BCMaterials participated in late June at the GIANCE Horizon Europe project’s workshop within the Graphene Conference 2024 Industrial Forum, held in Madrid. Our center is a member of the consortium of this important project, aiming to create the next generation of affordable, eco-friendly, lightweight, and recyclable materials based on graphene and related substances (GRM)

We welcome Dr. Davide Spirito, who recently joined BCMaterials as a Ramón y Cajal fellow. Dr. Spirito got his PhD in Condensed Matter Physics from Roma Tre university in 2012. Since then, his multidisciplinary background comprises topics in the field of semiconductors, spectroscopy, nanomaterials, nanofabrication, energy harvesting and the development of optoelectronic devices.

Two new pre-doctoral researchers join BCMaterials: Vanessa Galván de Cos and Álvaro Cortés Flores.

We want to welcome Dimitra Das, who recently joined BCMaterials as a post-doctoral researcher. Dr. Das earned her PhD in Materials Science and Nanotechnology from Jadavpur University, India, in 2024. Her doctoral research concentrated on the development of carbon and nitrogen-based polymeric nanomaterials, which she applied to catalyze the degradation of organic pollutants in wastewater.

BCMaterials significantly reinforces its advanced functional materials and surfaces research line with the incorporation of a new Ikerbasque Research Associate, Dr. Reyes Calvo. At the same time as Calvo, postdoctoral researcher Lisa Almonte and predoctoral researchers Eudomar Henríquez and Juan David Cortés have joined BCMaterials.

Our center is happy to receive Dr. Maibelin Rosales as a post-doctoral researcher with a Marie Curie scholarship. After achieving her PhD in Materials Science from the University of Chile, Rosales has developed an important research career at the Advanced Mining Technology Center (AMTC) of the University of Chile. There she specialized in the design of nanomaterials activated with sunlight for the water remediation and also for the generation of green hydrogen from the decomposition of water molecules.

We would like to warmly welcome Dr. Joel Villatoro as a new associate researcher of BCMaterials. Villatoro, an Ikerbasque Research Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in Bilbao, joins our center to work in the framework of the Micro and Nano-devices research line.

The Edmond and Lilly Safra National Institute of Neurosciences in Natal (Brazil) received the scientific director of BCMaterials, Senentxu Lanceros-Méndez, in early May. During his visit, Lanceros-Méndez had the opportunity to establish ties for future collaborations with the center's researchers. Likewise, he offered the invited talk titled “Smart materials for biomedicine: sensors, actuators and active microenvironments for tissue regeneration.”

BCMaterials has opened its 2024 PhD program by offering 4 predoctoral contracts to students who want to complete their thesis at our center. The profile of the candidates is students of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Physics, Biology, Biotechnology, Materials Science...

BCMaterials welcomes Eloie Gallego, who joins our center as new Research Technician Assistant. She will work giving service to a growing laboratory activity in our facilities. Eloie’s academical and professional background is related to clinical and biomedical laboratories and she is also a technician in Pharmacy and Parapharmacy . Welcome to the Team, Eloie!