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!

We are happy to receive Jorge Saiz Galindo as new Ramón y Cajal Fellow, post-doctoral researcher in BCMaterials.

Dr. Saiz obtained his degree in Biology and his PhD at the University of Alcalá, in Madrid. During this time and, subsequently, at CSIC and the University San Pablo CEU, he specialized in using innovative chromatographic and mass spectrometry techniques for the study of several fields, such as Forensics, food contaminants or metabolomics in the study of biological problems.

We want to congratulate Bosco Rodríguez Crespo, pre-doctoral researcher of BCMaterials, for becoming new doctor on February, 23. He made a brilliant defense of her thesis entitled "Development of Heusler – Alloy – Based Magnetocaloric Inks For 2D – 3D Printing".

It is our pleasure to see Bosco granting this great achievement and we want to underline the hard work he has been doing through these PhD years. Congratulations, Bosco!!

The BCMaterials Active and Smart Materials research line incorporates a new post-doctoral researcher. Igor Irastorza Epelde joins our center to work on the potential of the piezoelectric and magnetoelectric polymers polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) and polyhydroxybutyrate-valerate (PHVB) for spinal cord regeneration therapies.

We want to welcome Ekaterina Chernova, who recently joined BCMaterials as a post-doctoral researcher. Dr. Chernova obtained her Degree in Chemistry Kurgan State University in Russia. After getting her master’s degree in Chemistry and Materials Science and PhD at Lomonosov Moscow State University, she continued to work at that academical institution as a researcher in the field of 2D materials including graphene oxide-based structures.

BCMaterials received an institutional visit from the rector of the UPV/EHU, Eva Ferreira, and the vice-rectors of Research and Scientific-Social Development and Transfer, Inmaculada Arostegui and Guillermo Quindós.

The visit is part of the excellent collaborative relationship between both institutions and opens the doors to new possibilities of cooperation in future projects and activities.

On December 19, the workshop 'Materials Science for Environment and Beyond' was held at the University of Minho (Portugal), organized by the consortium of entities participating in the European INDESMOF project. BCMaterials coordinates this project funded by the European Union through the Horizon 2020 program. The aim of this research is the development of new filters for the removal of heavy metals from water.