MEMBERS (Molecular Materials Group)

Head of the group
Prof. Nazario Martín León

Group manager
Ana Ferruelo Nicolás

Full Professors
Prof. Roberto Martínez Álvarez

Associate Professors
Prof. Beatriz M. Illescas Martínez
Prof. Mª Ángeles Herranz Astudillo
Prof. Ángel Martín Domenech
Prof. David García Fresnadillo
Prof. Andreas Gouloumis
Prof. Salvatore Filippone
Prof. Carmen M. Atienza Castellanos

Postdocs
Dr. Laura Rodríguez Pérez
Dr. José Santos Barahona
Dr. Agustín Molina Ontoria
Dr. Jesús M. Fernández-García
Dr. Justo Enrique Cabrera González
Dr. Inés García Benito
Dr. Estefanía Fernandez Bartolomé

PhD Students
Mikiko Vázquez Nakagawa
Javier Urieta Mora
Eider Rodriguez Sánchez
Manuel Buendia Mateos
Jesús Galán Oliver
Juan Lión Villar
Antonio Ribeiro González
Diego Jiménez Vicente
Jennifer Patino Alonso

Master Students
Sara Barbero García
Patricia Izquierdo García
Ignacio Muñoz Alonso
Andrea Pérez Maquiera
Álvaro Zubiaurre Osuna

Visiting Scholars
Mª Margarita Suárez Navarro (Full Professor, Cuba)
Rebeca Martinez Haya (Postdoctoral student, ES)
Caterina Momoli (Predoctoral student, IT)
Alberto Pilotto (Máster Student, IT)

Former Members
Luis Sánchez Martín (Associate Professor, ES)
Juan Luis Delgado de la Cruz (Ramón y Cajal researcher, ES)
Emilio M. Pérez Álvarez (Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellow, ES)
Marta Izquierdo Barroso (Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellow, ES)
Pierrre-Antoine Bouit (Postdoctoral student, FR)

David Canevet (Postdoctoral student, FR)
Fulvio Brunetti (Postdoctoral student, IT)
Vanesa Marcos Algaba (Postdoctoral student, ES)
Damien Joly (Postdoctoral student, FR)
Juan Luis López López (Postdoctoral student, ES)
André Alexandre Vieira (Postdoctoral student, BR)
Juan Marco Martínez (Postdoctoral student, ES)
Silvia Reboredo (Postdoctoral student, ES)
Saeid Khodabakhshi (Postdoctoral student, Iran)
Paul Jameson Evans (Postdoctoral student, USA)
Javier Ramos Soriano (Postdoctoral student, ES)
Marta Ruiz-Santa Quiteria Saavedra (Postdoctoral student, ES)
Margaria Altable Sánchez (Predoctoral student, ES)
María Sierra Meseguer (Predoctoral student, ES)
Gustavo Fernández Huertas (Predoctoral student, ES)
Raúl García Sanz (Predoctoral student, ES)
Andrea La Rosa (Predoctoral student, ES)
Carmen Villegas Jimenez (Predoctoral student, ES)
Helena Isla Mata (Predoctoral student, ES)
Enrique E. Maroto (Predoctoral student, ES)
Antonio Muñoz Fernández (Predoctoral student, ES)
Jaime Mateos Gil (Predoctoral student, ES)
Luis Moreira Navarro (Predoctoral student, ES-FR)
María Gallego Capdevila (Predoctoral student, ES)
Alberto Insuasty (Predoctoral student, COL)
Javier López Andarias (Predoctoral student, ES)
Sonia Vela Gallego (Predoctoral student, ES)
Marina Garrido Serrano (Predoctoral student, ES)
Sara Vidal Estremera (Predoctoral student, ES)
Rafael Sandoval Torrientes (Predoctoral student, ES)
Antonio José Sánchez Arroyo (Predoctoral student, ES)
Valentina Sacchetti (Predoctoral student, IT)
Rosa M. Girón Rubio (Predoctoral student, ES)
Andrés Ferrer Ruiz (Predoctoral student, ES)
Alfonso Pérez Sánchez (Predoctoral student, ES)

