Nekane Guarrotxena
Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain
Biography
Nekane Guarrotxena is a PhD from the University of Complutense, Madrid-Spain and was a Post-doctoral Research at the Ecole Nationale Superieure d´Arts et Metiers (ENSAM), Paris-France and the University of Science II, Montpellier-France. She was the Vice-Director of the Institute of Polymer Science and Technology (ICTP-CSIC) (2001-2005) and Visiting Professor at University of California, Santa Barbara-USA and the CaSTL at University of California, Irvine-USA (2008-2011). She is currently the Research Scientist at ICTP-CSIC (Spain), Editorial Board Member of some Materials Science and Chemistry journals and External Expertise Consultant on I+D+I management Policy for National and International Agencies. Her research interest focuses on the synthesis and assembly of hybrid nanomaterials, nanoplasmonics, and their uses in nanobiotechnology applications (bio-imaging, drug delivery, therapy and bio-sensing).