nireEHU AINARA SARALEGI OTAMENDI
- Knowledge area
- Chemical Engineering
- Department
- Chemical and Environmental Engineering
- Centre
- Faculty of Engineering - Gipuzkoa
- Electronic mail
- ainara.saralegi@ehu.eus
PhD in Engineering of Renewable Materials by the UPV/EHU (2013), with special mention of ‘International Thesis’ and extraordinary doctorate award of the UPV/EHU. She is currently working as a temporary lecturer in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering. She worked as a research technologist at Tecnalia Research & Innovation Foundation (2018). She worked as a temporary lecturer at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the UPV/EHU (2017), in the Department of Organic Chemistry II. She was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship (2015-2016) from the Basque Government, and she worked in the Advanced Materials Research Group, at Virginia Tech University (Virginia, USA), under the direction of Dr. Johan Foster. Throughout 2014, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (Portugal), under the direction of Dr. Filomena Barreiro. During her PhD studies (2010-2013), she spent 3 months at the Adolphe Merkle Institue (Switzerland), under the direction of Drs. Christoph Weder and Johan Foster. She has published more than 20 scientific articles (Hirsh factor=17, more than 900 citations) and one book chapter. Additionally, she has participated in more than 30 national and international conferences. Her research is mainly focused on the design, synthesis, investigation of structure-property relationships, and exploitation of novel functional polymer systems, in particular biomimetic and renewable resource based materials.