Alicia López Andarias (Predoctoral student, ES)
Carolina E. Guamán Collaguazo (Master student, ES)
María Gómez Fernández (Master student, ES)
Álvaro Serrano Fariñas (Master student, ES)
Adrián Saura Sanmartín (Master student, ES)
Gorka Calvo Martín (Master student, ES)
Álvaro Carrión Rus (Master student, ES)
Adrian Espiñeira Gutiérrez (Master student, ES)
Pedro García Fernández (Master student, ES)
Sergio Ramírez Barroso (Master student, ES)
Sergio Cuesta Galisteo (Master student, ES)
Felix Hernández Culebras (Master student, ES)
Javier Martín Martín (Master student, ES)
Adrián Silva Díaz (Master student, ES)
Stéfany Michelle Cruz Ordóñez (Master student, ES)
Raquel Sánchez Bento (Master student, ES)
Nara Alexiou Zacarias (Administrative staff)
Helena Martín Barroso (Administrative staff)
Virginia González Moro (Administrative staff)

Former Visiting Scholars
Braulio Insuasty Obando (Full Professor, COL)
Carla Isabel Maderira dos Santos (Postdoctoral researcher, PT)
Cornelia van der Pol (Predoctoral student, UK)
Bo Møller Petersen (Predoctoral student, DK)
Hui Li (Predoctoral student, CH)
Faqiang Leng (Predoctoral student, FR)
Alejandro Ortíz González (Predoctoral student, COL)
Angélica García (Predoctoral student, COL)
Carlos Alberto Echeverry (Predoctoral student, COL)
Luis Alberto Illicachi (Predoctoral student, COL)
Mauricio Caicedo (Predoctoral student, COL)
Matteo Andrea Lucherelli (Master student, IT)
Simona Ricci (Master student, IT)
Antoine Joanne (Master student, FR)
Ester Cotali (Master student, IT)
Mateo Lucherelli (Master student, IT)

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Nazario Martín is Full Professor of Organic Chemistry at the UCM and Deputy Director of the new IMDEA-Nanoscience Institute of the Community of Madrid. He has been visiting professor at the universities of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Los Angeles (UCLA) and at the universities of Angers and Strasbourg (France). He is Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universities of Havana (Cuba, 2012) and Castilla-La Mancha (Spain, 2016).
Prof. Martín's research covers different topics with special emphasis on the chemistry of carbon nanostructures such as fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, graphene and carbon quantum dots, molecular wires, and electroactive molecules in the context of electronic transfer processes, applications in photovoltaics, chirality and nanoscience. He has directed 45 Doctoral Theses and is co-editor of 6 books and 14 special issues in prestigious international journals. He has been General Editor of the journal Anales de Química (2000-2005), member of the editorial committee and international advisory of the journals: Journal of Materials Chemistry (2000-2006), Chemical Communications (2006-2011), ChemSusChem (2011-2015) and he has been Regional Editor for Europe of the journal Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures. He has been until recently (2019) a member of the editorial board of the journals: The Journal of Organic Chemistry and Accounts of Chemical Research (ACS). Currently he belongs to the international advisory board of ChemPlusChem, Chemistry-An Asian Journal and ChemNanoMat (Wiley-VCH) and member of the advisory board of the journals Chemical Society Reviews and Chemical Communications (RSC). He is editor of the Scientific Reports journal of the Nature Publishing group. In 2015-2019 he has been Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Materials Chemistry (A, B and C) of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Prof. Martín has been part of numerous scientific committees in national and international congresses. He has been President of the Organizing Committee of the first centenary of the RSEQ (Madrid, 2003) and President of the International Symposium on Novel Aromatics (ISNA-16, Madrid, 2015). He is also a member of the Executive Committee for the Fullerenes Division of the Electrochemical Society (USA) (1998-present) and he is currently the President of the International Board of the International Symposium on Novel Aromatics (ISNA).
Professor Martín is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) and a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Doctors of Spain. In 2015 he is a corresponding academic member of the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences of Spain. He has written numerous opinion pieces in national newspapers and in national and international journals (El País, Angewandte, Chemistry World). In addition, he has delivered over 430 lectures mainly as a plenary speaker and invited speaker at the most distinguished conferences. Nazario Martín has been President of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (2006-2012). He has received numerous awards of great national and international prestige. Among them, The Jaime I award given by the Queen of Spain (2012), DuPont award (2007), Miguel Catalán award (the most prestigious given by the regional govern of Madrid) (2015), Gold medal of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (2012), and several international awards including the Alexander von Humboldt award (2013), the Richard E. Smalley award (2013), the Catalán-Sabatier (French Chemical Society) (2014), the Elhuyar-Goldsmith (German Chemical Society) (2016), EuCheMS Lectureship, (2012)  and the recent Ciamiacian-González (Italian Chemical Society) (2019). He is Member of the Academia Europaea (since 2018) and Scientist Member of ChemPubChem Europe in 2018.
In 2015-2019 he has been elected President of the Confederation of Scientific Societies of Spain (COSCE), which brings together more than 80 scientific societies and more than 40,000 scientists.
Prof. Martín is one of the most cited Spanish chemists and since 2013-2019 he enjoyed an "Advanced Grant" from the European Research Council (ERC).
For more information, you can visit his website at: http://www.nazariomartingroup.com/

