Armando Maestro

Ikerbasque Research Associate, MPC-CFM

Ikerbasque Research Associate at the Materials Physics Center (CSIC-UPV/EHU).

Research line:

Neutron science applied to the study of biological interfaces and bio-inspired interfacial materials.

Wellcome Trust ISSF Junior Interdisciplinary Fellow (2015 - 2016); Junior Research Fellow Wolfson College, University of Cambridge (2014 - 2017); Newton International Royal Society Fellow (2013 - 2015).

Previous research experience: Scientist and Instrument responsible at Institut Max Von Laue - Paul Langevin (Grenoble, France); Research associate at Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK); Postdoctoral fellow at University of Twente (Enschede, Netherlands) and Solid States Physics Laboratory, University Paris-Saclay (Orsay, France).

PhD in Chemical Physics (2010) from the University Complutense of Madrid, Spain.

2024

Article / Combined thermodynamic and time-resolved structural analysis of interactions between AP2 and biomimetic plasma membranes provides insights into clathrin-mediated endocytosis

https://www.biorxiv.org/

Armando Maestro, Nathan R. Zaccai, J.F. Gonzalez-Martinez, P. Sanchez-Puga, J. Tajuelo, M. A. Rubio, Andreas Santamaria, J. Carrascosa-Tejedor, D. Pereira, I. Marín-Montesinos, P. Gutfreund, Richard Campbell, J. Kotar, Bernard T. Kelly, Pietro Cicuta, David J. Owen

Article / Exploring the interaction of lipid bilayers with curcumin-laponite nanoparticles: implications for drug delivery and therapeutic applications

https://chemrxiv.org/

Nisha Pawar , Miriam Peña-Figueroa , Ester Verde-Sesto , Armando Maestro , Alberto Alvarez-Fernandez

Article / Structure of graphene oxide-phospholipid monolayers: A grazing incidence X-ray diffraction and neutron and X-ray reflectivity study

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science

Dolores Merchán, M.; Pawar, N.; Santamaria, A.; Sánchez-Fernández, R.; Konovalov, O.; Maestro, A.; Mercedes Velázquez, M.

Article / Softness matters: effects of compression on the behavior of adsorbed microgels at interfaces

Soft Matter

Gerelli, Y.; Camerin, F.; Bochenek, S.; Schmidt, M.M.; Maestro, A.; Richtering, W.; Zaccarelli, E.; Scotti, A.

Review / Non-equilibrium states in polyelectrolyte-surfactant systems at fluid interfaces: A critical review

Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science

Puente-Santamaría, A.; Ortega, F.; Maestro, A.; Rubio, R.G.; Guzmán, E.

2023

Article / Softness Matters: Effects of Compression on the Behavior of Adsorbed Microgels at Interfaces

arxiv.org

Yuri Gerelli, Fabrizio Camerin, Steffen Bochenek, Maximilian M Schmidt, Armando Maestro, Walter Richtering, Emanuela Zaccarelli, Andrea Scotti

Article / Developing advanced models of biological membranes with hydrogenous and deuterated natural glycerophospholipid mixtures

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science

Corucci, G.; Batchu, K.C.; Luchini, A.; Santamaria, A.; Frewein, M.P.K.; Laux, V.; Haertlein, M.; Yamaryo-Botté, Y.; Botté, C.Y.; Sheridan, T.; Tully, M.; Maestro, A.; Martel, A.; Porcar, L.; Fragneto, G.

Article / Engineering phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate model membranes enriched in endocytic cargo: A neutron reflectometry, AFM and QCM-D structural study

Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces

Pereira, D.; Santamaria, A.; Pawar, N.; Carrascosa-Tejedor, J.; Sardo, M.; Mafra, L.; Guzmán, E.; Owen, D.J.; Zaccai, N.R.; Maestro, A.; Marín-Montesinos, I.

Article / Probing the effect of the capping polyelectrolyte on the internal structure of Layer-by-Layer decorated nanoliposomes

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science

Mateos-Maroto, A.; E. F. Rubio, J.; Prévost, S.; Maestro, A.; Rubio, R.G.; Ortega, F.; Guzmán, E.

Article / Control of the structure and morphology of polypeptide/surfactant spread films by exploiting specific interactions

Nanoscale

Carrascosa-Tejedor, J.; Miñarro, L.M.; Efstratiou, M.; Varga, I.; Skoda, M.W.A.; Gutfreund, P.; Maestro, A.; Lawrence, M.J.; Campbell, R.A.

Article / Investigation on the relationship between lipid composition and structure in model membranes composed of extracted natural phospholipids

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science

Santamaria, A.; Batchu, K.C.; Fragneto, G.; Laux, V.; Haertlein, M.; Darwish, T.A.; Russell, R.A.; Zaccai, N.R.; Guzmán, E.; Maestro, A.

Article / Unravelling the orientation of the inositol-biphosphate ring and its dependence on phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate cluster formation in model membranes

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science

Santamaria, A.; Carrascosa-Tejedor, J.; Guzmán, E.; Zaccai, N.R.; Maestro, A.

Article / Effects of Charge Density on Spread Hyperbranched Polyelectrolyte/Surfactant Films at the Air/Water Interface

Langmuir

Carrascosa-Tejedor, J.; Tummino, A.; Fehér, B.; Kardos, A.; Efstratiou, M.; Skoda, M.W.A.; Gutfreund, P.; Maestro, A.; Lawrence, M.J.; Campbell, R.A.; Varga, I.

Review / Fluid Interfaces as Models for the Study of Lipid-Based Films with Biophysical Relevance

Coatings

Argudo, P.G.; Maestro, A.; Guzmán, E.

