Alejandro López obtained his BSc (2011) from the Universidad de Salamanca. In September 2012 he joined the group of Prof. Emilio Pérez at IMDEA Nanoscience and he obtained his MSc from UNED in 2014. In 2015 he carried out also a predoctoral stay at the CNR-Istituto Nanoscienze in Lecce, Italy working under the supervision of Professor Dario Pisignano on the preparation of polymeric fibers. In January 2017 he obtained his Ph.D. Then he joined the group of Prof. Naoki Komatsu at Kyoto University as a JSPS postdoctoral working on supramolecular chemistry and exohedral functionalization of carbon nanostructures. In July 2019 he joined Dr. Gimenez-López´s group at CIQUS (Santiago de Compostela) to work in the controlled assembly in complex functional carbon nanostructures. In September 2019 he received a Juan de la Cierva fellowship. Currently, he is a Postdoctoral researcher at IMDEA with Prof. Emilio M. Pérez.

Natalia Martín Sabanés obtained her Bachelor degree in Physics in 2011 at the Autónoma University of Madrid. She worked in the Spanish National Center of Cardiovascular Research for her master thesis, in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and obtained her master degree in 2013 in Biomedical Physics. She moved to Mainz (Germany) to work as a PhD in the group of Katrin Domke and Mischa Bonn in Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research. Her PhD thesis consisted of developing a tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy setup able to operate under electrochemical conditions. After getting her PhD in Chemistry in 2017, she moved to Berlin as a postdoc in Fritz Haber Institute, where she worked on the development of a THz-gated Scanning tunneling microscope in the group of Melanie Müller and Martin Wolf.

Natalia has specialized in near-field techniques and setup development, in particular merging scanning probe microscopy and different optical techniques for the investigation of physico-chemical processes and ultrafast dynamics in the nano-scale.

In 2020, she got a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship and moved to IMDEAnano to develop her new project in the field of near-field Raman spectroscopy and optical tweezers. 

Marina Garrido Serrano obtained her PhD in 2017 at the University Complutense of Madrid (Spain), under the supervision of Prof. Nazario Martín and Prof. Mª Ángeles Herranz, working on the non-covalent functionalization of graphene with different electroactive systems. After getting her PhD in Organic Chemistry, she joined the group of Prof. Prato at the University of Trieste (Italy) as Postdoctoral researcher, where she worked on the exfoliation, functionalization and characterization of 2D and nanomaterials.

Currently, she is a Postdoctoral researcher at IMDEA Nanociencia in the group of Prof. Emilio M. Pérez, where she is working on the development of new strategies for the functionalization of different 2D materials.

Carmen obtained her BSc in Chemistry from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) in 2014. One year later, she obained her MSc in Organic Chemistry from the same university (2015). Afterwards, she joined IMDEA Energy Institute to develop her PhD, under the supervision pf Prof. Marta Liras and Prof. Víctor de la Peña (2016-2020). The research that she developed during this period was focused in the synthesis of conjugated porous polymers and their application as photocatalysts in Artificial Photosynthesis reactions, among others. In 2019 she performed a short stay at the Ludwig Maximilian Universität of Munich (LMU). She worked for 3 months in the development of Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs) in the group of Prof. Thomas Bein. In 2021 she got a postdoctoral position at the Georg-August-Universität of Göttingen, in the group of Prof. Manuel Alcarazo (2021-2022). She worked in the enantioselective synthesis of azabora-helicenes through gold-catalysed hydroarylation reactions.

Carmen was recently awarded a Juan de la Cierva grant (2021) and she joined IMDEA Nanociencia Institute as postdoctoral researcher. She forms part of the research group of Chemistry of Low Dimensional Materials, leaded by Prof. Emilio Pérez. Currently, her research interests are focused in the development of photoactive materials composed of organic dyes and single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) for energy applications.

Alicia Naranjo Chacón studied her bachelor degree in Chemistry at University of Castilla-La Mancha (Ciudad Real, Spain). She obtained a Master’s degree in Molecular Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in the same university in 2019 (Toledo, Spain). Place where she collaborated in the research group headed by Dra. Ester Vázquez Fernández-Pacheco in the study of different hidrogels and carbon nanomaterials and its application in several areas.

Currently, she is a PhD student in the group headed by Dr. Emilio M. Pérez in the laboratory for Chemistry of Low-Dimensional Materials at IMDEA Nanociencia.

Ion Isasti Iribar studied Chemistry at the University of the Basque Country of San Sebastian. In his last year of the degree he began to take his first steps as a researcher in the Polymers and Advanced Materials department for the completion of the final degree project directed by Pedro Maria Remiro Montoya. After completing the degree, he completed the Master of High Specialization of Polymers and Rubber at the Institute of Polymer Science and Technology (CSIC) in Madrid. During the master's degree he did his final degree project under the command of Juan López Valentín from the Elastomers Group.