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Roberto Martínez-Álvarez (Madrid 1953) is Full Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University Complutense of Madrid(UCM)  and He was director of  Department of  Organic Chemistry  at the Chemistry Faculty of UCM from 2009 to 2017.
He was Alexander von Humboldt fellow (1989-1990, 2000, 2003)  at the Tübingen University in Germany.
He  was member of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAP) and related Temporary Working Groups  of the  Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW, The Haag, Netherlands) from 2012 to 2017.

e-mail: rma@quim.ucm.es

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Beatriz M. Illescas obtained her degree in Chemistry at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, in 1992. She joined the group of Profs. Carlos Seoane and Nazario Martín, where she obtained her Ph.D in Organic Chemistry in February 1998, working on the study of cycloaddition reactions to C60 and their application to the synthesis of electroactive fullerenes. During 1998 she worked as postdoctoral researcher on the synthesis of fullerene derivatives with potential pharmacological activity, in a project with Janssen-Cilag S.A. From 1999-2009 she worked as an Assistant Professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. From 2009, she holds an Associate Professor position at the Department of Organic Chemistry of UCM University. Her current interests focus on the chemical modification of carbon nanostructures and their applications in molecular electronics, supramolecular chemistry or biological properties..

e-mail: beti@quim.ucm.es

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Mª Ángeles Herranz is Associate Professor (tenured) of the Organic Chemistry Department at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) since 2009 (Researcher ID: K-1742-2014, ORCID: 0000-0001-9155-134X, SCOPUS: 6508087183). She obtained her Ph.D. in 2001 from UCM under the supervision of Profs. Nazario Martín and Carlos Seoane, working on the synthesis and properties of donor-acceptor systems based on [60]fullerene and tetrathiafulvalene (TTF). Starting in 2001, she spent three years as a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Luis Echegoyen, first at the University of Miami (Florida, USA) and then at Clemson University (South Carolina, USA), where she was engaged in a number of projects, including electrochemical and spectroelectrochemical characterization of new TTF-based dyads, and characterization of fullerene-derived materials employing electrochemical, ESR, and NMR techniques. In 2004 she joined the group of Prof. Nazario Martín at UCM holding a Ramón y Cajal research associate position (2004-2007), afterwards she became Assistant Professor (2007-2009) and from 2009 she is Associate Professor of Chemistry. Her current research interests focus on the chemistry, electronic and chiroptical properties of carbon nanostructures.


e-mail: maherran@ucm.es

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Á�ngel Martín Domenech was born in Madrid, Spain. He graduated in Chemistry at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM-1986). In the same year he obtained the Master in Organic Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. J. Plumet working on the chemistry of N-acyl-b-lactams. Afterwards, he worked seven months in Milano (Italia) in the Research and Development Department of the Multinational Suisse Company (SICPA, S.A.). He returned to the UCM and received his Ph. D. under the supervision of Prof. J. Plumet and Prof. O. Arjona. Following one year postdoctoral stay with Professor María J. Camarasa (Instituto de Química Médica del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas) working on the search for effective drugs for AIDS therapy, particularly focussed on the viral enzyme reverse transcriptase (RT) that has a critical role in the life cycle of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), he joined Professor N. Martín´s group at UCM. From 2010, he holds an Associate Professor position at the Department of Organic Chemistry of UCM University. His current research interest focuses on the reactivity of fullerenes with transition metal, and the application of the new derivatives in materials science.

