INMA Impulso: Beatriz Zornoza & Alberto Concellón
Next Tuesday 18 June, from 12:00-13:00, in the Sala de Grados of the Faculty of Sciences we will have a seminar INMA Impulso by two of the Ramón y Cajal researchers of INMA:
Dr. Beatriz Zornoza will present ‘Towards high-performance membranes for sustainable energy and environmental remediation’.
Dr. Alberto Concellón will present ‘The new role of liquid crystals: Disruptive innovations in energy, sensing, optics and healthcare’.
Dr Beatriz Zornoza obtained her PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Zaragoza (2011, FPU program, and extraordinary doctorate award) under the supervision of Profs. Carlos Téllez and Joaquín Coronas. Her research career has been developed at the University of Zaragoza (working on several European and National projects) but she was away for more than 4 years, both at Instituto de Carboquímica (CSIC) within her “Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación” fellowship, and as an international visiting researcher at Technical University of Denmark (Denmark), Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, United States), Technical University of Delft (The Netherlands) and University of Montpellier (France). In 2024, she started her “Ramón y Cajal” contract at INMA in the “Membranes and Catalysis with Nanostructured Materials Group” (MECANOS) to progress on Membrane Technology to ensure efficient and environmentally friendly energy production by developing advanced nanotechnological materials.
Dr Alberto Concellón obtained his PhD in Chemistry in 2018 from the University of Zaragoza under the supervision of Dr. Pilar Romero and Dr. Mercedes Marcos. His PhD work focused on functional liquid crystals and their application in organic electronics, proton-conductive materials, and nanoporous polymers. During his PhD, he also undertook pre-doctoral stays at the Eindhoven University of Technology (4 months in the group of Prof. Albert Schenning), and the University of Calabria (3 months in the group of Prof. Attilio Golemme). After completing his PhD, he joined Prof. Tim Swager’s group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral researcher. His work there involved innovative designs of complex colloids, chiro-optical materials, conjugated polymers, and chemical sensors. After 4 years at MIT, he returned to the INMA as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow under Prof. José Luis Serrano. Since January 2023, Alberto has been a ‘Ramón y Cajal Fellow’ in the ‘Liquid Crystals and Polymers Group’ at INMA, focusing on functional self-assembled materials to address critical global challenges in organic electronics, point-of-care biosensing, and environmental remediation.
