Postdoctoral Researchers

Iván Torres Moya was born the 19th October of 1990 in Ciudad Real.

He studied a Degree in Chemical Sciences (2008-2013) at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) with a final score of 9.0, receiving a Collaboration scolarship in his last academic course, beginning to form part of the group.

He complemented his academic background studying a Master Degree in Investigation in Chemistry (2013-2014) with a final score of 9.5. Meanwhile, he received a very competitive FPU scolarship to begin his PhD in the Department of Inorganic, Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the UCLM under the supervision of Dra. Pilar Prieto Núñez Polo and Dr. José Ramon Carrillo Muñoz (UCLM).

He obtained the International PhD in Chemical Sciences on 12^th February in 2019. During his PhD he acquired a lot of skills in Organic Chemistry, amongst them reactions under microwave irradiation, theoretical calculations, characterization of compounds employing different techniques and their application in different fields such as organic electronics, polymers, gels or biomedicine. He has attended more than twenty congresses related to his work and has written some scientific publications.

Furthermore, he has done some pre-doctoral stays. One of them in the group of Dr. Juan Teodomiro López Navarrete at the University of Málaga, one of the most relevant groups in the area of organic electronics in Spain, whose work is focused on the design and characterization of organic field-effect transistors (OFETs), and another one was in the group of Dr. Jonathan W. Steed in the University of Durham (United Kingdom), in which he worked with organogels and the crystallization of drugs.

Contact information:

Ivan.TorresMoya@uclm.es // Faculty of Chemical Sciences and Technologies// Avda. Camilo José Cela, 10 – 13071 Ciudad Real // Telephone Number: 926295300 Ext: 96345

Ana M. García Fernández acquired her bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) in 2011, with First Class Honors. She obtained her PhD in organic chemistry from the Complutense University (Madrid, Spain) in 2015, under the supervision of Prof. Martínez and Prof. Gil, focused on the design, synthesis and evaluation of phosphodiesterases inhibitors as novel potential drugs for the treatment of central nervous system disorders. During her PhD, she did two short stays: for the first, she joined Professor Luque’s group at the University of Barcelona in 2013 to perform molecular modeling and docking studies. In 2014, during her second stay, she spent five months with the group of Prof. Bräse (KIT, Germany) thanks to a fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

In 2016, she joined the group of Prof. Marchesan in Trieste (Italy) as postdoctoral researcher, where she worked on ultrashort heterochiral peptides that self-assemble into supramolecular hydrogels. During that period, she secured funding for two years, in the form of a Ramón Areces Foundation fellowship, to investigate the potential of those heterochiral peptides to interfere with the formation of pathological amyloids involved in pathologies as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s. In January 2019, she joined the group of Dr. Torbeev in the Institute of Supramolecular Science and Engineering (ISIS) at the University of Strasbourg in France. Her research was focused on the chemical synthesis of intrinsically disordered polypeptides to study their supramolecular self-assembly and aggregation into amyloids.

She moved to the Charles Sadron Institute (ICS) at the same university, to join the group of Dr. Ruiz-Carretero in September 2020. In this group, she worked in the synthesis and supramolecular characterization of self-assembled materials made of chiral, H-bonded pi-conjugated molecules to understand the role of chirality in organic electronics.

In January 2022, she has joined the UMSOC group as María Zambrano fellow to study the self-assembly of peptide-based materials using microfluidic devices, and to explore them as optical waveguide materials with applications in NMR spectroscopy.