We want to congratulate Naveen Harindu, pre-doctoral researcher of BCMaterials, for becoming new doctor on 3rd March. Naveen made an excellent defense of his thesis entitled "Reliability Enhancement of Perovskite Solar Cells: Role of Low-Dimensional Materials for Interfacial Modifications". We are happy for Naveen after all these years of hard work. He has a bright future ahead. Congratulations, Naveen!!

We want to congratulate Ainara Valverde de Mingo, pre-doctoral researcher of BCMaterials, for becoming new doctor on 25th January. Ainara made an excellent defense of her thesis entitled "Metal-organic frameworks and their composites for water remediation". We are glad to see Ainara overcoming this turning point of every researcher career and we are sure that we will see her next steps forward soon. Congratulations, Ainara!!

BCMaterials has incorporated a new pre-doctoral researcher, Nerea Lete. Nerea obtained her degree in Electronic Engineering from the UPV / EHU and the Master's Degree in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology from the University of Barcelona. She is specialized in manufacturing microfluidic platforms with built-in magnetic sensors. At BCMaterials she will work together with Alfredo García, UPV / EHU Research Associate, on magnetotactic bacteria as nanobots for specific therapies against cancer.

Welcome Nerea!

We would like to welcome a new researcher at BCMaterials, Ignacio Mínguez Bacho, who joins our center as a Ramón y Cajal Fellow – Post-Doctoral Researcher. Graduated in Physics from the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid, he completed a Master's Degree in Nanostructured Materials at this institution.

BCMaterials has signed the adhesion agreement to the Basque Health Cluster, an association for the representation, promotion, coordination and defense of the interests of Basque companies and research centers linked to the biosciences and health sector. 

María Calles joined our center this month as pre-doctoral researcher. Calles, who earned her Chemistry degree at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain) and a Master Degree in Fine and Molecular Chemistry at Universidad de Murcia (Spain), will work with Viktor Petrenko and Roberto Fernández de Luis in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) development. More specifically, she will research in the framework of the NUETRONMOF project for creating advanced polymers composites based on Metal-Organic Frameworks for batteries and environmental applications.

BCMaterials is happy to welcome a new post-doctoral researcher: Dr. Subhajit Dutta. He obtained his B.Sc. (Chemistry) from University of Calcutta (India) in 2014 and received M.Sc. degree from the same academical institution, India in 2016. Thereafter, he joined the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune (India) as a PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Sujit K. Ghosh and received his Ph.D. in 2022.

BCMaterials wants to welcome Marta García, who has joined our center as pre-doctoral researcher. She will work on the development of biodegradable batteries, along with Erlantz Lizundia, UPV/EHU Research Associate at BCMaterials. In particular, García will investigate different possibilities of natural polymers and derivatives of cellulose applied to these batteries.

Welcome, Marta! We hope you totally enjoy working with us at BCMaterials!

In late October, Senentxu Lanceros-Méndez, scientific director of BCMaterials, paid an institutional visit to the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokio Tech) on behalf of our center. The purpose of the visit was to extend the existing collaboration between Tokio Tech and BCMaterials to new areas.

We are happy to announce the incorporation of Nerea Landaluce as new pre-doctoral researcher at BCMaterials. Nerea will work on the Micro and Nanostructured materials research line along with Roberto Fernández de Luis. More specifically, she will research on the synthesis of biomimetic catalysts in the framework of the EVOLMOF project. Welcome to the team, Nerea!