e-mail: angmar@quim.ucm.es

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David García Fresnadillo (M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry, 1991, and Ph.D. in Chemistry, 1996, Complutense University of Madrid, UCM). During his Ph.D. he worked on the synthesis and structural, photophysical and photochemical characterization of luminescent Ru(II) complexes for the development of optical sensors. Between 1993 and 1995 he spent several months with Profs. A. M. Braun and E. Oliveros at the Lehrstuhl für Umweltmesstechnik (Chair of Environmental Metrology, Engler-Bunte Institüt, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany) studying the photosensitized production of molecular singlet oxygen by homoleptic and heteroleptic Ru(II) complexes in homogeneous and (micro)heterogeneous phase. After a short stay at the Laboratory of Water Analysis (Geological and Mining Institute of Spain, Madrid) he became Assistant Professor at the Organic Chemistry Department of UCM (1997-2002). Postdoctoral researcher in 1999 with Prof. A. Kirsch-DeMesmaeker at the Service de Chimie Organique-Physique (Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Free University of Brussels, Belgium) where he studied the photophysics and photochemistry of DNA oligonucleotides labelled with Ru(II) complexes as molecular photoprobes and phototools for DNA. In 2003 he became Associate Professor at UCM and started to develop singlet oxygen photosensitizing materials for environmental (water disinfection and decontamination with solar reactors) and biomedical (antimicrobial photodynamic therapy, APDT) applications. Since 2009 he is an Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry with tenure at UCM and, in 2010, he joined the research group of Prof. Nazario Martín. His current research interests focus on the design, synthesis, structural and photophysical characterization of carbon nanostructures aiming to applications in the fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology, photochemistry, photobiology and photomedicine. He is a current member of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry, its Group of Photochemistry, the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology.

e-mail: dgfresna@quim.ucm.es

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Dr. Andreas Gouloumis is actually chemistry Professor at UCM (2009-actual). 1. Formation Ph.D., Chemistry, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2002. B.S., Chemistry, Universitá di Bologna (Italia), 1993. 2. Professional and Research Experience Postdoctoral Fellow with Professors: Jonathan Sessler University of Texas at Austin, USA 2004, Tomás Torres Universidad Autónoma, Madrid 2003-2004, Fernando. Langa Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Toledo 2002-2003. Visiting Research Assistant with Professors: Luis Echegoyen University of Miami, USA 2000 Michael Hanack University of Tübingen, Germany 1999 and 2000-2001. Predoctoral Fellow (grant FPU): Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 1998-2001. 3. Research Interests Dr. A. Gouloumis research interests are focussed in two main areas: 1). New Molecular Materials for Organic Solar Cells. 2). Organic Molecular Wires for Optoelectronics.

e-mail: andreas.gouloumis@quim.ucm.es

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Salvatore Filipponewas born in Reggio Calabria and grew up in his beloved Locri (Kingdom of the Two Sicilies). He did his universitary studies abroad, at the University of Pavia where he also obtained his PhD. The thesis was conducted under the supervision of Prof. Faita on metal catalyzed asymmetric synthesis. In April 2000, he moved to Ecole Normale Superieure of Paris for a postdoctoral fellowship on the biological evaluation of fullerene derivatives, working with Prof. Rassat and Prof. Bensasson. This project involved the synthesis of water soluble methanofullerenes covalently linked to beta and gamma cyclodextrins and the study of their photophysical properties. Since April 2002 he joined the Nazario Martín group, from 2008 to 2013 as a researcher "Ramon y Cajal", then as an assistant professor and since 2018 he is associate professor in the department of Organic Chemistry. He has been mainly involved in the new reactivity in fullerene chemistry, molecular wires and organic photovoltaics and chiral nanographenes

