Doctor Inés Temiño from the Molecular Nanoscience and Organic Materials (NANOMOL) Group at ICMAB defended her PhD thesis on Friday, 15 November 2019 at the ICMAB. Her thesis "Solution-Processed Organic Field-Effect Transistors: from Fundamental Aspects to Applications" was supervised by Marta Mas-Torrent. Congratulations! Continue info to know what Inés Temiño will do in a near future!

Doctor Juan Antonio Seijas Bellido from the Theory and Simulation Group at ICMAB successfully defended his PhD thesis "Computational studies of thermal transport in functional oxides" last Thursday, 3 October 2019, at at the ICMAB. His supervisors were Dr. Riccardo Rurali (ICMAB) and Dr. Jorge Iñiguez (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST).

Dr. Isabel Fuentes from the Inorganic Materials & Catalysis at ICMAB successfully defended her PhD thesis "Aplicaciones de los metalacarboranos en el campo de la biomedicina y de la energía" supervised by Francesc Teixidor, on Tuesday, 16 July 2019.

Doctor Qiaoming Zhang from the Nanomol Group at ICMAB, defended successfully his PhD thesis on Thursday, 13 June 2019. "I am the first Chinese Doctor of the NANOMOL group", he said, happily after his PhD Defense. Marta Mas-Torrent and Francesca Leonardi, his supervisors, were as proud as one can be! We have interviewed Qiaoming, to know about what he thinks of his PhD at ICMAB. Continue reading!

Dr.Sílvia Illa, former PhD researcher under the supervision of Dr. Jordi Faraudo (Theory and Simulation group at ICMAB) and Dr. Swapans K. Pati (Theoretical Science Unit, JNCASR, India), defended her PhD thesis entitled "Molecular Modelling of Quatsome nanovesicles" publicly on 28 February 2019 at the ICMAB-CSIC Auditorium. We have interviewed her to know a little bit more about her PhD and her life at the ICMAB!

Dr. Adriana Kyvik, former PhD researcher under the supervision of Dr. Imma Ratera (NANOMOL group at ICMAB), defended her PhD thesis entitled "Self-Assembled Monolayers for Biological Applications: Design, Processing, Characterization and Biological Studies" publicly on 25 January 2019 at the ICMAB-CSIC Auditorium. We have interviewed her to know a little bit more about her PhD and her life at the ICMAB!

Dr. Mahdi Chaari defended his PhD Thesis on December 7, 2018, at the Université de Sfax (Tunisia), obtaining the highest mark Mention Très Honorable avec les félicitations du jury. His supervisor from the ICMAB-CSIC, Dr. Rosario Núñez, was very happy for him. The thesis was entitled "Synthesis and characterization of new carborane derivatives for photo-optical and medicinal applications". 

Dr. Mengdi Qian from the Laboratory of Multifunctional Oxides and Complex Structures (MULFOX) successfully defended her PhD thesis on Friday, 16 November. Congratulations!

Dr. Bernat Mundet defended his PhD thesis on "Atomic-scale characterization of structural distortions in perovskite oxide thin films" Monday, 9 October 2018, with great success, surrounded by his friends, family and colleagues! Congratulations! 

Doctor Núria Portolés Gil from the Supercritical Fluids and Functional Matirials Group at ICMAB defended her PhD thesis on Monday, 18 November 2019. Her thesis was entitled "Green synthesis of coordination polymers using supercritical carbon dioxide", and was supervised by Dr. Concepción Domingo and Dr. Ana Maria López-Periago, from the ICMAB, and Dr. Jose Antonio Ayllón, from the UAB. Congratulations, Núria! Continue reading to know more about here next steps!

Doctor Yu Chen from the Laboratory of Multifunctional Thin Films and Complex Structures (MULFOX) Group at ICMAB defended his PhD thesis on Thursday, 14 November 2019 at the ICMAB. His thesis "Artificial Synapses based on the Photoconductance of LaAlO₃/SrTiO₃ Quantum Wells" was supervised by Gervasi Herranz. Congratulations! Continue reading to know more about Yu Chen!

We have a new Doctor at the ICMAB, Docor Qianzhe Zhang, from the Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites Group (NN) at ICMAB, who defended his PhD thesis on Friday, 4 October 2019. His thesis, supervised by Dr. Martí Gich and Dr. Adrián Carretero was entitled "Microstructural Control of Epitaxial α-Quartz Films". Do you know what Qianzhe will miss the most? Continue reading!

Congratulations to Dr. Arpita Saha for successfully defending her PhD Thesis on "Tuning the properties of quantum nanocrystals and magnetic nanoparticles using spherical ligands: carboranes and metallacarboranes". If you want to know more about Arpita and her stay at the ICMAB, read more below!

Dr. Laia Soler, former PhD researcher under the supervision of Prof. Xavier Obradors and Dr. Susagna Ricart (Superconducting and Large Scale Nanostructures group at ICMAB) defended her PhD thesis entitled "Liquid-assisted ultrafast growth of superconducting films derived from chemical solutions" publicly on 1 March 2019 at the ICMAB-CSIC Auditorium. We have interviewed her to know a little bit more about her PhD and her life at the ICMAB!

Dr. Rafael Cichelero, former PhD researcher under the supervision of Dr. Gervasi Herranz (MULFOX group at ICMAB), defended his PhD thesis entitled "Diffractive multifunctional plasmonic systems" publicly on 25 January 2019 at the IMB-CNM-CSIC Auditorium. We have interviewed him to know a little bit more about his PhD!

Congratulations Xavier!

Congratulations to Dr. Francesc Bejarano from the the NANOMOL group for successfully defending hid PhD Thesis on molecular conductors and switches for electronics at ICMAB! Francesc defended his PhD Thesis, supervised by Prof. Concepció Rovira and Dr. Núria Crivillers, on Friday, 26 October 2018.

Dr. Bohores Villarejo defended his PhD thesis on "Synthesis of defect free YBa₂Cu₃O_7-x films over 1µm by CSD using Inkjet Printing" on Friday, 14 September 2018, with great success, surrounded by his friends, family and colleagues! Congratulations!