GIMENO SECO, MIGUEL

Dr. Gimeno got his First Degree in Chemistry for the University of Barcelona (Spain) in 1998. After a collaborative one-year trainee program on living-radical polymerization studies at Dr. Cor Koning's research lab at the Free University of Brussels (VUB) in Belgium, he joined Dr. James Feast group in the Chemistry Dept. at the University of Durham (UK) in the synthesis of electrostrictive polymers for which he obtained his Ph.D. in 2003 (Thesis viva in October 2002). From 2003 to 2005 he worked as researcher in Dr. Jaume Veciana's group at the Materials Science Institute of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) in processing of biopolymers for pharmaceutical applications. Dr. Gimeno moved out to Mexico in 2005 to work in the Faculty of Chemistry at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), in which he obtained the full time Professorship in 2012. His research focuses on the enzyme-mediated synthesis of polymers as potential biomaterials in multidisciplinary collaborative projects.