Sebastián Mesa Apestegui

Sebastián Mesa obtained his BCs degree in Mechanical Engineering and then in Industrial Engineering, both from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain), spending a year as an Erasmus student at Tampere (Finland). He also made a research stay at Delft University of Technology (The  Netherlands), studying crack growth behavior under fatigue loads on 3D-printed titanium alloys. After,  he pursued a Master’s Degree in Advanced Materials, Nanotechnology and Photonics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). Upon graduation, he stayed at Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination (LCC) of the CNRS (France) to work on the chemical synthesis of heterocyclic compounds to develop 2D materials. He joined IMDEA Nanociencia in August 2023 to do his PhD thesis on photocatalytic properties of 2D materials in combination with photoactive proteins, co-directed by Sara Hernández and Víctor Vega.