e-mail: salvatore.filippone@quim.ucm.es

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Carmen Mª Atienza Castellanos was born in Alcázar de San Juan (Spain) in 1976. She obtained his BSc (1999) and DEA (2001) from the University of Autónoma of Madrid, working in the formation of benzo[b]fluorenes and the benzo[a]fluorene core of the fluostatins by cyclization of diaryldiynones under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Antonio M. Echavarren. Then she moved on to the University Complutense of Madrid (UCM) where she obtained her Ph.D. in 2005 with the thesis entitled “Synthesis photo- and electroactive systems based on [60]fullerene and tetrathiafulvalene (TTF)” under the supervision of Profs Nazario Martín and Carlos Seoane, working. During this period, she spent three months at the ETH Zurich joining the group of Prof. Dr. François Diederich and working on the synthesis of new TTF acetylenic-CEEs system for NLO. From 2005 to 2006 she worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Dirk M. Guldi at Lehrstuhl für Physikalische Chemie I in Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg on photophysics study of electron transfer in electroactive organic systems. Until 2007 she joined the group of Prof. E. Díez Barra working on synthesis of dendrimeric structure for nanophotonic application worked at University of Castilla La Mancha. In October 2007 she enjoyed as a visiting professor contract at University Complutense of Madrid. During 2009-2011, she joined as Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral contract in Prof. Nazario Martín´s group at UCM. She is working in supramolecular chemistry to obtain highly ordered n-/p-functional materials. From 2012-until now, she is Ramón and Cajal researcher at UCM.

e-mail: cmatienz@quim.ucm.es

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Laura Rodríguez Pérez was born in Oviedo (Spain) in 1981. In 2004 she received an Erasmus grant and spent a school year in the Ecole Européene de Chimie Polymères et Matériaux-Université Louis Pasteur and she was graduated in 2005 from the Universidad de Oviedo. Afterwards she spent 9 months at the Institute Français du Petrole, IFP (Lyon, France) to work in the preparation and characterization of monoliths for the electrochemical promotion of catalysis. Then, she moved on to theEcole Nationale Supérieure des Ingénieurs en Arts Chimiques Et Technologiques (ENSIACET-Toulouse, France) to joint the groups of Prof. Philippe Serp in the Laboratoire de chimie de coordination (LCC) and of Prof. Montserrat Gomez in the Laboratoire de heterochimie fundamental et appliqué (HFA). She obtained her PhD in 2009 with the thesis entitled “New catalytic systems based on carbon nanotubes supported ionic liquid phase”. After this period she spent one month at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (Mexico D.F.) in the group of Prof. Erika Martin Arrieta to work on tandem reactions catalyzed by metallic nanoparticles stabilized in ionic liquids. She joined the group of the Prof. Nazario Martin at Universidad Complutense de Madrid in mars 2010 as a postdoctoral researcher.

e-mail : laura.rodriguez.perez@quim.ucm.es

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José M. Santos Barahona graduated in Chemistry in 2005 at Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). He obtained his PhD in 2010 under supervision of Prof. Nazario Martín and Dr. Beatriz Illescas, Organic Molecular Materials Group at UCM, his thesis topic was fullerene based electroactive systems from both supramolecular and covalent approach; during his PhD he spent three months in a short research stay with Prof. James R. Durrant at Imperial College London familiarizing with transient absorption experiments. From 2011 until 2014 he was Postdoctoral Research Assistant with Prof. Martin R. Bryce in Durham University (UK), in this position he researched new deep-blue emitting copolymers for OLED and thermally activated delayed fluorescence materials (TADF). Since 2014 he moved to Madrid to join IMDEA Nanoscience to develop new materials with low band gap properties with Prof. Nazario Martín as postdoc researcher under the AMAROUT II program.

e-mail: jose.santos@ imdea.org

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Agustín Molina Ontoria obtained his PhD from the Complutense University of Madrid under the supervision of Prof. Nazario
Martín, where he was focused on photoinduced electron transfer in covalently linked donor–acceptor systems through molecular wires of organic nature. From 2011 to 2014, he joined the lab of Prof. Luis Echegoyen as a post doctoral researcher, where he expanded his research interests to carbon nanostructures, such as carbon nano-onions and organic photovoltaic solar cells. In 2014, he moved to IMDEA Nanoscience, where he is currently undertaking a second postdoc, with a focus on the synthesis of easily attainable new organic hole-transporting materials for perovskite solar cells to establish the relationship between structure and photovoltaic performance.