Review / Association of oppositely charged polyelectrolyte and surfactant in solution: equilibrium and nonequilibrium features

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Guzmán, E.; Maestro, A.; Ortega, F.; Rubio, R.G.

2022

Article / In-situ study of the impact of temperature and architecture on the interfacial structure of microgels

Nature Communications

Bochenek, S.; Camerin, F.; Zaccarelli, E.; Maestro, A.; Schmidt, M.M.; Richtering, W.; Scotti, A.

Article / Engineering Thermoresponsive Emulsions with Branched Copolymer Surfactants

Macromolecular Materials and Engineering

da Silva, M.A.; Rajbanshi, A.; Opoku-Achampong, D.; Mahmoudi, N.; Porcar, L.; Gutfreund, P.; Tummino, A.; Maestro, A.; Dreiss, C.A.; Cook, M.T.

Article / Polyelectrolyte/surfactant films: from 2D to 3D structural control

Chemical Communications

Carrascosa-Tejedor, J.; Santamaria, A.; Tummino, A.; Varga, I.; Efstratiou, M.; Lawrence, M.J.; Maestro, A.; Campbell, R.A.

Article / Strong synergistic interactions in zwitterionic–anionic surfactant mixtures at the air–water interface and in micelles: The role of steric and electrostatic interactions

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science

Ma, K.; Li, P.; Wang, Z.; Chen, Y.; Campana, M.; Doutch, J.; Dalgliesh, R.; Maestro, A.; Thomas, R.K.; Penfold, J.

Article / Strikingly Different Roles of SARS-CoV-2 Fusion Peptides Uncovered by Neutron Scattering

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Santamaria, A.; Batchu, K.C.; Matsarskaia, O.; Prévost, S.F.; Russo, D.; Natali, F.; Seydel, T.; Hoffmann, I.; Laux, V.; Haertlein, M.; Darwish, T.A.; Russell, R.A.; Corucci, G.; Fragneto, G.; Maestro, A.; Zaccai, N.R.

Article / Strikingly different roles of SARS-CoV-2 fusion peptides uncovered by SNR, SANS, QENS, and NSE experiments

Neutron News

Zaccai, N.R.; Maestro, A.

Editorial / Editorial: Biomimetic and bioinspired membranes to reconstruct the properties of natural systems

Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences

Almendro Vedia, V.G.; Martínez-Pedrero, F.; Maestro, A.; Guzmán, E.; Natale, P.

Review / Dilational Rheology of Fluid/Fluid Interfaces: Foundations and Tools

Fluids

Guzmán, E.; Maestro, A.; Carbone, C.; Ortega, F.; Rubio, R.G.

Review / A broad perspective to particle-laden fluid interfaces systems: from chemically homogeneous particles to active colloids

Advances in Colloid and Interface Science

Guzmán, E.; Martínez-Pedrero, F.; Calero, C.; Maestro, A.; Ortega, F.; Rubio, R.G.

Review / Soft Colloidal Particles at Fluid Interfaces

Polymers

Guzmán, E.; Maestro, A.

Synthesis and characterization of biocompatible single-chain nanoparticles interacting with biomimetic model systems.

UPV/EHU

Miriam Peña Figeroa - In preparation

Synthesis and characterization of biocompatible polymer nanoparticles interacting with biomimetic model systems

UPV/EHU

Leyre Oria Ledesma - In preparation

Tuning the Assembly of Proteins in Lipid Bilayers

UPV/EHU

Sebastian Jimenez - In preparation

Controlling Extended Structures in Spread Polyelectrolyte/Surfactant Films at the Air/Water Interface

University of Manchester

Javier Carrascosa - Finished

STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION INVESTIGATION ON MEMBRANE-BINDING PROTEINS

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Andreas Santamaria - Finished

2023

Experimental Techniques I: Structural Characterization in the Master’s degree in nanoscience (UPV-EHU and CFM, in collaboration with CIC nanoGUNE and DIPC).

2022

Experimental Techniques I: Structural Characterization in the Master’s degree in nanoscience (University of the Basque Country and CFM, in collaboration with CIC nanoGUNE and DIPC).

2021

Experimental Techniques I: Structural Characterization in the Master’s degree in nanoscience ( from the Materials Physics Department of the University of the Basque Country and CFM, in collaboration with CIC nanoGUNE and DIPC).

2023

Conference paper | Pulmonary surfactant structure as solved by neutron reflectometry and atomic force microscopy

Ainhoa Collada, Armando Maestro, Johann Mertens, Emma Batllori-Badia, Alberto Galindo, Jesus Perez-Gil, Antonio Cruz

2022

Invited talk | Tailoring the interfacial assembly of colloidal nanoparticles

Journées de la matière condensée 2022 - Invited talk

Armando Maestro

Oral presentation | ARGITU: a proposal for a low-energy accelerator-driven neutron source in the Basque Country

First International Meeting on Opportunities and Challenges for Hicans - IMoH2022 - Oral presentation

F. J. Villacorta, M. Pérez, J. M. Porro, V. Petrenko, S. Lanceros-Méndez, F. Fernandez-Alonso, A. Maestro, A. Arbe, J. Colmenero

Oral presentation | Strikingly different roles of SARS-COV-2 fusion peptides uncovered by neutron scattering

X Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española de Técnicas Neutrónicas. SETN2022 - Oral presentation

Armando Maestro

Oral presentation | Strikingly different roles of SARS-COV-2 fusion peptides uncovered by neutron scattering

8th International IBERIAN BIOPHYSICS CONGRESS - Oral presentation

Armando Maestro