ceramic materials for energy harvesting.
Finishing her studies, she collaborated in the MOLEMAT project (Molecularly Engineered Materials and process for Perovskite solar cell technology) at the BCMaterials during 8 months, working with 2D perovskite solar cells. Afterwards she worked at VITO, an independent Flemish research organization in the area of cleantech and sustainable development, during 6 months. Her work there consisted in the optimization of CO2 electroreduction to obtain formic acid, which is part of an EU project co-directed by several Universities and Research companies from the Netherlands, Belgium, France and United Kingdom.
Currently, she is developing her PhD studies in the area of conformable printed electronics at the BCMaterials.

Associate Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of the Basque Country since April 2010. He completed his PhD studies in September 2001, joining the University of the Basque Country in that same year as a teacher within the Department of Inorganic Chemistry. In April 2015 he received the accreditation to the academic full professor body.

He has developed several research lines all of them related to porous metal-organic materials. One of them focused on developing a sustainable production route for this type of porous materials through its solvent-free synthesis by directly heating a carefully selected reagent mixture so that some of them melt at moderate temperatures. It was also possible to demonstrate that microwave heating allows reducing reaction times to a few minutes while maintaining high yields and materials performance.

In addition, he developed another research line based on the use of nucleobases together with different metal centers for the formation of porous materials with a three-dimensional skeleton supported by coordination links between nucleobases and metal centers (Metal-Biomolecule Frameworks, MBioFs) or by complementary hydrogen bonds between the nucleobases attached to the metal centers (Supramolecular Metal-Organic Frameworks, SMOFs). In both cases, they are novel materials in which the use of the nucleobases improves the adsorption selectivity of these materials.

A third line focuses on the processing of MOFs as aerogels (Metal-Organic Aerogels, MOA). Aerogels consist of gels where the liquid present inside has been replaced by air without causing gel contraction. This is achieved by drying the gel under supercritical conditions, usually with CO2. There are few examples of these new materials in which the microporosity of MOF is combined with the meso- and macroporous characteristics of aerogels to give rise to a hierarchically ordered porous material.

Currently, these three lines are converging in the preparation of multifunctional porous metal-organic materials where a second property (conductivity, luminescence, fluorescence) is altered by the interaction of host molecules with the biomolecules integrated in the porous material to develop highly selective chemical sensors.

As a result of the aforementioned research activity, 146 contributions (h=34) have been made to scientific journals in the area of materials science, inorganic chemistry and crystalline engineering. He is also co-author of two patents in this area and co-founder of a technology-based company (PORETUNE SL) related to one of these patents. In the last 5 years, he has participated in 6 national and regional research projects, being IP in four of them. He has also directed 7 doctoral theses and 2 more will be defended shortly. I am also a cofounder, together with Drs. Garikoitz Beobide and Daniel Vallejo of the start-up company PORETUNE S.L. which is responsible for exploiting one of these patents (PCT / ES2017 / 070255).

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Expertise

• C++
• C
• C#
• Matlab
• Assembly
• MySQL
• Labview
• solutions
• PSIM, Multisim, TI TINA, Orcad
• sensor instrumentation
• firmware
• sensor signal processing and data acquisition
• Eagle
• Altium
• GUI
• Printed Sensor by screen/Ink-jet printing
• Solidworks
• Autodesk Inventor
• Sensor Design

Bio

Nelson Castro was born in Guimarães, Portugal. He received an integrated Master Degree in electronics and computing engineering from the University of Minho, Portugal in 2013. He worked since October 2013 to February 2017 as a research engineer in the Physics Centre at University of Minho in the development of electronic instrumentation for polymer based printed sensors and smart materials, such as: magnetoelectric, piezoelectric, piezoresistive and capacitive, having published 4 articles in scientific journals. He worked since March til June of 2017 at Somatica, Materials and Solutions in the development of piezoelectric keyboards for industrial applications. Currently, he is working towards his Ph.D at BC Materials in optimization of polymer based magnetic composites and bioreactors for biomedical applications.

Interests and objetives
Currently I am developing the 3D model and interface electronics of an electromechanical bioreactor and magnetic bioreactor for cell stimulation

My other research interests are instrumentation and data communication and analysis for printed sensor arrays; 3D printing of smart materials and electronics; and electroactive inks printing optimization.

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Leire Celaya Azcoaga graduated in Chemistry in 2018 from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). Her undergraduate thesis, entitled “Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) for removal of pollutants from aqueous media”, was carried out in the Department of Mineralogy and Petrology of the Faculty of Science and Technology of Leioa as a continuation of her previous work as an intern student at BCMaterials.

Subsequently, she studied a Master’s Degree in Secondary Education and an Expertise in International Education + IB Certificate (2019) at Camilo José Cela University after which she continued her scientific career by completing her Master’s degree in New Materials (2020) at the University of the Basque Country and the University of Cantabria. Due to exceptional circumstances, she developed a bibliographic master’s thesis in collaboration with BCMaterials on the state of the art of inner and surface functionalization strategies of Metal-Organic Frameworks as bio-active molecules delivery systems.

Currently, she is starting her PhD in BCMaterials in the field of multifunctional materials for the controlled release of drugs based on inorganic-organic clusters. Her research will also be focusing on the design of bioactive MOF-type materials.

Kaiyuan Chen received his M.S. degree of Materials Science and Engineering at Guilin University of Technology in 2020. His research focused on the local structure and dipole-glass-like relaxor behavior of the functional ceramics.

Kaiyuan is currently pursuing his Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Qi Zhang and Prof. Senentxu Lanceros-Méndez, focusing on Designing, Recovery and Re-manufacturing of Electroceramic Components. Moreover, he is interested in the relation of local structure and physical property in oxide materials.

Expertise
Responsible for research line of BCMaterials: Magnetic Shape Memory Alloys as  Active (smart) multifunctional materials. Preparation of national and EU projects. Supervising PhD students.

Bio
Prof. Volodymyr A. Chernenko graduated Moscow State University in 1975. He has got his PhD degree in Chemical Physics from the same University in 1980. He has 35 years of research experience in centres in Ukraine, Germany, Japan, Italy, United States, France, Switzerland, Australia, Spain, Hong Kong and Russia. He is currently holding a permanent position as Ikerbasque Research Professor at BCMaterials & University of Basque Country. Professional interest is in solid state physics, physics of phase transitions in solids, magnetism, high pressure physics, functional materials, metallurgy and, in particular, focused on research and development of the multifunctional magnetic shape memory materials, magnetomechanics of martensites, thin films and nanotechnologies of the ferromagnetic martensites.
Author and co-author of 260 original papers in ISI scientific journals and book chapters with about 6000 citations and h-index equal to 37. He is author of 14 patents. He is International Fellow Awardee of the Helmholtz Association (Germany) in 2014. He is world-wide known as one of the founders of the new research area “Ferromagnetic shape memory alloys” being organizer and/or invited speaker of many International conferences and symposia on this subject.

Interests and objetives
Currently Ikerbasque Research Professor ascribed to BCMaterials.
Professional interest  includes research and development of the ferromagnetic shape memory materials, magnetomechanics of martensites, thin films and nanotechnologies of the ferromagnetic martensites.

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Prof. Coluzza worked in world leading biophysics groups and created an extensive network of collaborators. He graduated in physics from La Sapienza University in Rome and obtained his doctorate in physics from the University of Amsterdam. Prof. Coluzza worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge and at the Institute for Medical Research in London. He recently held the post of assistant at the University of Vienna and Group leader at the CIC biomaGUNE research centre in San Sebastián (Spain). He currently has a position as Professor Ikerbasque at BCMaterials, where he is the head of the Computational Biophysics group.

Prof. Coluzza’s research focuses on the applications of statistical mechanics to soft matter and complex biological systems. During his research experience he developed a deep interest in many different fields ranging from physics to biology.

Computational Biophysics’s research is in the unique position of creating a conceptual bridge between biology and material science.

Computational Biophysics’s discoveries about the crucial role of the hydrogen bond interactions for protein designability reconciled 30 years of protein modelling with the state-of-the-art full-atomistic protein models. We developed a novel multiscale representation of proteins by progressively reducing their complexity to the bare minimum. Our research showed that directional interactions alone reduce the conformational space of any polymer (including proteins), allowing the possibility of encoding a specific structure in their sequence. We refer to such polymers as Bionic Proteins. Using such a model, we could tackle fundamental biophysical problems such as protein design, folding, evolution and protein-polymer mixtures. For example, we patented smart-nanopores that, by mimicking chaperones, can refold denatured proteins. For more details check our webpage.

F. Javier del Campo graduated in Analytical Chemistry from Stratchlyde University (1998) and the University of the Basque Country (1999). He obtained a DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2003, where he specialized in Electrochemistry. After 18 months in industry, developing Electrochemistry-based process solutions for international companies and government agencies, he joined the Spanish National Microelectronics Centre, where he further specialized in miniaturization and systems integration, covering a number of fabrication technique including microfabrication, conventional manufacturing processes and screen printing with a focus on prototype development methodologies. During this time, his research involved the miniaturization of electrochemical sensors and biosensors for environmental and health applications, particularly in the area of point of care devices.

His most recent activities have focused on the development of self-powered sensors based on electrochromic materials, as a means to avoid the need for silicon-based components, which earned him a Leonardo grant from the BBVA Foundation in 2016.

To date, Javier has co-authored over 100 scientific publications (h=29), is co-inventor in 8 patents and has supervised 7 PhD theses.
He is now Ikerbasque research professor leading the Micro- and Nano- devices line at BCMaterials.

Current research interests include: Electrochemistry, microfluidics, sensors and biosensors, miniaturization techniques, and systems integration.

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Esperanza Díaz obtained her BSc in Chemistry, specialisation in Physical Chemistry, in the Faculty of Sciences in Leioa (University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU) in 1986. She completed her bachelor thesis and defended her PhD in 1991 in the same Faculty of the UPV/EHU. She is a professor in the Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science of the Engineering School of Bilbao (UPV/EHU).

Her research has been focused on the investigation of biodegradable and biocompatible polymers for medical applications. She is currently developing a new line of research related to the degradation of plastics in seawater.

Daniel Doménech graduated in Physics in 2020 at the University of València (UV). He first became involved in Particle Physics, with his bachelor thesis regarding particle track reconstruction with machine learning techniques at LHCb. In 2021 he finished his master’s degree in Advanced Physics at UV with a specialization in Theoretical Physics.

