Dr. Zulay Pardo Botero
Zulay D. Pardo-Botero obtained a B.S in Chemistry in 2006 from Universidad del Valle (Colombia). Then, she moved to Madrid where she enrolled at Universidad Complutense de Madrid and received a M.S. in Organic Synthesis in 2009 and a Ph.D. in 2014. She joined the group of Prof. Antonio Herrera and Roberto Martínez-Álvarez where her work was focused on the development and optimization of ultrafast NMR pulse sequences, to monitor organic reactions in real-time. Additionally, in 2010 she was a visiting scholar at The Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel under the guidance of Prof. Lucio Frydman.
In 2016, she joined IMDEA Nanociencia as an Instrument Scientist responsible for the NMR Service and Chemical Facilities for Molecular Analysis and Characterization Laboratory. Currently, she is also in charge of the implementation of a Quality Management System based on ISO 9001:2015 at the Nanomaterials Characterization Service under the guidance of Prof. Emilio M. Pérez.