She
was
awarded
with
a
Special
Mention
for
Young
Researchers
from
the
Canary
Government
in
2003.
She
has
conducted
several
stays
at
prestigious
research
centers
in
USA
and
France,
including
Wake-Forest
University
(Prof.
Hinze),
Iowa-State
University
(Prof.
Armstrong),
Université
Calude-Bernard
de
Lyon
(Prof.
Berthod)
and
The
University
of
Toledo
(Prof.
Anderson).
She
has
served
as
Research
Associate
at
ULL
in
2004
as
“Juan
de
la
Cierva”
at
ULL
in
2005-2008,
as
Research
Associate
linked
to
a
ULL
project
in
2009,
as
a
“Ramón
y
Cajal”
Researcher
at
ULL
in
2010-2015,
as
Associate
Professor
(Profesora
Contratado
Doctor
Tipo
1)
at
ULL
in
2015-2018,
and
as
Professor
at
ULL
in
2018-2022.
She
is
a
Full
Professor
at
ULL
since
October
2022
and
member
of
the
Institute
of
Tropical
Diseases
and
Healthcare
of
the
Canary
Islands
since
October
2018.
She is the PI of the MAT4LL Research Group at ULL.
She
has
been
Principal
Investigator
of
several
national
research
projects
and
regional
projects.
She
has
published
over
125
articles,
2
patents
and
over
30
book
chapters.
She
is
a
member
of
the
Editorial
Board
of
the
Elsevier
journal
“Analytica
Chimica Acta” and has edited 2 books (Wiley, Elsevier).
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Dr.
Jorge
Pasán
got
his
BSc
in
Physics
in
2001
at
Universidad
de
La
Laguna
(ULL).
He
completed
his
PhD
in
Physics
in
2006 at the same university through a FPU grant, and specifically in Coordination Chemistry and Molecular Magnetism.
He
has
conducted
several
stays
in
different
international
institutions,
including
Lawrence
Berkeley
National
Laboratory
(USA),
Laboratoire
Léon
Brillouin
at
CE
Paris-Saclay
(France),
Institut
für
Anorganische
Chemie
–
Karlsruhe
Institute
of
Technology
(Germany),
Synchrotron
Radiation
Facility
in
Grenoble
(France),
and
Instituto
de
Ciencia
Molecular
in
Valencia
(Spain).
From
2017
to
2021,
he
was
an
Agustín
de
Betancourt
Researcher
at
ULL,
while
he
held
a
position
as
Senior
Excellence
Researcher
from
Caixa-CajaCanarias
at
ULL
from
2021
to
2024.
He
obtained
the
R3
certification
in
2023
and
he
is
Professor
(Profesor
Titular)
in
the
Chemistry
Department
at
ULL
since
2024.
From
2014,
his
research
took
a
new
direction,
and
he
started
to
work
on
the
use
of
metal-organic
frameworks
in
sample
preparation.
Since
then,
he
is
co-PI
of
the
MAT4LL Research Group at ULL.
He
is
principal
investigator
of
the
current
national
project
in
the
research
group
and
has
participated
in
the
design/writing
of
13
research
projects
since
the
project
MAT2004-03312.
He
has
published
over
145
articles
and
2
patents.
He
is
academic
editor
of
the
journal
Nanomaterials,
and
co-editor
of
an
Elsevier
book
(Metal-organic
frameworks
in
Analytical
Sample Preparation and Sensing).
Dr.
Verónica
Pino
got
her
B.S.
in
Chemistry
in
1997
at
Universidad
de
La
Laguna
(ULL)
with
Science
Graduate
Award
and
Best
Dossier
in
Chemistry.
She
conducted
her
PhD
research
through
a
FPU
grant,
obtaining
her
title
in
April
2002
with
“sobresaliente”
cum
laude
and
Doctorate Extraordinary Award from ULL.