During his period in València he has collaborated in large experiments associated with CERN, such as LHCb, AMS-02 and RD50. He also enjoyed a research stay in Quantum Optics at the Johannes Guttenberg University (JGU) of Mainz, Germany, performing optical super-resolution microscopy of single trapped ions.

However, his interest changed during his master thesis, focused on the static characterization of monolithic radiation-hard active pixel sensors -the new generation of silicon particle detectors-. There he discovered the important role of Materials Science in the development of new technologies. His work received the Xavier Gómez i Font award for the best master’s thesis written in English at UV.

He is now pursuing a PhD at BCMaterials and the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) on the control of current induced magnetic domain wall motion in nanostructures and thin films under the supervision of Prof. Rafael Morales and Dr. José Maria Porro. His research focuses on the characterization of magnetotransport processes and the fabrication of nanopatterned magnetic thin films for spintronics applications.

Juan Pablo Esquivel is currently an Ikerbasque Research Associate at BCMaterials. He holds a BSc in Mechatronics Engineering (2005) from Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico), MSc in Micro and Nanoelectronics Engineering (2008) and a PhD in Electronics Engineering (2010) from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). He has performed research stays at the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin, Germany, and was a Senior Fellow at the Bioengineering Department of the University of Washington, USA, under a Marie Curie Fellowship. In 2016, he obtained a Tenured Scientist position at the Instituto de Microelectrónica de Barcelona, IMB-CNM (CSIC). He is also co-founder and Scientific Advisor of the spin-off companies Fuelium and Sweanty.

His work is focused on the development of sustainable power sources, such as fuel cells and batteries, and their integration in autonomous portable devices. His multidisciplinary research combines materials science and engineering, electrochemistry, paper microfluidics and printed electronics technologies with sustainability principles and a product oriented approach. He has authored more than 60 ISI scientific contributions, is inventor in 12 patents and has presented his work in 70+ conferences, including several invited talks.  He has received numerous fellowships, international prizes and distinctions for his work, such as the Catalonia Ecodesign Prize and the TR35 award from MIT Technology Review, as one of the top 10 mexican young innovators. He is recognized as SNI level I from Conacyt, Mexico. He has obtained competitive founding at regional, national and European levels as well as from private organizations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He has mentored and supervised research work from 30+ researchers including postdoc, PhD, MSc and undergraduate students.

Research interests

Biodegradable batteries | Micro fuel cells | Materials engineering | Paper microfluidics | Organic electronics | Ecodesign | Circular Economy

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Expertise: 

Magnetic Characterization, X-Absorption spectroscopy, Magnetotactic bacteria, magnetic nanoparticles, biomedical application

Bio:

I graduated in Solid State Physics at the University of the Basque Country where I received my doctorate in 1991. Since 2002 I am Professor of Applied Physics and currently head of the Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Research Group.. From 2007 to 2011, I have been vice dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology.

My main research line has been to study the relationship between structure and magnetism in amorphous magnetic materials and nanometric systems. In 2011, I launched a new line of research with magnetotactic bacteria with a double purpose: 1) to study 1D magnetic nanostructures using the bacteria as a model and 2) to study the viability of the particles synthesized by the bacteria and the bacteria themselves in biomedical applications.

Another of the important activities of my research career is the use of large scientific facilities, mainly synchrotron radiation. I have been one of the promoters of the beamline of the Spanish ALBA synchrotron “Core level absorption and Emission Spectroscopies Beamline” which was approved in the first phase. In addition, I have been a member of the International Commission for the evaluation of the Italian line in the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility: Review panel GILDA 2009 and I am currently a member of the International Commission for the Evaluation of Measurement Proposals of the British DIAMOND Synchrotron.

Since 2000 I have been the principal investigator of 7 research projects within the National Materials Plan and  I have coordinated two Marie Curie Individual Fellowship projects.

I have participated in the organization of international congresses as organizational secretary (VI International Workshop on Non-Crystalline Solids, 2000; XV International Conference on Soft Magnetic Materials, 2001; 6th European Conference on Magnetic Sensors and Actuators, 2006) and I have been a member of the editorial committee of Soft Magnetic Materials 2017. Finally, it should be noted that I have participated in the nomination for the Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 at the invitation of the Nobel Committee for Physics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science.

Interest and Objectives:

I led the Group of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, At present, an interdisciplinary group composed of Physicists, Electronic Engineers and Biologists working together.. The group develops an intense research and training work with more than 200 indexed publications and 7 theses defended in the last 6 years, and 9 theses in progress.

The main objective of the group is to prepare and characterize new magnetic materials with special properties for outstanding applications.

Main project: Magnetotactic bacteria as sources of model magnetic nanoparticles and biorobots for targeted therapies (MAT2017-83631-C3-1-R)

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Graduated in Physics from the University of the Basque Country in 2008 and Doctor from the same university in 2013. Since 2009, he has been working on different basic research and applied research projects focused mainly on medicine, characterization and micro / nano patronage of magnetic materials in thin films for application in sensors. He has been done a research stay during his predoctoral stage at the University of Durham (United Kingdom) and Caen (France). A 2-year postdoctoral stay as a BCMaterials researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), focused on the surface nanopatter by self-assembling block copolymer. He is the author of 25 contributions at international conferences, as well as 42 scientific publications in international journals with more than 580 citations and an index of 16 (Scopus). He has also collaborated on more than 5 research projects funded by regional, national and European entities during the last 5 years.

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Expertise
Single crystal and powder X-ray diffraction. Crystal structure solution and refinement. Crystallographic databases. Hydrothermal synthesis. IR and Raman spectroscopies. Thermal properties of materials.

Bio
Roberto Fernández de Luis got his PhD (Material science, 2009) from the University of the Basque Country. His research is focused on crystal structure determination and thermal stability of the crystal frameworks after the loss and uptake of guest and coordinated species. For these studies, he has specialized on single crystal and powder X-ray diffraction at non-ambient temperature. He is currently working in collaboration with the Crystallography group in UPV/EHU on the room temperature and hydrothermal synthesis of nano-structured hydrogels of silver vanadium oxides for sensing and battery applications.

Interests and objetives
Design of porous materials as sensor for alcohols detectors.
Development of electrode materials for battery applications.

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In 2021, Bruna F. Gonçalves received her Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from University of Minho, Portugal, in a collaboration with the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, where she worked on the development of printable Cu(In,Ga)Se₂ (CIGS) photovoltaic systems, with special focus on the synthesis of CIGS crystals and their implementation as screen printable inks for the production of solution-based photovoltaic devices.

In 2022 she joined BC Materials as a post-doctoral researcher, under IKUR neutronics program, where she works on the development of active and smart materials based on polymer nanocomposites. Stimuli responsive metal-organic frameworks are also being synthesized for advanced nanocomposite development.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-9251

Expertise
Single crystal and powder X-ray diffraction.

Crystal structure solution and refinement.

IR and Raman spectroscopies.

Thermal properties of materials.

Catalytic activity measurements.

DFT calculations.

Bio
Arkaitz Fidalgo-Marijuan is graduated in Environmental Science in 2009 and Master in New Materials in 2010. In March 2014 he obtained his PhD degree on material science and technology at the University of the Basque Country. His research is focused on the synthesis and characterization of new metalloporphyrin MOF materials as heterogeneous catalysts and gas adsorption and separation. He has specialized on single crystal and powder X-ray diffraction, thermal characterization, catalytic activity studies and DFT calculations. He is currently working in collaboration with the Crystallography group in UPV/EHU on the synthesis and characterization of MOF@LI composites for CO2 capture.

Interests and objetives
Design of metalloporphrin based MOF materials for heterogeneous catalysis and gas adsorption.
Currently, I am involved in LISOL (Soluciones basadas en líquidos iónicos para diversificar las oportunidades de la industria vasca) project, funded under the ELKARTEK program of the Basque Government for the design of new composite materials based on ionic liquids supported on MOFs for CO2 capture and separation.

Curriculum Vitae — ResearchGate

Expertise
Structural, Magnetic and Biological techniques, including Cell Manipulation, Scanning and Transmission Electron Microscopies (SEM and TEM), Vibrating Sample and SQUID Magnetometry (VSM and SQUID), and Magnetic Hyperthermia.c

Bio
I obtained my Degree in Physics from the Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU) in 2016, and afterwards I enrolled in the Interuniversity Master of New Materials, offered by the Universidad de Cantabria (UC) and the Universidad del País Vasco(UPV/EHU). In my Bachelor`s Final Year and master`s Degree Projects I have been working with the Group of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, collaborating with the Inmunology, Microbiology and Parasitology department, in an interdisciplanary research project related to Magnetotactic Bacteria for Enhanced Applications. In this project I have developed a method to create 2D and 3D arrays of magnetotactic bacteria for data storage applications and theoretical studies, and in addition, I have also analyzed the viability of these bacteria as nanorobots for Magnetic Hyperthermia mediated Cancer Treatment.

Interests and objetives
I plan to continue my research in the areas of Novel Cancer Treatment Therapies such as Drug Delivery and Magnetic Hyperthermia.

Curriculum Vitae

Ander García Díez obtained his BSc. in Physics (2014) and MSc. in New Materials (2015), both from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). His final degree thesis (TFG) and master thesis (TFM) revolved around the application of magnetic nanoparticles in magnetic hypertermia, both under the supervision of Prof. Mª Luisa Fernández-Gubieda.

Later (2019), he obtained his degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). On October 2019, he joined BCMaterials as a Predoctoral researcher to
work on active and smart materials.

Andrés García Franco graduated in Chemistry in 2020 at the University of Murcia (UMU). His final grade work was the study of the electrocatalytic capacity of gold nanoparticles in the oxygen reduction reaction using square wave voltammetry.

He finished the Master in New Materials in 2021 at the University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and the University of Cantabria (UC). He development his final master work at BCMaterials with the title of “Fabrication and Characterization of ThMn12-type compounds for his applications as permanent magnets”.

Currently, he is developing my PhD studies in the area of advanced functional materials at the BCMaterials.

Interest and objectives

• Development in new magnetic materials without critical raw materials with optimal magnetic properties.
• Recycling and reutilization of existing magnetic materials.

Expertise
Thin film technologies; Micro- and nano-patterning; integration of materials for applications.

