Nazario Martín is Full Professor of Organic Chemistry at the UCM and Deputy Director of the new IMDEA-Nanoscience Institute of the Community of Madrid. He has been visiting professor at the universities of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Los Angeles (UCLA) and at the universities of Angers and Strasbourg (France). He is Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universities of Havana (Cuba, 2012) and Castilla-La Mancha (Spain, 2016). Prof. Martín's research covers different topics with special emphasis on the chemistry of carbon nanostructures such as fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, graphene and carbon quantum dots, molecular wires, and electroactive molecules in the context of electronic transfer processes, applications in photovoltaics, chirality and nanoscience. He has directed 45 Doctoral Theses and is co-editor of 6 books and 14 special issues in prestigious international journals. He has been General Editor of the journal Anales de Química (2000-2005), member of the editorial committee and international advisory of the journals: Journal of Materials Chemistry (2000-2006), Chemical Communications (2006-2011), ChemSusChem (2011-2015) and he has been Regional Editor for Europe of the journal Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures. He has been until recently (2019) a member of the editorial board of the journals: The Journal of Organic Chemistry and Accounts of Chemical Research (ACS). Currently he belongs to the international advisory board of ChemPlusChem, Chemistry-An Asian Journal and ChemNanoMat (Wiley-VCH) and member of the advisory board of the journals Chemical Society Reviews and Chemical Communications (RSC). He is editor of the Scientific Reports journal of the Nature Publishing group. In 2015-2019 he has been Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Materials Chemistry (A, B and C) of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
The research interests at the Prof. Martín’s group span a range of targets with emphasis on the molecular and supramolecular chemistry of carbon nanostructures such as fullerenes, carbon nanotubes and graphene, p-conjugated systems as molecular wires and electroactive molecules, in the context of electron transfer processes, photovoltaic applications and nanoscience. In particular, the group is currently engaged in:
Sara Abdollahzadeh Ghom received her PhD in nanoscience from University of Barcelona in 2012. Since then, she has been involved in teaching and research. Currently, she is a researcher in ¨Nanocarbons and organic Photovoltaics¨ member of Prof. Nazario Martín Group.
Agustín Molina Ontoria obtained his PhD from the Complutense University of Madrid under the supervision of Prof. Nazario Martín, where he was focused on photoinduced electron transfer in covalently linked donor–acceptor systems through molecular wires of organic nature. From 2011 to 2014, he joined the lab of Prof. Luis Echegoyen as a postdoctoral researcher, where he expanded his research interests to carbon nanostructures, such as carbon nano-onions and organic photovoltaic solar cells. In 2014, he moved to IMDEA Nanoscience, where he is currently undertaking a second postdoc, with a focus on the synthesis of easily attainable new organic hole-transporting materials for perovskite solar cells to establish the relationship between structure and photovoltaic performance.
José M. Santos Barahona graduated in Chemistry in 2005 at Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). He obtained his PhD in 2010 under supervision of Prof. Nazario Martín and Dr. Beatriz Illescas, Organic Molecular Materials Group at UCM, his thesis topic was fullerene based electroactive systems from both supramolecular and covalent approach; during his PhD he spent three months in a short research stay with Prof. James R. Durrant at Imperial College London familiarizing with transient absorption experiments. From 2011 until 2014 he was Postdoctoral Research Assistant with Prof. Martin R. Bryce in Durham University (UK), in this position he researched new deep-blue emitting copolymers for OLED and thermally activated delayed fluorescence materials (TADF). Since 2014 he moved to Madrid to join IMDEA Nanociencia to develop new materials with low band gap properties with Prof. Nazario Martín as postdoc researcher under the AMAROUT II program.
Javier Urieta Mora was born in 1990 in Madrid, Spain. He obtained his degree in Chemistry in 2014 at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a Master degree in Organic Chemistry in 2015 at the same University. From September 2015 he joined the group as Ph.D. student under the supervision of Dr. Agustín Molina Ontoria and Prof. Nazario Martín. In November 2020, he obtained his PhD with a thesis focused on “Design and synthesis of organic p-type semiconductors: Toward efficient Perovskite Solar Cells”. His research interests are focused on materials for optoelectronic apllications. He is currently researching on the synthesis of charge-selective layers for Perovskites solar cells, the preparation of tailored organic ligands for metal-organic frameworks and the preparation of molecular nanographenes.
During my bachelors degree in Chemistry at Complutense University of Madrid, I mainly developed synthetic organic chemistry techniques, having done my bachelor thesis at UCM Pluridisciplinary Institute in the synthesis of fluorescent Ca(II) selective probes. After that, I further developed my skills enrolling in the Interuniversity Organic Chemistry Master, where I finished my master's thesis in the development and application of organic reactions in flow microreactors, at Eli Lilly & Co. There, I performed classic organic chemistry procedures along with ozonolysis reactions using a gas-liquid flow platform, developing new techniques to obtain pharmacologically relevant compounds.
Currently, I am a PhD student cosupervised by Dr Cristina Flors and Dr Nazario Martin at IMDEA Nanociencia. Here I work on the synthesis and advanced characterization of fluorescent glyco-fullerenes with biological properties.
