María Florencia Tellechea
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Biography
María Florencia Tellechea completed her degree in Chemistry at the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales of the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMdP), Argentina, in 2024, receiving an academic distinction. During her undergraduate studies, she completed a one-semester international academic exchange at the Instituto Tecnológico de Celaya, Mexico, through the Programa de Intercambio Académico Latinoamericano (PILA). She was also awarded with an Estímulo a las Vocaciones Científicas (EVC-CIN) fellowship by the Consejo Interuniversitario Nacional, through which she carried out a one-year research project in the Grupo de Fisicoquímica de Sistemas de Interés Ambiental of the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). After graduating, she worked at two pharmaceutical companies as an analytical development analyst. In September 2026, she joined the group Materiales + Tecnologías (GMT) of the Departamento de Ingeniería Química y del Medio Ambiente after being awarded a predoctoral fellowship from the Universidad del País Vasco (EHU) under the call convocatoria para la contratación de personal investigador en formación en la EHU. She is currently carrying out her doctoral research under the supervision of Dr. Arantzazu Santamaria Echart and Dr. Arantxa Eceiza.
Research
Her research focuses on the development and characterization of dynamic non-isocyanate polyurethane (NIPU) networks based on reversible covalent bonds, with particular interest in the relationship between network structure and composition and its thermomechanical properties, self-healing ability, and reprocessability.