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Jesús M. Fernández-García was born in Oviedo He did his universitary studies at the University of Oviedo where he also obtained his PhD. His thesis was conducted under the supervision of Prof. Enrique Aguilar and Prof. Manuel A. Fernández-Rodríguez (University of Burgos). It consisted on gold-catalyzed cycloisomerization and cycloaddition reactions on push-pull systems. In 2016, he joined as postdoctoral researcher at the Nazario Martin group in the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. He is currently researching about new methodologies for the synthesis of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH).

e-mail: fernandezgjesus@gmail.com

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Inés García Benito (Madrid, 1988) is postdoctoral researcher at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) since February 2020 (Researcher ID: N-6310-2019 and Orcid Code: 0000-0002-1896-2836). She graduated in chemical engineering in 2011 at Rey Juan Carlos University. Inés obtained her PhD. in organic chemistry in 2017 at Prof. Nazario Martín’s group working on synthesis of new organic electron/hole-transporting materials for photovoltaic applications. Starting in 2017, she spent more than two years as a postdoctoral researcher at the leading research institute in renewable energies École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Switzerland, with Prof. M. K. Nazeeruddin. There, she worked on materials science and solar cell preparation, developing new organic-inorganic materials for efficient and stable perovskite-based devices. In 2020, she moved to Madrid to join Prof. Nazario Martin’s group under “Atracción de Talento Invertigador” contract. Her research, developed at UCM and IMDEA Nanoscience, is currently focused on the study of new organic materials to improve the performances of perovskite solar cells.

ingarc10@ucm.es

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Estefanía Fernández Bartolomé studied her bachelor degree in Chemistry at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). Afterwards, she obtained her Master in Chemical Science and Technology from the same University (2015). She performed her Master thesis in the field of coordination chemistry based on dimetallic rhodium species in the Reyes Jimenez Aparicio´s research group. She completed her PhD in 2020 under the supervision of Dr José Sánchez Costa. Her work involved the design, synthesis and characterization of different metal-based coordination compounds and carbon-based organic dynamic compounds capable to introduce gasses and small volatile molecules providing physico-chemical response that can be used for molecules storage and sensors applications. In 2021, she joined the research group of Prof. Nazario Martín at Universidad Complutense of Madrid as a postdoctoral researcher, working on the study of dynamic supramolecular control in single crystal to single crystal reactions for new carbon-based 2D and 3D molecular materials.

estefania.fernandez@ucm.es

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Justo Cabrera-González was born in Granada (Spain). He obtained his degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Granada in 2009. After a brief time working as engineer for a company, he started his research career in chemistry in the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), where he completed his PhD in 2016 under the supervision of Dr. Rosario Núñez. His research covered organic and inorganic synthetic procedures in the preparation of new boron cluster derivatives for optoelectronic and biomedical applications. In 2016, Justo joined the research group of Prof. Sylvia M. Draper at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) as a postdoctoral research fellow, working on the preparation of photoactive iridium and ruthenium metal complexes for biomedical applications. Justo returned to Spain in 2019 obtaining a grant from the Talent Attraction Program founded by Comunidad de Madrid, and he currently works as a Postdoctoral Researcher on Carbon Nanostructures for biomedical applications with Prof. Beatriz Illescas and Prof. Nazario Martin.

