RAQUEL FERNANDEZ SALVADOR

Knowledge area

Chemical Engineering

Department

Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Centre

Faculty of Engineering - Gipuzkoa

Electronic mail

raquel.fernandez@ehu.eus

Raquel Fernández obtained her Degree in Chemistry in 2004 at the Faculty of Chemistry of Donostia-San Sebastian of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). In 2005, she joined the Group `Materials + Technologies´ (GMT) of the Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department at the Engineering School of Donostia-San Sebastian (UPV/EHU) thanks to a predoctoral fellowship and in 2009 she obtained the PhD Degree from that university. Prof. Iñaki Mondragon and Dr. Patricia Oyanguren from the National University of Mar del Plata (Argentina), where she enjoyed a 2-month fellowship, supervised the thesis project. In 2011, she was awarded a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship from UPV/EHU, under the supervision of Prof. Iñaki Mondragon and Dr. Agnieszka Tercjak. In 2012, she spent a 3-month postdoctoral research stay at McGill University of Montreal (Canada), under the supervision of Dr. Christopher J. Barrett. Currently, she works at the GMT group as lecturer and researcher. She has published around 35 scientific articles and 3 book chapters. Additionally, she has participated in around 45 national and international conferences and 18 research projects. Her main research line is the synthesis and characterization of different materials modified with azobenzene groups with reversible induced birefringence. In particular, the studied materials are: epoxy systems, block copolymers, silver nanoparticles, nanocomposites and chitosan.