Materials Science and Engineering

Biography

Nekane Guarrotxena was a PhD in chemistry from the University of Complutense, Madrid-Spain (1994). She held post-doctoral research positions at ENSAM, Paris-France (1994-1995) and University of Montpellier-France (1995-1997). She was the Vice-Director of ICTP-CSIC (2001-2005) and visiting-professor at UCSB and at UCI, California-USA (2008-2011). She is currently Research Scientist at the ICTP-CSIC-Spain. She has published more than 60 peer-reviewed publications, 4 books (also co-editor), more than 24 book chapters and 1 patent; and serves as an Editorial Board member of several journals, organizing committee member of scientific-technological events and External Expertise Consultant on I+D+i for National and International Agencies. Her studies focuse on the synthesis and assembly of hybrid-nanomaterials, nanoplasmonics, smart nanomaterials and their nanobiotechnology applications (bioimaging, drug delivery, therapy and biosensing).

Abstract

Abstract : Encoded SERS plasmonic NPs in nanomedicine