Biography

David Mecerreyes (Ikerbasque Research Professor) graduated from the University of the Basque Country in 1994, and obtained the Ph.D. degree in 1998 from University of Liege (Belgium) working in the macromolecular engineering of biodegradable polyesters in the group of Prof. Robert Jérôme and Prof. Philippe Dubois. In 1999, he moved to California for a 2 year post-doc at IBM Almaden Research Centre working in the teams of Dr. James L. Hedrick and Dr. Craig J. Hawker. During his post-doctoral work, DM participated in the development of polymer brushes by living/controlled polymerization, the synthesis of polymer nanoparticles and the preparation of nanoporous low-dielectric constant materials for microelectronics. After his post-doctoral stay, he returned to Spain to join a young small private research institute, CIDETEC-IK4, Centre for Electrochemical Technologies. In 2001 he was awarded with a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology (MCYT) being elected as the number #1 proposal in Materials Science. Until November 2010, he was the head of the Nanotechnology Unit at CIDETEC.

Research

In January 2011, he took an Ikerbasque Research Professor position at POLYMAT- University of the Basque Country. He is leading a group specialized in polymer chemistry. The laboratory covers a range or research activities between organic and polymer chemistry, supramolecular chemistry and nanomaterials science. The final goal is to synthesize innovative polymeric materials for Emerging Technologies in sectors such as Energy and Environment.

Web-pages:

http://www.ikerbasque.net/index.php?option=com_researcher&task=view&rese=101&Itemid=302&lang=en

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mecerreyes-Research-Group/187100808022756?sk=info

Publications

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