Currently, he is a Ph.D. student in the Laboratory for Chemistry of Low-Dimensional Materials at IMDEA Nanociencia.

Zulay D. Pardo-Botero obtained a B.S in Chemistry in 2006 from Universidad del Valle (Colombia). Then, she moved to Madrid where she enrolled at Universidad Complutense de Madrid and received a M.S. in Organic Synthesis in 2009 and a Ph.D. in 2014. She joined the group of Prof. Antonio Herrera and Roberto Martínez-Álvarez where her work was focused on the development and optimization of ultrafast NMR pulse sequences, to monitor organic reactions in real-time. Additionally, in 2010 she was a visiting scholar at The Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel under the guidance of Prof. Lucio Frydman.

In 2016, she joined IMDEA Nanociencia as an Instrument Scientist responsible for the NMR Service and Chemical Facilities for Molecular Analysis and Characterization Laboratory. Currently, she is also in charge of the implementation of a Quality Management System based on ISO 9001:2015 at the Nanomaterials Characterization Service under the guidance of Prof. Emilio M. Pérez.

Silvia Miranda obtained her bachelor and master degree in Organic Chemistry at Complutense University of Madrid (Spain). During this period, she joined the group of Prof. Antonio Garcia Martinez where she has acquired experience in the field of organic synthesis. Particularly, she has synthesized chiral ligands to perform asymmetric catalysis. In 2019, She received her PhD in Organic Chemistry from University of Alcala, Spain. She worked under the direction of  Drs. José Cristóbal López and Ana María Gómez (CSIC), where her work thesis focused in a carbohydrate chemistry area; paying special attention to the development of new methodologies in organic synthesis. In summer on 2013, she carried through a short stay in University of Bristol for 3 months, under the supervision of Dr. Carmen Galán.

Currently, She is part of  Dr. Emilio Pérez's “Low Dimensional Materials Chemistry” group to contribute her experience in organic synthesis, developing and supporting different synthetic projects.

Sylwia Parzyszek obtained a certificate of chemical analyst technician from Technical School No. 4 in Puławy (Poland) in 2012. She obtained M.S. in Chemistry from Warsaw University (Poland) in 2017, developing metallic nanomaterials as SERS surfaces. During her studies, she completed internships at the Institute of Physical Chemistry Polish Academy of Science, and Oporto University (Portugal). She continues her doctoral studies in physical chemistry in a group of prof. Wiktor Lewandowski in Warsaw, where her work is focused on the reversible self-assembly of semiconductor nanocrystals with liquid-crystalline matrixes as macroscale polarized light emitters.

In 2023 Sylwia joined the group headed by Dr. Emilio M. Pérez in the laboratory for Chemistry of Low-Dimensional Materials at IMDEA Nanociencia.

Cristina Arenas obtained her Higher Technical Certificate in Chemical Laboratory of Analysis and Quality Control at Lope de Vega institute of Madrid (Spain) in 2017. She also studied Intermediate Degree of Chemical Laboratory at the same institution and she graduated in 2014. She performed the mandatory field work at Research Center of CEPSA Química in Alcalá de Henares (Spain), where she developed the optimization of the oil extraction in the petrochemical laboratory, and at the ALKEMI S.A. in the chemical and microbiological analysis and quality control department in Coslada (Spain), pharmaceutical and organic and inorganics products quality tests analysis.

Currently, she is working as Chemical Laboratory and Instrumentation Analysis Technician in IMDEA Nanociencia.

Gloria Tobajas Curiel graduated with a Pharmacy degree (MPharm) from Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 2015, which was followed by an MSc in Drug Discovery where she worked on the synthesis of small molecules structurally related to natural polyphenols at Instituto de Química Médica (IQM-CSIC). Prior to the beginning of her PhD, she was awarded a fellowship sponsored by Fundación Universidad-Empresa (FUE) to join Janssen Pharma as a medicinal chemist. Between 2018-2023, she carried out her PhD studies in the group of Chris Hunter at the University of Cambridge where she investigated non-covalent interactions in synthetic and biological systems.

Gloria’s current research interests lie in the understanding of the relationship between structure and function in chemistry, biology, and material sciences through the systematic study of molecular recognition. In late 2023, she joined the group of Emilio Pérez at IMDEA Nanociencia as a postdoctoral researcher to work on the characterisation of non-covalent chemistries under non-equilibrium conditions using single-molecule force spectroscopy techniques.