Ikerbasque Research Professor at Polymat, Polymer Materials Institute and Basque Center for Macromolecular Design and Engineering and Polymer Science and Technology Department, Faculty of Chemistry, UPV/EHU.
Research line:
Nucleation, crystallization, morphology and physical properties of polymers, biopolymers, nanocomposites, polymer blends and block copolymers. Soft matter and structured fluids rheology.Lorenzo Mendoza Fleury Prize (Polar Prize) from Fundación Empresas Polar and Paul J. Flory international research prize in polymer science (Polychar, 2011). Editor for Polymer Physics and Physical Chemistry for the journal POLYMER (since January 2018). Emeritus Professor from Simón Bolívar University (Caracas, Venezuela).
Research experience at University of Bristol (U.K.), Universidad Simón Bolívar (Venezuela), Mainz University (Germany), Hiroshima University (Japan). More than 330 publications, 10000 citations and h index=57.
M.Sc. in Chemistry from the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC), Caracas, Venezuela (1984) and Ph.D. in Physics (1989) from University of Bristol (U.K.).