Bio
Dr. Alfredo García-Arribas is currently an associate (tenured) professor at the Universidad of País Vasco UPV/EHU and researcher of BCMaterials, after several years with the University of Oviedo, Spain, and having enjoyed research visits with the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, and Cranfield University, Cranfield, U.K. He got his PhD degree at the Universidad del País Vasco in 1996, devoted his PhD to the study of the properties of amorphous magnetic materials. His current research activity is focused in the application of magnetic materials in micro-sensors and actuators, in particular, those based on magneto-impedance, magneto-elasticity, and magnetic shape memory alloys. He has authored more than 100 scientific articles, receiving more than 750 citations (h-index=17). He has supervised 3 PhD Thesis and is currently directing 3 more.

Interests and objetives
Currently Associate (tenured) Professor in the Electricity and Electronics Department of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) ascribed to BCMaterials.
Teaching activities: Sensors and Actuators; Microsystems; Material Synthesis by thin film deposition.
Main research topics are related to the development and application of magnetic materials to sensors and actuators: for example, thin films for magnetoimpedance sensors and magnetic shape memory alloys for actuators.

Curriculum Vitae — ResearcherID

I am graduated in Physics in 2019 at the University of the Salamanca (USAL). My bachelor thesis was on “Quantum point contact in h-BN graphene heterostructures with graphite backgate” being a common user of the clean room of the University of the Salamanca.

Subsequently, I finished my Master´s degree in Physics and Mathematics in 2020 at the University of the Salamanca. My Master thesis entitle “Deep learning micromagnetic” were carried out at the University of Salamanca and the start-up Artelnics S.L. where I used the state-of-the-art techniques of machine learning in the fundamental problems of micromagnetic. Simultaneously, I worked as machine learning researcher at Artelnics developing research projects, where machine learning is applied to solve real-world problems.

Currently, I am developing micromagnetic simulations of magnetoresistance sensors for the detection of a single magnetotactic bacterium.

Expertise
Transmission Electronic Microscopy

Bio
Izaskun Gil de Muro received the diploma and the doctor degree in Chemistry from the University of the Basque Country in 1993 and 2001, respectively. In 1993, she joined the Inorganic Chemistry Department where she has carried out most of her research career. Her thesis project was about characterization and study of magnetic properties of coordination compounds and metallic oxides. Now, her labour is focused in characterization by Transmission Electronic Microscopy (TEM) of nanostructured materials with interesting technological and biomedical applications. Dr. Gil de Muro has published about 35 scientific papers. She is teacher in the Inorganic Chemistry Department of the University of the Basque Country from 1999.

Interests and objetives
Today, I am mainly implicated in the characterization by Transmission Electronic Microscopy of Nanostructured Materials of Energetic and Biomedical Interest.

Curriculum Vitae — ResearchGate

Dr. Paula González Saiz received her M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Cantabria (Spain) in 2016 and her Ph.D. in Science and Technology of Materials from the University of the Basque Country in 2020. She joined BCMateriales in 2016 to do her Master Thesis on Materials and after that she did a PhD on the development of environmental sensors based on magnetoelastic resonators functionalized with Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) porous materials. She has broad experience in the preparation and characterization (XRD, SEM, TEM, TGA, FTIR, VSM, …) of different materials since she has always done experimental works in that field since her final degree project. She has written over 10 papers in peer-reviewed international journals, and she is also co-author of a book chapter in the field of MOFs materials. Moreover, she has presented his research in more than 15 conferences and workshops both national and international and has attended several courses on materials characterization techniques (like microscopy, thermal analysis, or X-ray diffraction techniques) and summer schools (in MOFs and in magnetism). Besides, Paula is very passionate about science dissemination for what she has participate in different outreach events like talks in scientific café, radio interviews, science week, scientific events organization or talks in schools, among many others.

Currently, she is involved in MULTI-FUN (Enabling multi-functional performance through multi-material additive manufacturing) project support from the European Commission.

• ResearchGate: (3) Paula Gsaiz (researchgate.net)
• Google Schoolar: ‪Paula G. Saiz – ‪Google Académico

Expertise
Inorganic synthesis, single crystal x-ray diffaction

Bio
Juan M. Gutiérrez-Zorrilla received his B.S. degree from the University of Bilbao in 1979 and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in 1984 (Profs. P. Román, M. Martínez Ripoll). After two short stays at the Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination (Toulouse), he was promoted to Associated Professor in 1988. He was a visiting scientist at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Prof. Yamase’s laboratory) in 1988, and 1992-93. Since 1999 he has been Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Faculty of Science and Technology (UPV/EHU). In 2009 he received the Euskoiker Research Award. His current research field is focused on Chemistry of polyoxometalates and their applications in catalysis and as anticancer agents. He has published over 80 articles in scientific peer-reviewed journals and has supervised 8 PhD Thesis.

Interests and objetives
His research interests are focused on Polyoxometalate Chemistry and the applications of POMs in sensing and as antitumoral agents.

Curriculum Vitae — ResearchGate

Expertise

• Magnetic materials characterization at the macro- and micro-scale
• Applications of magnetic materials

Bio
Jon Gutiérrez received the diploma and the doctor degree, both in physics, from the Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU in 1985 and 1992, respectively. He is one of the seed members of the Group of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials founded and led by Prof. J.M. Barandiarán at this university. His areas of interest cover from the study of the structure and the fundamental magnetic properties of magnetic materials to the analysis and development of possible technical applications to be implemented in sensor-like devices. One of the main focus of his research is the use of magnetoelastic amorphous ribbons for sensing purposes, and any other related device or phenomenon, like nowadays magnetoelectric laminates or functionalized magnetoelastic labels for biosensing. Dr. J. Gutiérrez has published about 100 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals and has supervised 4 PhD Thesis. He is member of the Technical Committee of the European Magnetic Sensors & Actuators (EMSA) and Materials and Applications for Sensors and Transducers (IC-MAST) Conferences.

Interests and objetives
Current main research lines:

• Magnetic properties of ferromagnetic shape memory alloys.
• Magnetoelectric hybrid laminated composites.
• Radiation damage in permanent magnets for particle accelerators

Curriculum Vitae — ResearchGate

Naveen Harindu Hemasiri holds BSc (Hons.) in Materials Science and Engineering, and MEng (Hons.) in Printed Electronics Engineering. He received his BSc in Engineering degree with excellent honors from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka in 2015 and completed his Master of Engineering degree with the best achievement (both academic and research) award from Sunchon National University, Korea in 2018. His undergraduate project examined metal oxide-based solid-state gas sensors and NiTinol based smart shape memory alloys. In 2016 he started working with Prof. Ji-Myon Lee and his master research focused on the improvement of electronic properties of the thinnest known material, graphene and hybrids of it for printed electronics and optoelectronics applications.
One of his graphene projects was awarded as the best project in Brain Korea (BK) 21Plus program in 2017 and obtained a Korean patent in the same year. He joined with the Advanced Functional Materials group in BCMaterials in February 2019 as a pre-doctoral researcher where he is reading for his Ph.D. Currently, he is working on 2D materials beyond graphene and TMD based hole/electron transport materials for perovskite solar cells and temperature-dependent electrical behavior of those materials on solar cell devices.

Google Scholar –  Research Gate  – Linkedin

Bruno Hermenegildo was born in Angra do Heroísmo, Azores – Portugal. He received his bachelor degree in Physics in 2016 and his M. Sc. in Biophysics and Bionanosystems in 2018 both from Minho University, Portugal. He joined the Center of Physics of the University of Minho in 2016 where he worked on his thesis in the development of active and biodegradable hydrogels for bone tissue engineering applications, part of which took place during an ERASMUS stay in BCMaterials, in 2017.

Interests:

Currently I am starting my PhD on hybrid biodegradable active systems for tissue engineering. The main objective of this project is to develop a new and improved solution for the regeneration of damaged or diseased tissues, that avoids the problems related to current solutions such as transplants.

Notable Facts:

Hermenegildo BF, Pereira G, Abreu AS, Castanheira EMS, Ferreira PMT, Queiroz MJRP. Phenanthrenyl-indole as a fluorescent probe for peptides and lipid membranes. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry 2011, 221(1): 47-57.

Vilaça H, Pereira G, Castro TG, Hermenegildo BF, Shi J, Faria TQ, Micaêlo N, Brito RMM, Xu B, Castanheira EMS, Martins JA, Ferreira PMT. New self-assembled supramolecular hydrogels based on dehydropeptides. Journal of Materials Chemistry B 2015, 3(30): 6355-6367.

Abreu AS, Hermenegildo BFC, Ferreira PMT, Queiroz MJRP, Castanheira EMS. Interaction of fluorescent quinolin-2-one and coumarin derivatives including dipeptides with lipid bilayers. RSC Advances 2016, 6(76): 72141-72148.

Expertise:

• Multifunctional materials synthesis and characterization
• Electrospraying smart materials
• Physical/mechanical characterization of smart hydrogels for use in tissue engineering
• Testing of microfluidic devices for ecotoxicological studies

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4854-8596

Dr. Peng Huang received M.S. degree from Beijing Institute of Technology in 2015, under supervision of Prof. Haizheng Zhong and his research focused on synthetizing CdS-based quantum dots and preparing high efficient white light emitting diode. Thereafter, he joined the Laboratory of Advanced Optoelectronic Materials at Soochow University, China and received his PHD degree under the guidance of Prof. Yongfang Li in 2018. During PHD program, he focused on interface engineering of perovskite solar cells with 2D transition metal dichalcogenides.

Interests and objectives
High efficiency and stable perovskite solar cells.

The website of my researchgate:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peng_Huang32

Expertise
Soft chemistry routes for preparation of inorganic materials.
Thermogravimetry. X ray diffraction. Electronic Microscopy.

Bio
Maite Insausti received the doctor degree in chemistry in 1994 from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and from 1996 she is professor of Inorganic Chemistry in the Faculty of Science and Technology. She has been involved in the development of solid state chemistry laboratory in the research group of Prof. Teófilo Rojo, being working in the preparation of superconducting oxides and magnetoresistive manganites by soft chemistry methods. She has been secretary of the Spanish Group of Solid State Chemistry from 2000 to 2010. From 2005 until now her research is focused on the preparation and characterization of metallic nanoparticles as Au, Cu, Ag or FePd and magnetic oxide nanoparticles as Fe3O4 or Fe1-xNixO4 with controlled sizes. This research is aimed at the proper functionalization and recovering of the nanoparticles in order to obtain biocompatible nanostructures, which are being tested ‘in vitro’ and ‘in vivo’ experiments for hyperthermia applications and drug delivery. Dr. Insausti has published over 70 articles and 1 patent and has supervised 5 PhD Thesis.

