PostDoc
Fátima Aparicio
Fátima Aparicio obtained her Degree in Chemistry by Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 2008. During her final year in Chemistry she participated in the synthesis and development of new serotoninergic substances in Prof. María Luz López's research group. She obtained her PhD degree in 2014 working with Prof. Luis Sánchez on Chirality in Supramolecular Polymers. She carried out a predoctoral stay of 6 months in Prof. Carsten Schmuck's research group at the Universität Duisburg-Essen (Germany) where she studied the self-assembly of zwitterionic units. After that, she spent 2 Postdoctoral years as a Researcher of Prof. Marc Sallé's research group at the Université d'Angers (France) working on supramolecular gels based on non-linear optically-active compounds and on the high order organization of foldamers. In November 2016, she joined Dr. David González's research group (MSMn) at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid where she is focused on the self-assembly of amphiphilic monomers into functional tubular nanostructures with defined diameters and tuneable inner pores. She was consecutively awarded with a MSCA-Cofund “Intertalentum” (2017-2019), a MSCA-Individual Fellowship (2019-2021) and a competitive project funded for young researchers from the Spanish MICINN (JIN: 2021-2024). Recently, she has been awarded a Ramon y Cajal Fellowship (2023-2028).
ORCID 0000-0002-4237-3011
Researcher ID: E-2211-2017
Alberto de Juan
Alberto de Juan obtained his BSc in Chemistry in June 2011 from the Complutense University of Madrid. In September 2012, he joined Molecular Materials group of Prof. Nazario Martín León to obtain his Master Degree from Complutense University of Madrid. He continued his research career under the supervision of Dr. Emilio M. Pérez Álvarez in IMDEA Nanoscience. His research was focused on the development of new derivatives of Carbon Nanotubes Mechanically Interlocked (MINTs) for their application in catalysis and material science. In March 2017, he obtained his PhD Degree, obtaining the highest grade “Sobresaliente Cum Laude”.
In September 2017, Alberto joined the group of Professor Stephen M. Goldup at the University of Southampton as a postdoctoral researcher. His main research was based on the development of new synthetic routes for obtaining Mechanically Planar Chiral Rotaxanes in an stereoselective manner.
In October 2019, he joined the Nanostructured Molecular Systems and Materials group at the Autonoma University of Madrid, under the supervision of Professor David González Rodríguez. He is involved in different projects dedicated to supramolecular chemistry based on hydrogen bond.
ORCID: 0000-0002-2275-1775
Jorge S. Valera
Jorge S. Valera obtained his BSc in Chemistry in 2013 and MSc in Organic Chemistry in 2014 at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He pursued afterwards a PhD at the same university under the supervision of Prof. Luis Sánchez and Prof. Rafael Gómez, obtaining his PhD degree in November 2018. During this period, he was mainly focused on the thermodynamics and kinetics aspects of the supramolecular polymerization of π-conjugated systems and in transfer and amplification of asymmetry in self-assembling systems. Additionally, he also performed a 3-month predoctoral internship in the group of Prof. Shiki Yagai at Chiba University (Japan) devoted to the study of the self-assembling properties of photoactive moieties.
Following a postdoctoral time in Luis Sánchez’s group and a time in industry, he performed a 3-year postdoctoral research in Prof. Thomas Hermans’ group, firstly in the Institut de Sciences et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (ISIS) at the Université de Strasbourg (France) and finally at IMDEA Nanociencia, exploring the applications of light and catalysis in fuel-driven self-assembly. In April 2024 he joined Prof. David González’s research group at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid thanks to a MSCA Individual Fellowship, where he will investigate different aspects of self-healing materials as well as complex phenomena in supramolecular polymerizations.
ORCID: 0000-0001-8229-3107
Marina González Sánchez
Marina González Sánchez obtained her Chemistry degree in 2017 at the Universidad de Extremadura (UEx) in Badajoz. Her final project, “Synthesis and Reactivity of a Tioisomünchnona Derived from D-Glucosamine,” was carried out under the supervision of Prof. José Luis Jiménez Requejo and Prof. Martín Ávalos González.
In 2018, Marina completed her master’s degree in Organic Chemistry at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). Her research focused on the design and synthesis of multitarget drugs for the treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease, under the supervision of Dr. Juan Antonio Páez Prosper at the Institute of Medicinal Chemistry (IQM-CSIC).
In April 2019, she joined the research group of Prof. David González Rodríguez (MSMn) to work on the non-covalent synthesis of self-assembled nanotubes. In 2023, she carried out a predoctoral stay in the group of Prof. Bert Meijer at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e).
In February 2025, she successfully defended her doctoral thesis on the study of self-assembled architectures through nucleobase pairing.
ORCID: 0000-0002-2292-0794