Mikiko Vázquez Nakagawa was born in Havana, Cuba. She obtained her degree in Chemistry and Materials Chemistry in 2014 at the Alma Mater Studiorum Universitá di Bologna, Italy. In 2015, she joined the group of Prof. Nazario Martín at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid to develop her Master Project. In September 2015, she obtained her Master's Degree in Organic Chemistry and started her Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Mª Ángeles Herranz and Prof. Nazario Martín. Her research is focused on the chirality of graphene-based nanomaterials.

e-mail: mikity89@gmail.com

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Javier Urieta Mora was born in 1990 in Madrid, Spain. He obtained his degree in Chemistry in 2014 at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a Master degree in Organic Chemistry in 2015 at the same University. In September 2015, he joined the group and started his Ph.D. under the supervision of Dr. Agustín Molina Ontoria and Prof. Nazario Martín. His research interests are focused on materials for energy. He is currently researching on the synthesis of new hole-transporting materials for Perovskites solar cells.

e-mail: j.urieta29@gmail.com

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Eider Rodriguez Sanchez was born in Elgoibar (Guipuzcoa, Spain), in 1995. She obtained her degree in Chemistry in 2017 at Basque Country University (UPV/EHU). In 2018 she joined Nazario Martin´s group and she developed her Master Project entitle ``Bio-inspired electroactive supramolecular architectures´´. The same year, she obtained her Master Degree in Organic Chemistry and she started her PhD studies under supervision of Dr. Jose M. Santos Barahona and Prof. Nazario Martín at IMDEA Nanoscience.  She is researching about new organic molecules for the construction of 2D and 3D systems.

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Manuel Buendia Mateos was born in Madrid (Spain) in 1991. He obtained both degree in Chemistry and Master degree in Organic Chemistry at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, in 2016 and 2017 respectively. After a brief time working for an oil and gas company, he joined the group in February 2019 to start his Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Salvatore Filippone and Prof. Nazario Martín. His research is focused in the synthesis of enantioenriched nanographenes for organic electronics applications.

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Jesus Galan Oliver

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Juan Lión Villar was born in Valladolid, Spain, in 1996. He recieved his Bachelor´s degree in Chemistry from University of Valladolid and studied his Master´s degree in Synthetic and Industrial Chemistry at the same institution. During his studies, he mainly worked on the synthesis of heterocycles using organosilanes. In March 2020, he joined Nazario Martin´s group at UCM to start his PhD. He is currently working on the bottom-up synthesis of nanographenes.

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Antonio Ribeiro González nacido en Madrid (España) en 1995. Obtuvo el Grado en Química en 2018 y el Máster interuniversitario en Química Orgánica en 2018 por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Realizó su Trabajo Fin de Grado "Síntesis de nuevos colorantes para aplicaciones fotoquímicas avanzadas" y Trabajo Fin de Máster "Síntesis de nanopuntos de carbono para aplicaciones fotoquímicas avanzadas" en el grupo de Materiales orgánicos del Departamento de Química Orgánica de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid bajo la supervisión del Profesor David García Fresnadillo. Se unió en marzo de 2020 para realizar su Tesis Doctoral bajo la supervisión del Profesor David García Fresnadillo, que trata de la síntesis de nanopuntos de carbono. 

anribe01@ucm.es

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Sara Barbero García was born in 1996, in Martorell (Barcelona, Spain). She obtained her degree in Chemistry at the University of Barcelona (UB) in 2019. That same year she continued her studies at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), pursuing a master's degree in Organic Chemistry. In 2020 she joined the Nazario Martín’s group, where she is developing her Master Project, under the supervision of Dr. Mª Ángeles Herranz, Dr. Laura Rodríguez Pérez and Dr. Justo Cabrera González. The aim of the project is the preparation of graphene quantum dots (GQDs) functionalized with glycofullerenes.

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Patricia Izquierdo García was born in 1997 in Madrid, Spain. She obtained her degree in Chemistry in 2019 at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. At this moment she is studying the Organic Chemistry Master at the same University. She joined the group in 2018 to make the final degree project and now she is doing the master project, both under the supervision of Prof. Nazario Martín and Dr. Jesús M. Fernández-García. Her research interests are focused on bottom-up synthesis of nanographenes

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Andrea Pérez Maquiera was born in Cruces (Vizcaya, Spain), in 1996.  She obtained her degree in Chemistry in 2019 at Basque Country University (UPV/EHU). In 2020 she joined Nazario Martin´s group, where she is currently developing her Master Project entitled `Synthesis of fullerene derivatives with biomedical applications´.