Interests and objetives
“Magnetic nanoparticles for biological applications”. Mainly I am involved in the preparation and characterization of magnetic metals and oxides, properly functionalized with biomolecules, and with controlled sizes which yield high magnetization values for hyperthermia applications.
Actually I am also interested in the preparation of core-shell nanostructures to deposit on a photovoltaic material in order to increase the absorbed light and to study the efficiency of photovoltaic cells.

Curriculum Vitae — ResearchGate

Dr. Karla J. Merazzo received her M.Sc. and PhD in Condensed Matter Physics and Nanotechnology from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and the Instituto de Ciencias de Materiales de Madrid, CSIC, in 2008 and 2012, respectively. Her research line is magnetic nanostructures & nanodevices, spintronics and sensors. She has focused in magnetic nanodevices such as Spin Valves, Magnetic Tunnel Junctions, Spin Torque Nano-Oscillators, and magnetic & magnetoelectric sensors. Their applications include memory storage, microwave oscillators and sensors (biomedicine, smart systems, among others). She has participated in several international research projects, with over 20 scientific papers in international journals, participation in more than 40 international/national conferences, experiments at synchrotron facilities, co-supervision and mentoring of undergraduate and graduate students. She has formed a wide scientific network along Europe and has years of experience in teaching Physics for university students.

RESEARCHER ID: J-5164-2012 (also V-5543-2019 by an error I am fixing)

AUTHOR ID: 26531546800

ORCID CODE: 0000-0003-0521-5142

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Karla_Merazzo

https://publons.com/researcher/1511912/karla-j-merazzo/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/karla-marina-jaimes-merazzo-227bba100

Expertise
Electro-optical characterization of organic semiconductors, perovskite and nanocomposites.
Thin film deposition by vaccum thermal evaporation and by wet chemistry.
Synthesis of plasmonic metal nanoparticles,conducting polymers.

Bio
Dr. Samrana Kazim is working as a senior researcher & group leader of Nanostructured Materials at BCMaterials-Basque Center for Materials, Applicatons and Nanostructures, Spain. Prior to this position, she worked as a tenured Senior scientist (2013-2017) at Abengoa Research, a corporate research center of multinational energy company. She obtained her Master degree (M.Sc) and doctoral degree(Ph.D.) in Materials chemistry from New Delhi (India). After submitting her Ph.D., she worked as a post-doc at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Kanpur,India) for one year, then she moved to Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry (IMC), Prague on IUPAC/UNESCO fellowship. She continued her work as staff scientist at IMC before moving to Abengoa Research. Her field of research interest includes perovskite solar cells, plasmonics, hybrid inorganic-organic nanocomposites. She has published more than 40 research articles in peer review international journal in the field of material science, energy and nanotechnology. She is co-author of 2 book chapters, book editor and co-inventor of 5 patents in the field of energy conversion and storage and delivered keynote & invited talks.

Interests and objetives
Her research objective is the development of nanostructured materials for optoelectronics devices and more specifically for thin film solar cells.

Google Scholar

Expertise
Ferromagnetic shape memory alloys; neutron and x-ray scattering; magnetic properties and electrical transport

Bio
Patricia Lázpita graduated in physics and received her doctor degree in applied physics from the Basque Country University (UPV/EHU) in 2003 and 2008, respectively. Since 2004, she is a member of the Group of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials at UPV/EHU. Her research work is mainly focused on the characterization and analysis of fundamental properties of magnetic shape memory alloys. She has over 40 published works in international peer reviewed journals in the fields of materials science, applied physics.

Interests and objetives
Currently, I am involved in FUNSAFE (Functional properties and non-equilibrium processes in shape memory alloys and ferroic materials) project, funded under the MINECO.

Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Beatriz Leiva graduated in Biochemistry in 2020 at University of Granada (UGR). Her degree thesis is called “Biomedical applications of mesoporous silica nanoparticles”, and it was done in the Inorganic Chemistry Department of the Science Faculty in Granada.

After that, she finished the Master in Biomaterials in 2021 at the Complutense University of Madrid. Her master thesis was about the synthesis and the characterization of mesoporous silica nanoparticles in order to create a new treatment for the osteoporosis disease. It was carried out in the Faculty of Pharmacy of UCM.

At the moment, she is working on her PhD at BCMaterials under supervision of Dr. Senentxu Lanceros-Méndez. Her work focus on the development of active cell microenvironments for advanced tissue regeneration strategies.

Expertise
Polymer synthesis and processing technologies: hydrothermal and microwave-assisted reactions, ring opening polymerization, extrusion, injection, melt compounding…

Thermal characterization (DSC, TGA), mechanical characterization (tensile testing, DMA), optical characterization (UV-Vis, photoluminescence, CD spectroscopy).

Structural determination: X-ray diffraction, FTIR, XPS, SEM, TEM, AFM.

Bio
Erlantz Lizundia completed his PhD in Advanced Materials Engineering in 2011 at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), which was recognized with the Extraordinary Doctoral Award (award limited to the Top 10 percent). During the 2012-2013 period he moved into the private industry to focus on the industrial application of biopolymers. From 2014 he has been combining teaching and research at the UPV/EHU. He joined Mark MacLachlan group at the University of the British Columbia as a visiting scientist for 6 months in January 2016, where has was dealing with chiral nematic mesoporous cellulose materials for environmentally friendly sensing and energy storage applications. In September 2016 he was appointed Associate Professor at the Bilbao School of Engineering (UPV/EHU). He has over 40 published works in international peer reviewed journals in the fields of materials science, applied chemistry, nanomaterials, green chemistry and biomedicine.

Interests and objetives
His current research deals with the development of novel biodegradable and renewable polymer-based nanohybrids for packaging, biomedical, bioimaging, sensing, energy storage and water purification applications.

Curriculum Vitae — Google Scholar — ResearcherID — ResearchGate

Expertise
UV/Vis absorption spectroscopy, fluorescence (steady-state and time-correlated) spectroscopy, linear-polarized light spectroscopy.

Bio
Prof. Dr. Fernando López Arbeloa obtained his Ph D Degree in Science in 1987 at the Latholieken Universiteit van Leuven (Belgium) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. F.C. De Schryver. He became Full Professor at the University of the Basque Country in 2002. He is an expert in optical spectroscopy, mainly in the characterization of the photophysical properties of fluorescent dyes and photosensors. New photosensitive materials, included materials with optical anisotropy response, have been developed by the incorporation of fluorescent probes in ordered nanostructured materials. He has published over 120 papers in scientific journal with high impact index (h index = 33) and has supervised 6 PhD Thesis. He was Vicepresident of the Spanish Photochemistry Group during 2005-2009 and has participated in the organization of several conferences in Photochemistry.

Interests and objetives
Development of Photoactive System in the Design of Advanced Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage (research project supportting by Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad).
Aromatic Molecules as Direct Agents for the Synthesis of Mesoporous Materials (collaboration with the Instituto de Catálisis y Petroquímica, CSIC, Madrid)

Curriculum Vitae — ResearchGate

Dr. Antonio Luque (Male) received his M.Sc. in Chemistry 1986 and his Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences 1990 from the Basque Country University (UPV/HU) in Bilbao, Spain. Since 2002, he occupies the position of University Professor in the Inorganic Department of the above-cited university. He has published 155 articles in scientific journals, receiving more than 3900 citations (h-index = 35) focused on the chemistry of polyoxometalates, the structural and magnetic features of coordination compounds, the development of porous metal-organic materials, and the supramolecular self-assembly of discrete metal-organic entities. He is co-inventor of two patents, and he has supervised six Ph.D. Thesis and several final degree and master projects. His research lines are currently devoted to the development of solvent-free synthetic methods for producing MOF (metal-organic frameworks) at lower costs, using a scalable and environmentally friendly route. Another line of research is dedicate to the rational design and preparation of new MBioF (metal-biomolecule frameworks), SMOF (supramolecularly assembled metal-organic frameworks) and MOA (metal-organic aerogels).

ResearcherID – ORCID – Google Scholar – Publons

Sara Martín Iglesias graduated in Biotechnology in 2017 at the University of León. Her degree thesis was on “Analysis of local ansesthetics on Hyaluronic Acid for Viscosupplementation therapy”.  Subsequently, she finished her master’s degree in Biomedical Biotechnology in 2019 at Polytechnic University of Valencia with a thesis based on “Application of Mesenquimal Stem Cells for Tissue Engineering”, carried out in the Histopatology and Tissue Engineering group at University of Valencia .

She is currently starting his PhD in Active and Smart Materials for Tissue Engineering Applications at BCMaterials under the direction of Unai Silván and Senentxu Lanceros.

Vera Macedo achieved her Integrated Master Material’s Engineering degree in 2021 at University of Minho, Portugal. Her master thesis was “Material and processes to 3D printed electronics” using composites of natural polymers with fillers. The produced ink was printed through the technique of Direct-Ink-Writing in a bioprinter.

The used skills were, inks synthetizing, materials characterization, and Direct-Ink-Writing with bioprinting.

Currently, she is starting her PhD studies in the area of Neutronics at BCMaterials. It will be used to analyse the ion diffusion between electrodes and the solid electrolyte inside the battery.

Expertise
Stereolithography of UV curable resins, thermal and mechanical characterization: DSC, TGA-FTIR, DMTA.

Bio

Dr. Cristian Mendes Felipe obtained his Degree in Chemistry and the Master Degree in New Materials at the University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in Leioa (Spain) in the area of UV curable polymers for 3D printing. He carried out his PhD in Materials Science and Technology at BCMaterials together with the Macromolecular Chemistry Group (labquimac) of the UPV/EHU in the field of Multifunctional photocurable advanced materials for electronics and sensing applications. He has obtained a three years’ fellowship from Basque Government for a postdoc research in the Politecnico of Turin and BCMaterials for the investigation of 4D printing of photocurable polymers obtained from natural sources for smart and multifunctional applications. Dr. Mendes has realized different internships in the University of Buenos Aires and the University of Minho, as well as participated on different international and national conferences. He has published 10 scientific papers in international peer-reviewed journal, most of them as first author, obtaining a special mention by the Wiley Online Library for a publication on the top ten of 2019 mentioned articles in the journal of Advanced Materials Technologies.

