Rafael Delgado García

I was graduated in Chemical Engineering in 2019 from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, performing a final degree project in synthesis and characterization of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) under the supervision of Doctor Manuel Sanchez Sanchez from Instituto de Catálisis y Petroleoquímica (ICP-CSIC), for which I received a JAE-INTRO grant by the CSIC. Later, in summer of 2019, I did a stay funded by the SECAT in the ICP-CSIC under the guidance of Professor Joaquín Pérez Pariente, studying antique procedures of gold nanoparticle fabrication and their catalytic properties in oxidation processes of organic compounds. During my stay in the ICP-CSIC, from September of 2018 to August of 2019, I learned different characterization techniques such as polycrystalline XRD, NMR, TGA, UVvis and IR spectroscopies, DLS, gas and liquid chromatography, SEM microscopy, FAB mass spectrometry and nitrogen adsorption isotherms, among others. 

In 2020 I obtained a Master in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology from the UCLM, carrrying out a Master Thesis in micromagnetic simulations of dillute dispersions and dense structures of magnetic nanoparticles under the guidance of doctors José Miguel Colino and Gabriel Rodríguez Rodríguez. My Masters degree lead to the publication of 1 JCR paper in AIP Advances and 9 congress communications for EsMolNa, CMDGEFES, MMM, CEMAG YRinM and IMDEA ESRW conferences, with further papers on under preparation. I also received the UCLM-Santander grant for science research during that period. 

Actually, I’m doing my Thesis at the Instituto de Nanociencia, Nanotecnología y Materiales Moleculares INAMOL-UCLM with the ApNano group since October of 2020 under the supervision of doctors José Miguel Colino and Gabriel Rodriguez. With them I plan to study nanostructured magnetic and superconductor materials with cryogenic microscope techniques (AFM, MFM, SHPM), and other techniques such as SQUID, MOKE and transport measurements. The upcoming results will be likely reproduced with micromagnetic simulations and superconducting transport calculations as the derived from Ginzburg-Landau theory.