PhD Congrats

Doctor Judit Tomsen from the Molecular Nanoscience and Organic Materials (NANOMOL) Group at ICMAB, defended her PhD thesis titled "Study of new liposomes for the delivery of enzymes through biological membranes" on Thursday, 15 July 2021 in an online session. Congrats!

Doctor Pau Molet from the Nanostructured Materials for Optoelectronics and Energy Harvesting (NANOPTO) group at ICMAB, defended his PhD thesis titled "Managing light in optoelectronic devices with resonant optical nanostructures" on Friday, 18 June 2021 in an online session. Congrats!

Doctor Irene Anton from the Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites (NN) group at ICMAB, defended her PhD thesis titled "Opportunities for bacterial nanocellulose in healthcare. Uses as a cell carrier, corneal bandage and tissue reinforcement" on Thursday, 3 June 2021 in an online session. Congrats!

Doctor Saúl Estandía from the Multifunctional Thin Films and Complex Structures (MULFOX) group at ICMAB, defended his PhD thesis titled "Nanoscale Study of Epitaxial Ferroelectric Hf_0.5Zr_0.5O₂ Thin Films and BaTiO₃/SrTiO₃ Superlattices" on Friday, 28 May 2021 in an online session. Congrats!

Doctor Milena Cervo from the Multifunctional Thin Films and Complex Structures (MULFOX) group at ICMAB, defended her PhD thesis titled "Resistive Switching in Hf_0.5Zr_0.5O₂ ferroelectric tunnel junctions" on Wednesday, 26 May 2021 in an online session. Congrats!

Doctor Osnat Zapata from the Nanostructured Materials for Optoelectronics and Energy Harvesting (NANOPTO) group at ICMAB, defended his PhD thesis titled "Improving the performance of organic thermoelectrics" on Friday, 26 March 2021 in an online session. Congrats!

Doctor Sandra Giraldo from the Functional Nanomaterials & Surfaces (FunNanoSurf) Group at ICMAB, defended her PhD thesis titled "Electroactive self-assembled monolayers: p-donor/p-acceptor interactions to induce transport along of the surface" on Friday, 26 February 2021 in an online session. Congrats!

Doctor Zheng Ma from the Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites (NN) group at ICMAB, defended his PhD thesis titled "Synthesis and Characterization of ε-Fe₂O₃ Nanoparticles and Thin Films" on Tuesday, 9 February 2021 in an online session. Congrats!

Doctor Ana Begoña Buades from the Inorganic Materials And Catalysis Lab (LMI) at ICMAB, defended her PhD thesis titled "Metallacarboranes: Synthesis of Boron-Heteroatom Derivatives and Applications in Energy and Magnetism" on Thursday, 28 January 2021 in an online session. Congrats!

Doctor Camilla Dore from the Nanostructured Materials for Optoelectronics and Energy Harvesting (NANOPTO) group at ICMAB, defended her PhD thesis titled "Hydroxypropyl Cellulose as Enabling Material for the Nanofabrication of Photonic Architectures" on Friday, 29 January 2021 in an online session. Congrats!

Doctor Rogger P. Palacios from the Physical Chemistry of Surfaces and Interfaces (SURFACES) group at ICMAB, defended his PhD thesis titled "Structure and Electronic Properties at Molecular Level of Organic Structures" on Wednesday, 27 January 2021 in an online session. Congrats!

Doctor Hailin Wang from the Superconducting Materials and Large Scale Nanostructures (SUMAN), and Advanced Characterization and Nanostructured Materials (ACNM) groups at ICMAB defended his PhD thesis entitled "Epitaxial growth of complex functional oxide thin films by green and sustainable chemical solution methods" on Tuesday, 15 December 2020. The PhD Thesis was supervised by Narcís Mestres and Benjamín Martínez. Congrats!

Doctor Guillem Vargas from the Nanomol group at ICMAB defended his PhD thesis entitled "Novel Quatsome nanovesicles, prepared using compressed CO₂, for the development of advanced nanomedicines" on Friday, 23 October 2020 in an online session. The PhD Thesis was supervised by Nora Ventosa, Nanomol Group, and Lídia Ferrer, Nanomol Technologies. 