Currently, as a postdoc, his investigation will be related to UV and visible light curable materials obtained from plants and other natural sources for applications in electronics, sensing and multifunctional applications.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0801-4103

https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=F3hi4poAAAAJ&hl=es&oi=ao

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Cristian_Mendes3

Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Andrea Moneo is graduated in Chemistry and Master in Nanostructured Materials from the University of Zaragoza. She received her Ph.D. in Chemistry (2019) at Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), with a thesis on bistable molecular materials. She is currently working at BCMaterials, focusing her research on the surface science and the study of the biomaterials interfaces.

Expertise
Nanopatterning (electron beam and interference lithography), thin film deposition, magnetic nanostructure characterization.

Bio
Rafael Morales received his Ph. D degree in Physics from the University of Oviedo, Spain, in 2002. He was awarded with a Fulbright and a Marie Curie fellowship to work at the University of California, San Diego. He joined University of Oviedo and Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology Research Center, CINN, Spain, in 2007. Since 2010, he works at the University of the Basque Country as Ikerbasque Research Professor. He has experience in the fabrication of magnetic heterostructures by physical vapour deposition techniques, magnetic analysis by magnetometry and magneto-optical methods and nanopatterning lithography procedures. His research interests are focused on dimensionality effects in nanoscale magnetic structures, exchange coupled systems with in-plane and out-of-plane anisotropy and the potential of magnetic nanostructures in biomedical applications.

Interests and objetives
Research on magnetic properties of magnetically coupled heterostructures: thin films and nanostructures.
Biomedical application of magnetic nanostructures.

Curriculum Vitae

Muhammed Usman Haris has received his Master Degree in Chemistry from Mahatma Gandhi university Kottayam- India in 2017. His master´s thesis was focused on Synthesis of Graft-Polymers and its applications at National Institute of Technology Calicut(NIT-C)- India. Then he joined National Chemical laboratory, Pune as a research assistant to work in the field of Low Dimensional Perovskites for LED application. He has experienced in synthesis, structural and optical characterizations of hybrid halide perovskite materials. Then He joined with the Advanced Functional Materials group in BCMaterials in August 2019  as a pre-Doc and working towards his PhD under  Prof.Shahzada Ahmad.

Career and achievements

Itziar Oyarzabal received her B.S. Degree in Chemical Sciences in 2011 and her M.Sc. in Applied Chemistry and Polymeric Materials in 2012, both from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU, Donostia-San Sebastián). She obtained her PhD degree (UPV/EHU) in December 2015, under the supervision of Professors José Manuel Seco Botana (UPV/EHU) and Enrique Colacio (University of Granada) and she received the extraordinary PhD award given by UPV/EHU. In 2016 she continued working in the same research group at UPV/EHU thanks to a Postdoctoral Grant from the university and in April 2017 she joined the Molecular Materials & Magnetism (M3) group at Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal (Pessac, France) led by Dr. Rodolphe Clérac. During the postdoctoral period of almost 4 years in France (first due to a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship and after to a Postdoctoral Grant from the Basque Government), she focused her research in the development of metal-organic materials with interesting magnetic properties.

She has published over 30 articles (h-index = 15) in peer-reviewed international journals and has presented her work as invited and oral speaker in several international and national conferences in the area of magnetism and material sciences. Her most important contribution to date is the development of a couple of metal-organic magnets with large coercivity and ordering temperatures up to 242°C (published in Science, 2020).

Expertise
Synthesis under inert-gas atmosphere (Schlenk technique and gloveboxes) and solvothermal synthesis. Single crystal and powder X-ray diffraction. Crystal structure solution and refinement. Magnetic properties of materials.

Interests and objectives

As an Ikerbasque Research Fellow, she plans to continue her research in the area of molecular magnetism.

Links to external profiles

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9149-2511

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Itziar-Oyarzabal

Expertise
Synthesis of new materials, solid state chemistry, X-ray diffraction, electrode preparation, electrochemistry, battery testing

Bio
Verónica Palomares (1981, Bilbao) received her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in 2009. During her Ph.D. She worked on nanostructured cathodes for Li-ion batteries in collaboration with Cidetec-IK4. Her postdoc activity at UPV/EHU focused on new electrode materials for sodium ion batteries. She works now as associate professor at the UPV/EHU with special research interest on producing new environmentally friendly electroactive materials.

Interests and objetives
To contribute to develop Na-ion technology closer to commercial batteries. To prepare new well-performing battery electrodes based on low cost, environmentally friendly materials by “greener” preparative methods.

Curriculum Vitae — ResearchGate

Meenakshi Pegu has received her Master Degree in Chemical Sciences from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-G), Guwahati- India in 2015. On her Master thesis she worked on developing a new Fluorescent Chemo sensor and its Application in the group of Prof. G. Krishnamoorthy. She then moved to Bangalore and joined Indian Institute of Science, as a Research assistant to work under Prof. P. Thilagar in the Ministry of Science and Technology funded project from 2016-2018. She has gained knowledge on the synthesis and characterization of smart molecules. Currently, she is working towards her PhD in the group of Prof. Shahzada Ahmad at BCMaterials, working in Europe excellence project within the European research council framework.

Sonia Pérez-Yáñez is Assistant Professor in the Department of Inorganic Chemistry at the UPV/EHU since 2016. She obtained her PhD degree (UPV/EHU) in 2012, under the supervision of Professors Antonio Luque and Oscar Castillo, and she received from the University of the Basque Country the doctorate extraordinary award related to her research results. During the postdoctoral period, she kept on researching in the development and application of metal-organic materials in the same group given that she was awarded with two different postdoctoral fellowships from the UPV/EHU. During this period, she made a stay at the University of Saint Andrews under the supervision of Paul A. Wright.

Currently, she is member of the Metal-Organic Materials research group. One of the most relevant research lines to which she is devoted deals with the development of porous metal-organic materials such as MBioFs (metal-biomolecule frameworks), SMOFs (supramolecularly assembled metal-organic frameworks) and MOAs (metal-organic aerogels). During the last years, her target research has evolved to obtaining those materials by sustainable methods (i.e. solvent-free) and to applying them for environment remediation.

As a result of her research activity, she has made 50 contributions to scientific journals (h-index: 18) and she is co-author of two international patents.

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Expertise
Polymeric multilayers; polymers modification; stimuli responsive polymers; coordinating work teams and research.

Bio
Leyre Pérez Álvarez works at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) as associate professor. Leyre received her Ph.D. in 2007 and was formally trained in polymer science investigating about polymeric nanogels for anticancer therapies. She joined the Research Group of “Macromolecular Chemistry” of the University of the Basque Country where she is currently working in polymeric multilayers, polymer surface modification and stimuli responsive polymers. She has reported over 14 paper in peer-reviewed international journals in the field of macromolecular science and scientific divulgation.

Interests and objetives
Currently, I participate in the multidisciplinary project funded by MINECO titled “Polymer/Polyoxometalate smart coatings for chemical and biological applications” POCHBA (2014-2017).
I am a member of the Research Group of “Macromolecular Chemistry” of the University of the Basque Country (A Groups 2013-2018).

Curriculum Vitae — ResearchGate

Dr. Nikola Perinka received his M.Sc. in printing engineering and Ph.D. in chemistry and technology of materials, both from University of Pardubice. His main research objective has been focused on formulation and printing of functional materials, as well as device fabrication. He possesses extensive experience in printing process and organic and flexible electronics (such as organic photovoltaics, organic light emitting diodes or sensors). Dr. Perinka has been participating in several national projects and has published several peer-reviewed papers in the field of chemistry and material science. During his Ph.D. he realized several internships in France (École Polytechnique) and Germany (TU-Chemnitz). After his Ph.D. joined Cetemmsa Technological Centre (Mataró-Barcelona, later Eurecat Technology Centre of Catalonia in Spain), where he worked mainly on the CIEN project HyPrint focused on the development of printed hybrid light emitting diodes.

Currently, Dr. Perinka has joined BCMaterials with main research focus on organic and printed electronics. He will participate in several national and international projects with the focus on flexible electronics.

“Printed Electronics, Flexible and Organic Electronics, Conducting Polymers, Printing Technologies, Photophysics and Photonics, Ink Formulation, Functional Materials”

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https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nikola_Perinka

Dr. Viktor Petrenko is experienced in small-angle scattering and reflectometry techniques for structural characterization of various colloidal solutions and soft matter in bulk and at interfaces. His current interest is focused onto application of small-angle neutron and X-ray scattering as well as reflectometry techniques for development of various type colloidal solutions for different applications. The main objects of his study are ferrofluids, solutions of bio-macromolecules, surfactants&polymer solutions, colloidal solutions of fullerenes, layered nanostructures, planar and developed electrochemical interfaces etc. For the moment Dr.V.I.Petrenko has 81 publications in Scopus, h index = 12.

In 2005 he received Master Diploma with Honor at Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University (Ukraine) and then PhD in molecular physics in 2008. Doctor of science diploma in physics and mathematics was received in 2017 at Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University (Ukraine) and title of the work was “Structure and physical properties of magnetic fluids”.

During PhD study he has performed a lot of small-angle scattering experiments at IBR-2 reactor in JINR (Russia) as well as at Budapest Neutron Center (Hungary). The PhD work was devoted to small-angle neutron scattering study of magnetic fluids and surfactants which are used for its stabilization.

During postdoc researches Dr. Petrenko personally participated in scattering experiments at the Paul Scherrer Institute (Villigen, Swiss); MLZ (Garching, Germany); HZG (Geesthacht, Germany); DESY (Hamburg, Germany) etc. Also he has received several grants/fellowships for short term stay in Germany, Slovakia and Hungary.

For the last several years he was invited to international conferences with Invited talk as well as to present his works at various seminars.

During scientific career Dr. Viktor Petrenko was awarded by different diploma and prizes for the neutron scattering research works. Thus, in research team he got

• First JINR prize for 2018 in Applied physics research (Russia, 2019);
• Prize of President of Ukraine for young scientists (Ukraine, 2013);
• Prizes of FLNP JINR for scientific works in condensed matter physics (Russia, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2017);
• M. Frank scholarship (Russia, 2017);
• National Scholarship Program of the Slovak Republic for PhD (Slovak Republic, 2015 and 2017);
• Letter of commendation from Presidium of Ukraine National Academy of Science for cycle of scientific works (Ukraine, 2012);
• L. Shapiro scholarship (Russia, 2011).

