LUCIA GARCIA

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.

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.

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.

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.

Predoctoral Researcher, University of Oviedo, Spain

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

Ph.D.: Inorganic Chemistry

University of Oviedo, Spain

Master’s Degree: Synthesis and Chemical Reactivity

  University of Oviedo, Spain

Bachelor of Science: Chemistry

  University of Oviedo, Spain

• Summa Cum Laude