Doctor Eduardo Pérez from the NANOMOL Group at ICMAB defended his PhD thesis entitled "3D Systems for immune cells culture and their applications in Immunotherapy" and supervised by Imma Ratera and Judith Guasch, on Thursday, 2 April 2020, at 11 am from home!

Doctor Researcher Dolores Bueno, from the NANOMOL Group at ICMAB, defended her PhD thesis on Friday, 20 March 2020. Her PhD Thesis was entitled "Peptide functionalized nanoliposomes for biomolecule intracellular delivery, prepared using compressed CO₂" and was supervised by Nora Ventosa and Elisabet González. If you want to know more about Dolores' experience during her PhD and her future plans, continue reading this post! 

Doctor Cristiano Matricardi from the NANOPTO Group defended his PhD thesis entitled "Hybrid plasmonic-photonic nanostructures for enhanced spectroscopy" and supervised by Agustín Mihi, on Friday, 21 February 2020 at the ICMAB. Congratulations for the good job! If you know more about him, his research and his future steps, continue reading!

Doctor Núria Portolés Gil from the Supercritical Fluids and Functional Matirials Group at ICMAB defended her PhD thesis on Monday, 18 November 2019. Her thesis was entitled "Green synthesis of coordination polymers using supercritical carbon dioxide", and was supervised by Dr. Concepción Domingo and Dr. Ana Maria López-Periago, from the ICMAB, and Dr. Jose Antonio Ayllón, from the UAB. Congratulations, Núria! Continue reading to know more about here next steps!

Doctor Inés Temiño from the Molecular Nanoscience and Organic Materials (NANOMOL) Group at ICMAB defended her PhD thesis on Friday, 15 November 2019 at the ICMAB. Her thesis "Solution-Processed Organic Field-Effect Transistors: from Fundamental Aspects to Applications" was supervised by Marta Mas-Torrent. Congratulations! Continue info to know what Inés Temiño will do in a near future!

Doctor Yu Chen from the Laboratory of Multifunctional Thin Films and Complex Structures (MULFOX) Group at ICMAB defended his PhD thesis on Thursday, 14 November 2019 at the ICMAB. His thesis "Artificial Synapses based on the Photoconductance of LaAlO₃/SrTiO₃ Quantum Wells" was supervised by Gervasi Herranz. Congratulations! Continue reading to know more about Yu Chen!

We have a new Doctor at the ICMAB, Docor Qianzhe Zhang, from the Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites Group (NN) at ICMAB, who defended his PhD thesis on Friday, 4 October 2019. His thesis, supervised by Dr. Martí Gich and Dr. Adrián Carretero was entitled "Microstructural Control of Epitaxial α-Quartz Films". Do you know what Qianzhe will miss the most? Continue reading!

Doctor Juan Antonio Seijas Bellido from the Theory and Simulation Group at ICMAB successfully defended his PhD thesis "Computational studies of thermal transport in functional oxides" last Thursday, 3 October 2019, at at the ICMAB. His supervisors were Dr. Riccardo Rurali (ICMAB) and Dr. Jorge Iñiguez (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST).

Congratulations Dr. Fangchang Tan for successfully defending your PhD Thesis on "Carborane bis-pyridylalcohols as Globular and Flexible Linkers for Coordination Polymers: From Bulk Crystals to 2D Ultrathin Nanosheets". If you want to know more about Flavia's PhD thesis, read more below!

Congratulations to Dr. Arpita Saha for successfully defending her PhD Thesis on "Tuning the properties of quantum nanocrystals and magnetic nanoparticles using spherical ligands: carboranes and metallacarboranes". If you want to know more about Arpita and her stay at the ICMAB, read more below!

Dr. Isabel Fuentes from the Inorganic Materials & Catalysis at ICMAB successfully defended her PhD thesis "Aplicaciones de los metalacarboranos en el campo de la biomedicina y de la energía" supervised by Francesc Teixidor, on Tuesday, 16 July 2019.