Bio
Dr. Jose María Porro is currently an Ikerbasque Research Fellow at BCMaterials, Leioa, Bizkaia, Spain. He obtained his “licenciatura en física” (2008), his Master in Nanoscience (2010) and his PhD in Materials Physics (2014), from the University of the Basque Country. He developed his PhD at the nanomagnetism group of CIC nanoGUNE (Donostia-San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa, Spain), under the supervision of Prof. Paolo Vavassori. After his PhD, he was a post-doctoral research associate at the ISIS neutron and muon source of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (Oxfordshire, UK) until September 2017. At the same time, he was a visiting scientist at the Diamond Light Source synchrotron of the UK. In 2017 he secured a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship (MSCA-IF) at BCMaterials, followed by an Ikerbasque Fellowship in late 2019 at the same institution. He has undergone research stays at leading international research institutions such as the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (California, USA), the Brookhaven National Laboratory (New York, USA), the Institute Laue-Langevin (Grenoble, France), the Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut of the University of Groningen (Netherlands) and the Nanotechnology Core Facility of the University of Illinois at Chicago (USA).

He has secured funding for this research activities, both as PI and as project member, from European (H2020, MSCA actions), international (EPSRC, UK), national (MINECO RETOS) and regional (PIBA, ELKARTEK) funding schemes. He is author and co-author of around 30 research articles published in indexed international leading peer-reviewed journals. He contributes to the organization of conferences and workshops, participating as member of the Program Committee of international conferences and workshops. He participated in international and national conferences with invited and oral talks. He is currently member of the Magnetic Materials Committee of the TMS (The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society) of the USA, and of the user committee of the IBR-2 neutron source (Dubna, Russia). He is an Editorial Board Member of the journal Magnetochemistry (IF: 2.193), an evaluator for the Spanish AEI on “Generación de conocimento” project calls, and scientific expert (evaluator of neutron beamtime proposals) in the panel “Nanosystems and soft matter” for the IBR-2 neutron source, as well as for ANSTO, the Australian Neutron Source. He has supervised three Master Thesis, as well as several TFGs and short research internships, and currently supervises three PhD students.

Research interests
His expertise focalizes in the investigation of magnetic shape memory alloys in polycrystalline, single-crystal and thin film forms, as well as in nanomagnetism, and in particular in thin film and interacting nanostructures’ magnetism. Complementary to these, his research interests also include the design and fabrication of patterned magnetic micro and nanostructures by means of advanced lithography techniques, and in the characterization of all the aforementioned materials by means of large-scale facilities such as synchrotron and neutron radiation sources. His current research activities include the design and development of ferromagnetic shape memory alloys undergoing patterning processes, the study of all-optical switching phenomena in magnetic multi-layered thin films, and the study of a novel class of interacting magnetic materials called Artificial Spin-Ices.

Javier Reguera received his M.S. degree in Physics and Ph.D. in Materials Science at the University of Valladolid (2008, Valladolid, Spain). He performed his doctoral thesis with a FPI fellowship (Researcher personnel in formation) and later as assistant lecturer at the School of Engineering at University of Valladolid, under the supervision of Prof. J.C. Rodriguez-Cabello in the field of smart elastin-like polymers with multisensitivity. During his doctoral thesis Dr. Reguera performed several research stays at different European research institutions: Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry (Prage, Czech Republic), University of Nottingham (Nottingham, UK), and at ICSI-CNRS (Mulhouse, France).

In 2009 J. Reguera was awarded with a Fulbright fellow grant to perform a postdoctoral stay at MIT (USA) at the group of Prof. F. Stellacci. In 2011 J. Reguera moved to EPFL (Switzerland) where he contributed to the formation of a new research laboratory under the supervision of Prof. F. Stellacci. During this time J. Reguera focused on the studies of self-assembled monolayers on the surface of metal nanoparticles. In November 2014, J. Reguera was awarded with an Ikerbasque fellow contract and started working at CIC biomaGUNE (Spain) at the laboratory of Prof. Luis M. Liz-Marzán.

J. Reguera is a co-author of more than 40 publications and has presented his research in more than 50 conferences. He has been awarded with a Fulbright and Ikerbasque fellowships, and with the university extraordinary doctorate prize and the award of the Spanish group of polymers (GEP – RSEQ, RSEF).

J. Reguera current research interest is: design and characterization of novel multifunction patchy nanoparticles, assembly and self-assembly of nanoparticles, and biomedical application of nanoparticles.

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Expertise
I have a 3 year´s experience on Molecular Dynamics simulations of mechanical and thermal properties for polymeric systems.
I have a large experience with thermical characterization techics (DSC and TGA) and mechanical charactyerization technics (DMTA)

Bio

Graduated in environmental sciences from the University of the Basque Country (UPV / EHU) in 2015 and after taking a master’s degree in New Materials from the same university, in 2020 I completed my phd entitled “Tailoring bombyx mori silk as multifuctional material for advanced applications” , developed at the BCMaterials – Basque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures foundation, a center included in the BERC (Basque Excellence Research Centers) network, in collaboration with the EPV / EHU macromolecular chemistry group (LABQUIMAC). Currently, as a post-doctoral researcher in the Basque Government program, I focus my work on the development of inks from bio-based materials and their printing by additive manufacturing at the Phil and Penny Knight Campus in Oregon, in collaboration with BCMaterials.

With the aim of advancing towards sustainability, my work is focused on the revaluation of bio-based materials. In addition, I have worked on molecular dynamics simulations, as well as in the development and characterization of polymeric materials. As part of various national and international research and projects, I have worked on several research areas such as electronics, catalysis, adsorption of pollutants, energy and biomedicine.

Aware of the capacity for knowledge as a way of personal and social empowerment, I dedicate part of my efforts to scientific dissemination,  mainly, as a member of the association for the dissemination of scientific culture, LOGOS elkartea (https://crystalclear.es/). Also I have participated in acts and events of scientific dissemination such as Zientziaz Blai (https://n9.cl/mow5) and We are scientists (https://somoscientificos.es/).

Curriculum Vitae

Career and achievements, present tasks and professional objectives

Carmen Rial received her BS in Physics from the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain. She carried out her MS and PhD in Materials Science and Technology at the Instituto de Ceramica in the same university. Her dissertation focused on the fabrication of 3D photonic bandgap crystals for infrared and terahertz band by 3D printing technique. As a postdoc, her research activities have been mainly focused on 3D printing functional materials, components, and devices, which include photonic crystals, catalysts, tissue engineering scaffolds, and vacularized tissues. She has published 13 scientific papers in international peer-reviewed journals, 11 of them as first author, and she is also the author or co-author of more than 25 contributions at national and international conferences.
Her research interests span a range of topics in materials science and engineering, but focus in particular on the area of 3D printing, ceramics, colloidal science, and polymers.
Currently, she is involved in the development of polymer composites with suitable piezoresistive/piezocapacitive responses for sensor and actuator applications.

List of abilities:
3D Printing/Robocasting
Colloidal synthesis
Spin/dip coating
High temperature treatments
Surface&structural analysis (SEM, TEM, XRD, optical microscope)
Thermal analysis techniques (DTA, TG, dilatometry)
Rheological characterization (rotational rheometer and viscometer)
Mechanical characterization (microhardness tester, compression)

Links to external profiles:
SCHOOLAR GOOGLE:
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Mikel Rincón Iglesias obtained his bachelor Degree in Chemistry with a final project about “Evaluation of the migration of benzophenone types photoinitiators into several food simulants in cardboard packaging” in June 2017 at the Analytical Chemistry Group of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). Afterwards, he continued his Master studies in Energies and Fuels for the future at Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), which he finished in June 2018. Furthermore, he did an internship at Institute of Materials Science of Madrid (ICMM-CSIC), where concluded his Master Thesis about “Influence of the presence of graphene sheets in the hydrothermal synthesis of carbon spheres” in the Photonic Crystals Group.
Nowadays, Mikel is performing his PhD studies developing multifunctional inks for printed flexible devices.

Interests and objetives
Currently he is working on the project “Development of printed sensors and actuators based on multifunctional inks”. The principal objective of this project is to process and characterize inks for applications on magntetic, magnetoresistive, magnetostrictive and magneto-electric devices (and therefore also piezoelectric). The inks will be developed both for screen printing and for inkjet printing technologies.

Natalia Río López graduated in Chemistry in 2019 at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). Her degree thesis was on “Synthesis and characterization of carbon nanomaterials for its use in supercapacitors”. Afterwards, she continued her studies with a masters´ degree in New Materials, which she finished developing a thesis on “Ferromagnetic shape memory alloys for its use as micro and nanoactuators” at BCMaterials and the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).

Currently, she is starting her PhD focused on the development of smart and tunable surfaces made of magnetic shape memory alloys.

Corina Rodríguez Esteban graduated in Chemistry in 2019 at the University of Sevilla. Her degree thesis was on “Synthesis and characterization of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) for environmental applications”, at the Inorganic Chemistry Group of the Faculty of Chemistry of Sevilla.

Subsequently, she finished her master’s degree in Science and Technology of New Materials in 2020 at the University of Sevilla with a thesis based on the development of lanthanide-based trimodal nanoparticles contrast agent for luminescence, magnetic resonance and X-ray computed tomography imaging, carried out in the Colloidal Materials Group of the Material Science Institute (ICMS) of Sevilla.

Currently, she is starting her PhD at BCMaterials in the field of molecular magnetism under the direction of Itziar Oyarzabal.

Paula Rodríguez Lejarraga graduated in Chemistry in 2020 at the University of Salamanca (USAL). Her degree thesis was on “Theoretical study of inelastic collisions of He with OH⁺ in triplet and singlet state” at the physical-chemistry group of the Faculty of Science.

Subsequently, she studies a Master´s Degree in New Materials in 2021 at the University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and the University of Cantabria (UC). She development her final master work at BCMaterials with the title of “Capacitive gas sensors based on porous metal-organic frameworks and ionic liquids composites”.

Currently, she is developing her PhD in BCMaterials in the field of new materials generation for tissue regeneration.

J.J. Rosero-Romo, received the title of Physical Engineer in 2016, and his M.Eng. in Materials and Process Engineering in 2019 from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellìn and candidate to a student of the PhD. in science and technology in 2021 in the Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea. From 2016 to 2020, he worked for the Facultad de Minas, laboratory of Biomaterials in the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellìn. His research interests include Biosensors, methods electrochemistry and technique characterization of materials.

“Currently, I am involved in MULTI-FUN project, to the development of novel materials and progress of Additive Manufacturing, my other interest lies in the field of surfaces modification and development of biosensors.”