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Ignacio Muñoz Alonso was born in 1996 in Madrid (Spain). He obtained his degree in Chemistry in 2019 at Universidad Complutense de Madrid and he is currently studying Master Degree in Organic Chemistry at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He develop his Master´s Project entitle “Carbon nanostructures: Synthesis, chirality and properties” under supervision of Dr. Salvatore Filippone

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Rebeca Martínez Haya was born in Requena, Valencia. She studied Chemical Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. In 2014, she completed the Experimental and Industrial Organic Chemistry Master and started her PhD in the Institute of Chemical Technology (Polytechnic University of Valencia-Spanish National Research Council) conducted over the supervision of Prof. Miranda and Prof. Marín. Her tesis was focused in the mecanistic study of different photoredox processes using time resolved techniques. She has made two research stays, during her Final Degree Project of the Chemical Engineering degree, at the laboratory of Prof. Krakovsky in the Macromolecular Physics Department of Karlova University (Czech Republic), with an Erasmus grant; and as pre-doctoral student at the laboratory of Prof. König in the Chemistry and Pharmacy Faculty of Regensburg University (Germany), with a DAAD grant. In 2017 she was one of the two PhD students selected for the “Ford- Apadrina la Ciencia” contracts. Currently, she holds a postdoctoral grant from the “Generalitat Valenciana” to develop a collaborative project between the Polytechnic University of Valencia and the Complutense University of Madrid  based on the deveolpement and characterization of nanomaterials with photochemical activity.

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Caterina Momoli was born in 1992 in Rome, Italy. She obtained her degree in Chemestry in 2016 at the Università degli Studi la Sapienza where she also obtained her Master degree in Organic Chemestry in 2019. During her studies she worked on enyne methathesis of propargyl acrylates for the synthesis of butenolides for industrial and biomedical applications, under the supervision of Dr. Andrea D’Annibale. Caterina is currently collaborating with the group of Prof. Nazario Martin at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, working on the synthesis of fullerenes derivatives and their applications to perovskite solar cells, under the supervision of Prof. Salvatore Filippone.

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Diego Jiménez Vicent was born in 1992 in Madrid, Spain. He obtained his degree in Chemistry in 2016 de Madrid and Master degree in Organic Chemistry in 2017 at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). He worked for 3 years synthesizing Fe-Fe-hydrogenase mimics for H2 production in the Bioorganometallic Chemistry Group of the UCM. In September 2021, he joined the Organic Molecular Materials group and started his Ph.D. under the supervision of Dr. José Santos and Prof. Nazario Martín. His research interests are focused on the development of conductive organic polymers by on-surface synthesis.

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Jennifer Patino Alonso was born in Madrid (Spain) in 1995. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and Master’s degree in Organic Chemistry at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 2018 and 2019, respectively. In 2019, she did an internship in Janssen-Cilag at the R&D department. In November 2020, she joined Nazario Martín’s group at Universidad Complutense de Madrid to start her PhD. She is currently working on Carbon Nanostructures for biomedical applications.

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Prof. Dr. Mª. Margarita Suárez Navarro is a Full Professor of Organic Chemistry and Emeritus Professor at the Havana University, Cuba. (ORCID Code: 0000 0002 3138 4364). She has developed her own research on the synthesis and transformation of heterocycles with potential bioactive properties, reporting on new protocols using non-conventional synthetic procedures such as microwave, ultrasound and solid phase synthesis as a contribution to the Combinatorial Chemistry and Green Chemistry, performing structural and conformational study of the compounds synthesized by NMR and X-ray techniques and the application of theoretical calculations. Her interests also include the chemistry of fullerenes with special emphasis on the preparation of fullerene derivatives by means of cycloaddition reactions, and investigations on the chemical reactivity of carbon nanostructures and hybrids molecules. Since 1990 she has established scientific contacts with Prof. Dr. Nazario Martín, creating a fruitful collaboration that has resulted in more than scientific 70 papers in international journals.

e-mail: msuarez@fq.uh.cu, msuarezes@yahoo.es

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Ana Ferruelo Nicolás

e-mail: anaferru@quim.ucm.es

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