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LUCIA GARCIA

LUCIA GARCIA

Bristol, Bristol

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About LUCIA GARCIA:

Detail-orientated chemist with strong laboratory experience, involving synthesis/characterisation of organic/inorganic/magnetic compounds, materials, and nanoparticles, with a creative thinking to solve work-related issues and generate high quality results. Familiar with various Analytical techniques including Ultraviolet-visible spectrophotometry, Fourier Transform Infrared and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, Thermogravimetric Analysis, Transmission Electron Microscopy, Magnetic Hyperthermia and SQUID magnetometry. Highly ambitious, self-motivated, organized, capable to work under pressure and on my own initiative/in a team, looking for a permanent role in industry.

Experience

2021-09-2020-10

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Public University of Navarra – Institute for Advanced Materials and Mathematics, Spain

  • Projects: Magnetic nanoparticles for theragnostic platforms and 3D printing of magnetic polymers.
  • Synthesis/characterization of magnetic nanoparticles (Fe3O4@SiO2) and controlled load/release of drugs through magnetic hyperthermia.
  • Maintained the inventory and ordered raw material.
  • Responsible for creating, improving, and developing research project strategies.
  • Mentored and advised new students/collaborators.
  • Produced regular reports, group meetings, and planned monthly lab schedules.
  • Used new techniques for the synthesis of mesoporous silica-coated magnetite nanoparticles: co-precipitation, solvothermal, sol-gel, calcination, filtration, centrifugation, precipitation, digestion.
  • Utilized new analysis instrumentation: UV-vis, powder X-Ray crystallography, SQUID magnetometry, TEM, TGA/DSC, zeta potential, DLS, magnetic hyperthermia and nitrogen sorption isotherms.
2019-08-2016-02

Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Bath, UK

  • Project: Augmentation of Alkaline Earth Reactivity: An FLP Analogy.
  • Synthesis/characterization of Alkaline-Earth complexes for green catalysis. Synthesis and catalysis of organic compounds.
  • Maintained the inventory and ordered raw material.
  • Mentored and advised new students/collaborators.
  • Responsible for creating, improving, and developing research project strategies.
  • Instrumentation/techniques used: FT-IR, 1D and 2D NMR, single-crystal X-Ray crystallography, wet chemistry, extraction, distillation, crystallization, filtration, chromatography, glovebox and Schlenk techniques for air-sensitive compounds, and drying procedures for solvents.
2015-12-2015-07

Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Oviedo, Spain

  • Project: N-Heterocyclic carbenes functionalized: Synthesis and formation of metal complexes.
  • Inventory; raw material ordering.
  • Mentored and advised new students.
2015-07-2011-09

Predoctoral Researcher, University of Oviedo, Spain

  • Project: Synthesis and reactivity of complexes with heterocyclic carbene and diaminocarbene ligands.
  • Synthesis of organic and organometallic compounds. Elements handled: transition metals, non-metals, metalloids, halogens. 
  • Instrumentation/techniques used: FT-IR, 1D and 2D NMR, single-crystal X-Ray crystallography, wet chemistry, filtration, crystallization, distillation, Schlenk technique for air-sensitive compounds, and drying procedures for solvents, melting point.
  • Inventory, raw material ordering.
  • Mentored and advised new students.
2011-07-2010-09

Predoctoral Researcher, University of Oviedo, Spain

  • Project: Chemistry of transition metal complexes with carbene ligands.

Education

2015-07

Ph.D.: Inorganic Chemistry

University of Oviedo, Spain

2011-07

Master’s Degree: Synthesis and Chemical Reactivity

  University of Oviedo, Spain

2010-07

Bachelor of Science: Chemistry

  University of Oviedo, Spain

  • Summa Cum Laude

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