Areas of action

• Engineering and Technology – Nanotechnology – Nanomaterials (Production and Properties)
• Medical and health sciences – Biotechnology in health – Biomaterials (related to implants, devices, biosensors)

Expertise

• Research and development

Operation of: The Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) Carl zeiss, Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) Park System NX 10, microRaman confocal spectrometer HORIBA and Knowledge in Electrochemical Techniques.

o Documentation

o Material characterization

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Expertise
Synthesis and characterization of polymeric materials. (NMR, FTIR, UV-VIS…)
Thermal properties and degradation (DSC, TGA, DMTA..)
Surface modification and characterization ( XPS, SEM, AC, TEM..)

Bio
Dr. Leire Ruiz Rubio is Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Chemistry at UPV/EHU since 2015. She is part of the Macromolecular Chemistry Group of Physical Chemistry Dept. since 2004. Her research has focused on the synthesis and characterization of polymeric materials, and the development of nanostruturated surfaces and stimuli responsive materials. She made two short stays of two weeks at Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères Organiques at Bordeaux I University (France) and at ICTP-CSIC, in which she has the opportunity of working with Dr. Juan Rodriguez Hernandez and achieve an important knowledge about surface modification. Also, she made a 3 month stay as Invited Reseacher at Reading University (UK) focused in the development of new drug delivery formulations and the characterization of the mucoadhesive properties under the supervision of Prof. Vitaliy Khutoryanskiy. The most relevant results of her research are reflected both in her Ph. D. thesis and in several articles, 22 articles with 120 citations and h-index of 7.

Interests and objetives
She has focused her research in surface modification techniques, the develop novel optical biosensors, antibacterial hydrogels, self-healable hydrogels based on organic-inorganic interactions, nano/microstuctured polymer thin films and layer-by-layer assemblies.

Curriculum Vitae — Google Scholar — ResearcherID — ResearchGate

Expertise
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Bio
Dr. José Javier Sáiz Garitaonandia received his PhD from University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in 1998. His PhD thesis based on the use of the Mössbauer spectroscopy for the study of magnetic phase transitions and transformations. He received the extraordinary prize for PhD thesis for that thesis dissertation in 2000. Together with Prof. Fernando Plazaola he founded the Nuclear Techniques Laboratory of UPV/EHU. His areas of interests are centred on the study of the magnetic nanostructures and magnetic mesoscopic systems using element selective techniques such as Mössbauer spectroscopy and synchrotron and neutron techniques. He has published 98 articles in scientific journals, receiving around 1000 citations with a current h-index of 18 (source: web of science core collection February 2015).

Interests and objetives
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Expertise
Atomic force microscopy (AFM), X-Ray difractogram (XRD), Optical measurements (J-V curves, Quantum efficiency (QE), Impedance Spectroscopy (IS), Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), fabrication of solar cell devices (pervoskite based).

Bio
Manuel Salado Manzorro received his PhD in Material Science in 2017, from Abengoa Research (www.abengoa.com) along with Pablo de Olavide University (www.upo.es), under the supervision of Prof. Shahzada Ahmad. He was recognized as the first PhD student to be awarded with the Industrial mention by the Pablo de Olavide University. The main goal of his PhD was the study and development of hybrid perovskite interfaces for the improvement in stability and efficiency of photovoltaics solar cells. His background as a Chemical Engineer and his subsequent Master degree in Nanomaterialsand nanostructures (www.unizar) were beneficial to assess and improve the processes related with the fabrication (scale-up) and development on products based on perovskites. He has written over 15 papers in peer-reviewed international journals, 2 Book chapters and he is also co-inventor of 2 patents in the field of perovskite solar cells.”

Interests and objetives
One of the key points of my PhD was the improvement in device performance and stability of perovskite based solar cells; Working on MOLEMAT (Molecularly Engineered Materials and process for Perovskite solar cell technology) project will give me the oportunity to keep understanding the kinetics of the devices, improving their stability and undertaking new techniques to elucidate the role of the different compounds in perovskite material.

Curriculum Vitae — ResearchGate

Expertise
Single-crystal growth by floating zone method, magnetic properties and electrical transport, instrumentation design and engineering.

Bio
Daniel Salazar Jaramillo is an electronic engineer from the Universidad del Quindío (2007) who received the doctor degree in physics and mathematics from the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha in 2012. He started his research on nanostructured and granular magnetic materials, transition metal oxides, magnetic properties and electrical transport in nanocrystalline oxides, magnetic, structural and thermal properties in strongly correlated electron systems during his PhD. Since late 2013 he is joined to the BCMaterials in a postdoctoral position and currently is focused on the study of the magnetocaloric effect and their physical features on single crystals of magnetic shape memory alloys and on the coercivity enhancement of nanostructured hard magnets by grain boundary engineering.

Interests and objetives

• Study of the magnetocaloric effect and their physical features on single crystals of magnetic shape memory alloys.
• Coercivity enhancement of nanostructured hard magnets by grain boundary engineering.

Curriculum Vitae — Google Scholar — ResearcherID

Esraa Samy Abu Serea graduated from Faculty of Science at Cairo University (2018), Cairo, Egypt with B.Sc. in Chemistry & Biochemistry. Subsequently, she continued his Master studies in New Materials and finished her master’s degree in 2020 at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and the University of Cantabria (UC) with a thesis based Hybrid magnetic-plasmonic nanostructures for with shape anisotropy hyperthermia treatments, carried out in BCMaterials under the supervision of Dr. Javier Reguera-Gómez.

Recently, she is performing her Ph.D. at BCMaterials, in Nanoparticle and Smart polymer composites.

Interests and objectives

Currently I am working in the Project entitled “Nanoparticle and Smart polymer composites for active control of cell microenvironments in biomedical applications” funded by Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.

The main objective of this project is to synthesis and characterize new magnetic and plasmonic Nanoparticles which have a great effect to kill the cancer cells through hyperthermia.

Ahmed Esmail Shalan worked as a researcher at Central Metallurgical R&D Institute, Egypt after finishing his PhD. He had obtained his PhD (2017) from the Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Japan, in the group of Prof. Dr. Hiroaki Misawa with the collaboration of Prof. Dr. Eric Diau -NCTU- Taiwan. It worth to mention that he got a prize during his Ph.D. as the best thesis at the graduate school of information science and technology, Hokkaido university and Ministry of Education Prize. Before he joined Hokkaido University he obtained a fellowship at DAAD visiting scholar internship in (i-MEET-FAU), Erlangen, Germany with Prof. Christoph J. Brabec and CIN2, UAB, Barcelona, Spain with Prof. Monica Lira Cantu. He published almost 30 papers in prestige journals (with h index of 14). Besides, he is an active reviewer for several journals (such as Electrochimica Acta, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, RSC Advances, etc.), a member in the editorial board of different prestigious publishers and have been invited to write several reviews and books chapters and have already published 6 book chapters. Also, he has been invited to give talks in conferences and Institutes.

Interests and objectives:
I have a strong background in chemistry, nanotechnology and materials science. Also, I have a sufficient experience in the field of materials and processes for applications in energy and photonics, with emphasis on halide perovskites. In addition, my experience with fabrication and characterization of solution-processed perovskite-based solar cells devices is shown through my publications.

Expertise:
X-Ray difractogram (XRD), X-Ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Atomic force microscopy (AFM), Optical measurements (J-V curves, Quantum efficiency (QE), Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS), Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), fabrication of solar cell devices (dye, organic and pervoskite based).

Expertise

Cell and Cancer Biology, Light Microscopy, Biomechanics, Cytoskeleton.

Bio

Dr. Unai Silvan studied Biochemistry at the University of the Basque Country and then joined the laboratory of Professor J. Aréchaga (Department of Cell Biology and Histology, UPV/EHU) as a doctoral student. In his dissertation (summa cum laude and dissertation prize) he developed a new in vivo model for the study of testicular germ cell tumors (TGCTs) based on the transplantation of embryonic stem cells (ESCs) into the seminiferous tubules of mice. In addition, he completed a research stay in the laboratory of Professor M.A. Konerding at the University of Mainz (Germany) to learn the techniques to quantify the vascularization of experimentally induced tumors and participated in the analysis of the cancerous microenvironment. In 2008, Unai joined Cora-Ann Schoenenberger’s group at the Müller Institute at the Biocenter of Basel (University of Basel, Switzerland) as a postdoctoral fellow and had the opportunity to contribute to the knowledge of unconventional actin configurations. He was also involved in the study of the tumorigenic effect of an actin point mutation in mammalian cells and was able to use various biochemical and imaging techniques, including TIRF and electron microscopy, to understand the importance of an unconventional actin configuration in the patterning of different supramolecular structures as well as in polymerization. In 2012, Unai was appointed senior research fellow and head of the Cancer Cell Mechanics group in Professor Jess Snedeker’s laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich, Switzerland), where he investigated the role of the cytoskeleton in the development and progression of cancer, and quantified the response of cells to different biomaterials. Unai has published over 40 research articles and book chapters, which have received over 600 citations (h-index 14), and his work has been presented at over 60 national and international conferences.

Interests and objectives

In 2020, Unai joined BCMaterials as an Ikerbasque Research Associate in order to establish a group in the field of biomaterials, in which he will investigate the influence of the biomaterial-extracellular matrix interface on immune and somatic cells.

Rubén Teijido Fernández received his Chemistry graduate (2019) and his Master´s degree in New Materials (2020), both from “Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU)” in Leioa, Spain. In 2017 h started to collaborate with the Chemistry Physics department in its macromolecular chemistry research group under the supervision of associate professor Leire Ruiz Rubio and department director Jose Luis Vilas Vilela. Since then he has followed diverse investigation lines gaining experience with the most commonly employed methodologies and techniques in polymer science. Once a proper initial experience was achieved, he focused his work in hybrid biopolymer-inorganic hydrogel systems, developing both his grade and master’s thesis in developing and studying chitosan-polyoxometalate hybrid hydrogels. In September 2020 he joined BCMaterials as predoctoral researcher to develop his thesis in the developing of alginate-based anticorrosion coatings for metallic pieces under the supervision of Qi Zhang (BCMaterials) and Leire Ruiz Rubio (UPV/EHU).

Currently, besides his recently started predoctoral research, he is still involved with macromolecular chemistry department at UPV/EHU, following the research line of developing new multifunctional hybrid hydrogels with applications in biomedicine.

His abilities include the synthesis and characterization of hybrid hydrogels, including: thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), diferential scanning calorimetry (DSC), dynamical mechanical analysis (DMA), fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and contact angle, among others.

