Ph D Students

Abelardo Sánchez Oliva is currently a Predoctoral Researcher at UCLM. He completed the International Baccalaureate in Science in 2016. He obtained his Degree in Chemistry in 2020 from UCLM with a mark of 8.48 (out of 10). In 2021, he received a Master's degree in Research in Chemistry from UCLM with a mark of 8.66 (out of 10). Since January of 2022, he has been pursuing a PhD in Chemistry with a fellowship from the UCLM's “Plan Propio”.

During this period, he has developed various methodologies for the synthesis of organic compounds with applications as optical waveguides and field-effect transistors. In the four-month period from April to July 2024, he undertook an international research stay in Strasbourg, France, under the supervision of Professor Paolo Samorì at the Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (ISIS). During this stay, he conducted research on MXenes, functionalized 2D materials with applications in energy storage.

Contact information:

e-mail. abelardo.sanchez@uclm.es ORCID: 0009-0009-8836-555X

Faculty of Chemical Sciences and Technologies// Avda. Camilo José Cela, 10 – 13071 Ciudad Real

Irene Chacón Jiménez was born the 25^th February of 2000 in Ciudad Real. He studied a Degree in Chemical Sciences (2018-2022) at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM). Meanwhile, in 2021 she obtained a collaboration grant awarded by IRICA (Instituto Regional de Investigación Científica Avanzada) for working under the supervision of Dr. Pilar Prieto.

In 2022, she obtained a collaboration grant awarded by the Ministry of Education. That year, she received the First Flash Communication Award in the category Degree’s project titled “Synthesis of arylethynyl pyrazine derivatives with application as optical waveguides” in XVI Young Science Symposium.

Juan Antonio García Romero was born in Villarrubia de los Ojos (Ciudad Real). He completed his secondary education (ESO) and Baccalaureate of Sciences at I.E.S. Guadiana (Villarrubia de los Ojos) between 2011 and 2017. From 2017 to 2022, he pursued a Degree in Chemistry at the Faculty of Chemical Sciences and Technologies (University of Castilla-La Mancha), during which he carried out an internship at Cooperativa El Progreso (Villarrubia de los Ojos). Subsequently, from 2022 to 2023, he completed the Master’s Degree in Chemistry at the same institution.

Currently, he is a PhD student in Sustainable Chemistry, focused on the development of biocompatible peptide-based biomaterials with optical waveguiding properties, applicable in phototherapy, diagnostics, and integrated photonic devices. Furthermore, the optimization of NMR spectroscopy through photoinduced hyperpolarization enhances sensitivity in the study of biomolecular processes, strengthening the connection between photonic innovation, new material design, and biomedical applications.

Yasmina Berruga Velázquez began her degree in Chemistry at the University of Castilla-La Mancha in 2019, completing internships at Piensos Inalsa and a research stay at the Regional Institute for Applied Scientific Research (IRICA) through a collaboration grant in 2022. In 2023, she completed her studies and received the Award for the Best Bachelor’s Thesis (TFG) granted by the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ), Territorial Section of Castilla-La Mancha (RSEQ-STCLM), and sponsored by Mervilab, as well as the Santander Excellence Scholarship. She subsequently pursued the master’s degree in chemistry (2023–2024), during which she was awarded a Santander Research Initiation scholarship and, upon completing both the scholarship and the master’s program, obtained a research support contract under a project within the MSOC-PHOTONICSNMR group of the Department of Inorganic, Organic, and Biochemistry at UCLM. In 2024, she began her PhD in Chemistry, focused on the development of supramolecular materials based on dipeptides for diverse applications, and in 2025 she obtained a predoctoral contract under the UCLM’s Institutional Program. Throughout her career, she has participated in several national and international conferences and has been actively involved in scientific outreach activities.