ATTENDED SCIENTIFIC CONGRESSES:

Jovenes Investigadores en Polimeros (JIP 2019) in Universidad de Burgos (UBU). Oral Communication. Title: ESTRUCTURAS HÍBRIDAS POLÍMERO POLIOXOMETALATO: INTERACCIONES, PROPIEDADES TÉRMICAS Y COMPORTAMIENTO DE AUTO REPARACIÓN.

Joseba Totoricaguena graduated in Physics in 2018 and in Electronic Engineering in 2019 at the University of Basque Country. Focusing his degree thesis on radio-frequency applications of thin films at the Electricity and Electronics department of the Faculty of Science and Technology of Leioa.

Subsequently, he finished his master degree in New Materials in 2020 at the University of Basque Country and the University of Cantabria and a master degree in Teachers in 2020 at the International University of Valencia (VIU). His New Materials master thesis was “Nanostructured thin films-based elements: focus on high frequency applications”.

He is currently starting his PhD in at BCMaterials Integration of multifunctional materials for biodetection in microfluidic platforms under the direction of Francisco Javier del Campo (BCMaterials) and Fernando Benito (UPV/EHU).

Mikel Undagoitia received his bachelor degree in chemistry from the University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in 2018 with a thesis about the development of fluorophosphate cathodic materials for sodium ion batteries and its application in high scale stationary batteries. Later, he obtained his master´s degree in New Materials in 2019 from the University of Basque Country. His master´s thesis degree was on the development of cathodic fluorophosphate-phosphate cathodic composite materials, also for sodium-ion batteries. Subsequently, he joined Leartiker (BRTA, Mondragon Corporation) as researcher and manager of Relicario project (Recycling of end-of-life carbon fibre reinforced plastics), an international project founded by EIT Raw Materials (European Institute of Innovation and Technology), collaborating with many companies as Extracthive, French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), Veolia, MAIER and University of Ghent (Ugent). His work was focused on the characterisation of recycled carbon fibres by solvolysis and their compounding with different thermoplastics for automotive applications. During this research stage, he had the opportunity to work with Professor Wim Van Paepegem, world-renowned expert in composite behaviour. After almost two years, in 2021, he decided to join BCMaterials to start his PhD in the field of sustainable batteries under the direction of Juan Pablo Esquivel and Verónica Palomares.

Maitane Urgoiti Rodríguez graduated in Chemistry in 2020 at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). Her degree thesis based on “Synthesis and electrochemical characterization of molybdenum chalcogenides as Na-ion battery electrodes” carried out in the Department of Organic and Inorganic Chemistry of the Faculty of Science and Technology of Leioa.

Subsequently, she finished her master´s degree in New Materials in 2021 at the University of Basque Country and the University of Cantabria with a thesis based on “Study of solid solutions of type Mo₆Se_(8-x)S_x (x=0,2,4,6,8) as electrodes in sodium ion batteries” carried out in the Department of Organic and Inorganic Chemistry of the Faculty of Science and Technology of Leioa.

She is currently starting his PhD in development of new materials for energy applications at BCMaterials.

Ainara Valverde de Mingo graduated in Chemistry in 2017 at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). Her degree thesis was on polymeric coatings with antibacterial properties in the Macromolecular Chemistry Laboratory of the Faculty of Science and Technology of Leioa.

Subsequently, she finished her master’s degree in New Materials in 2018 at the University of the Basque Country and the University of Cantabria with a thesis based on hyaluronic acid and chitosan coatings onto titanium substrates for their use in implants and prothesis, carried out in the Macromolecular Chemistry Laboratory of the Faculty of Science and Technology.

Currently, she is starting her PhD at BCMaterials, in the field of multifunctional materials for environmental sensing and water remediation based on Metal Organic Framework polymeric composites. Her research will be also focused in the study of these materials by different neutronic techniques.

Expertise:

Surface modification and characterization (XPS, SEM, AC, TEM…)
Synthesis and characterization of polymeric materials. (NMR, FTIR, UV-VIS…)
Thermal properties and degradation (DSC, TGA…)

Expertise
J.L. Vilas is currently an Associate Professor in Physical Chemistry at the Physical Chemistry Department of the University of the Basque Country. He is the head of the Macromolecular Chemistry Group. His current research interests include synthesis and characterization of polymeric materials, focusing in polymeric materials and composites with smart properties, like shape memory properties, electric properties and so on, and the synthesis of biocompatible polymers and polymers from renewable sources. He received his PhD in Chemistry in 1999 from the University of Basque Country. After working in different companies related with the synthesis and processing of polymeric materials he moved back to the university. He is member of several international associations, and he holds 100 publications and 3 patents.

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Aritz Villar graduated in Physics in 2020 at the University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU). His degree thesis was titled “Shape memory alloys elaborated by powder-metallurgy”.

After that, he continued his studies with a master’s degree in New Materials, which he finished in 2021. His master’s thesis was “Ultra-short pulses, application to magnetism” which was his starting point to his currently developing PhD thesis “Ultrafast All-Optical switching in nanostructured magnetic metamaterials” at the BCMaterials and the University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU) under the supervision of Dr. José María Porro. Both thesis are focused in the study of the All-Optical Switching phenomena in ferromagnetic thin films.

Madeline’s research focuses primarily on conductive metal organic frameworks and their applications in energy storage. Before joining BCMaterials, Madeline received her Master’s Degree from the University of Colorado and her Bachelor’s Degree from Colorado College (Boettcher Scholar).

Her previous research projects include

• The design and synthesis of small molecule drugs for the treatment of neglected tropical diseases and cancers
• The study of hydrogen bonding patterns along and within cell membranes to develop better organ preservation methods
• The synthesis of a series of core-shell metal organic frameworks for applications in drug delivery
• The characterization and development of redox-flow battery electrolytes for grid scale energy storage

In addition to presenting her work to scientists in the United States and Europe, Madeline has also been invited to speak with members of the US congress and senate about her research.  She looks forward to developing new methods and materials to make practical improvements to the lives of those around her!

Yifeng received his bachelor’s degree of manufacturing in Hunan University in China in 2013.

And then he worked as an engineer for a company producing aeroengine parts until 2019. During his work, he was sent by the Chinese Scholarship Council to UK for a master’s degree. He finished his master of materials in Cranfield University in UK in 2018. The master thesis project was about ZnO gas sensing films and was under the supervision of Professor Jose Luis Endrino and Dr. Christopher Shaw.

In the year 2020, he started to pursue his PhD title and the program is about the recycle of lithium-ion batteries under the supervision of Professor Qi Zhang and Dr. Eider GoiKolea.

BIO

Stefan Wuttke created the research group “Wuttkegroup for Science”, initially hosted at the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the University of Munich (LMU, Germany). Currently, he is an Ikerbasque Professor at the Basque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures (BCMaterials, Spain). His research is focused on developing methodologies to read and write chemical information from and onto the backbone of hybrid framework materials. In addition, his research interests also include the acquisition of a fundamental understanding of the chemical and physical processes involved in their synthesis and functionalization.

http://wuttkescience.com/

Yu Xiangjiang received his M.S. degree in the State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and Materials at University of Science and Technology Beijing in 2020, under the supervision of Prof. Ye Feng and his research focused on the structure and phase transformation process of Al/Ni multilayers.

He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Stefan Wuttke, focusing on the microfluidic synthesis of MOFs and encapsulate enzymes into MOFs.

Amaia Zarandona Rodríguez graduated in Chemical Engineering in 2017 at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). Her bachelor thesis was on “Regeneration of the catalyst for hydrogen production” and it was carried out in the department of Chemical Engineering (Leioa). Afterwards, she finished her master’s degree in Chemical Engineering in 2019 at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and the University of Cantabria (UC). Her master thesis was on “Improvement of the thermal conductivity of different types of elastomers through the modification of the loads” with a fellowship in FLEXIX.

After that, she worked at VITO, an independent Flemish research organization in the area of cleantech and sustainable development, during 1 year. Her main work consisted in developing a novel electrochemical process for the transformation of glucose into added-value chemicals.

Nowadays, she is working on her PhD in the area of active and smart materials at the BCMaterials.

Orysia Zaremba received her B.Sc. in Chemistry in 2017 from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine and M.Sc. in Materials Science in 2019 from Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Russia. She also worked as an assistant researcher in Nagoya University, Japan. In BCMaterials, she will work as a pre-doctoral researcher in the area of metal organic compounds synthesis under supervision of Prof. Stefan Wuttke. So far, she has published 5 papers in peer-reviewed international journals in the field of nanomaterials and materials science.

Q. Zhang graduated in physical chemistry at Wuhan University, Wuhan, China in 1982. He received his MSc in inorganic materials at Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China in 1986. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in chemistry at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia in 1995. He is now an Ikerbasque research professor in BCMaterials. Before that, he worked in Cranfield University, UK as a research fellow in 1996, a senior research fellow in 1998, a senior lecturer in 2007, and now a visiting academia. He has been a visiting professor in Wuhan University of Technology, China since 2012.
Zhang’s work is focused on the areas of functional materials for sensors, actuators and electrocaloric cooling, as well as on energy materials for electrochemical energy storage and on coatings for surface engineering. He has published more than 200 ISI papers and 4 chapters in books with a total citation of ~ 4000 and H-factor of 32. Some of his publications appeared in journals with high impact factors, such as, Science, Energy & Environ. Sci., Mater. Sci. and Eng. R: Report, Adv. Funct. Mater., Nano Energy and Nano Lett., among others. In addition, he co-edited the book entitled Electrocaloric Cooling (EC). He received Brian Mercer Feasibility Award, 2009, The Royal Society, UK.

Fangyuan Zheng graduated in Chemical Engineering in 2014 at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). She did her degree thesis based on Effect of NaOH concentration in the desilication of Pt/HY catalysts for Polystyrene hydrocracking in the Department of Chemical Engineering of the Faculty of Science and Technology.

Subsequently, she finished her master’s degree in Chemical Engineering in 2016 at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and the University of Cantabria (UC) with a thesis based on Water treatment for Thermal Solar Power Plants, carried out in SENER Ingeniería y Sistemas S.A. where she did an internship. Afterwards, she worked as a Technical Responsible Engineer in the Thermal Solar Power Plants in SENER Ingeniería y Sistemas S.A.

Since December 2017, she was employed as a Project Engineer for Wind Turbine Test Bench projects in IDOM Consulting, Engineering, Architecture S.A. She is currently starting her PhD in multifunctional hybrid nanoparticles for catalytic and biomedical application at BCMaterials.