[Biografía, versión en castellano]

Salvador Cardona (Prof. Ayudante Doctor de Química Física) realizó su doctorado en la Universidad de Valencia basado en el estudio teórico-experimental de imanes moleculares basados en polioxometalatos. Después de realizar su doctorado, obtuvo una beca postdoctoral con el objetivo a medio plazo de desarrollar nuevos materiales para aplicaciones espintrónicas moleculares bajo la supervisión del prof. S. Sanvito en el Trinity College Dublin (TCD). Su reincorporación a la UV se realizó en el seno de un equipo ERC-CoG (DECRESIM) durante 13 meses, hasta obtener una de las tres competitivas becas 'Atracción de Talento' del Campus de Excelencia Internacional y una beca 'Juan de la Cierva' del MINECO. En 2023 fue seleccionado para un prestigioso contrato Ramon y Cajal, y actualmente se encuentra estabilizado mediante un contrato docente como Profesor Ayudante Doctor en el Departamento de Química Física de la Universitat de València. Salvador Cardona-Serra ha sido coautor de más de 40 publicaciones Q1 en Química, Física y Ciencia de Materiales siendo el primer autor en varias de ellas. Su trabajo ha recibido más de 2200 citas, y cuenta un índice h de 22. 

Antonio Francés Monerris es licenciado por la Universitat de València (2009). En 2011 completó sus estudios de Máster en Química Orgánica por la Universitat Politècnica de València, donde hizo estancias de investigación a la industria farmacéutica. Ese mismo año empezó su Tesis Doctoral en química computacional en el Instituto de Ciencia Molecular (UV) bajo la supervisión de los Dres. Daniel Roca Sanjuán i Manuela Merchán en el grupo QCEXVAL (Quantum Chemistry of the Excited State of Valencia). El proyecto de Tesis Doctoral estudió los principios fundamentales de daño químico y fotoquímico a las bases nitrogenadas del ADN mediante el uso de herramientas teóricas sofisticadas de tipo ab initio (a partir de los primeros principios). En 2014, hizo una estancia en la Universidad de Uppsala (Suecia) supervisada por el Prof. Roland Lindh, donde abordó el estudio de reacciones quimioluminiscentes.

En 2017, el Dr. Francés inició su etapa postdoctoral a Nancy (Francia) con el Prof. Antonio Monari, donde fue reconocido como “Investigador de Alto Nivel” por el gobierno regional “Région Grand Est”. En 2019 ganó el contrato postdoctoral competitivo APOSTD financiado por la Generalitat Valenciana, para trabajar con los Profesores Antonio Monari (Nancy, Francia) e Iñaki Tuñón (València).  Durante los casi 3 años y medio de posdoctorado en Francia, el Dr. Francés llevó a cabo estudios punteros relacionados con la dinámica no adiabática del estado excitado y simulaciones híbridas QM/MM avanzadas de sistemas biológicos.

El retorno de Antonio en València se consolidó en 2021 con el otorgamiento de un contrato Juan de la Cierva (reincorporación) financiado por el Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, para investigar al Departamento de Química Física de la UV con el Prof. Iñaki Tuñón. Más tarde, se reincorporó como miembro activo de QCEXVAL ya como Profesor Ayudante Doctor. El Dr. Francés es Investigador Principal de un proyecto nacional que diseña y estudia mecanismos de terapia anticáncer inducida por luz basados en compuestos de nueva generación.

Dr. Daniel Tordera is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Physical Chemistry and the Molecular Science Institute (ICMol) of the University of Valencia.

He received his PhD in Nanotechnology at the University of Valencia in 2014, where he studied light-emitting electrochemical cells (LECs), an ionic organic electronic system for light emission. His PhD received the Outstanding Doctorate Award by the University of Valencia and the Nanomatmol Award to the best PhD at a National level by the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry. His work elucidated the operational mechanism of LECs and lead to the fabrication of stable, fast, efficient and bright devices. As a step forward, he started his own company, Lec-Val Lighting, a spin-off created to commercialize the results of his PhD. The company was chosen as one of the most innovative ideas by the Repsol Entrepreneurship Fund. Subsequently, he spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher in the Laboratory of Organic Electronics at Linköping University, working in the field of optics and plasmonics for energy and sensing applications. In 2017, he joined Holst Centre at TNO as a Senior Researcher where he led the development on near infrared photodetectors, managing an interdisciplinary team of research staff and engineers and working in projects for world leading high-tech and consumer electronics companies. He also led the business development of his research line, including strategy roadmap and intellectual property portfolio. He worked in the fields of biometrics and healthcare and made achievements including the first noncontact reflective large-area vein pattern imager based on organic photodetectors, a near-infrared photodetector array for biomedical applications and a large-area fingerprint array complying with the FBI standards. Since Nov. 2020, Dr. Tordera is at the University of Valencia, where he focuses on the topics of perovskite photodetectors and LEDs, OLEDs and LECs, with works such as the first transparent LEC and the development of a semitransparent near-infrared perovskite photodetector, amongst others.

Dr. Tordera has published 64 papers and 1 book chapter (almost all Q1). His work has been cited over 3000 times (h-index 32). He is an inventor of 4 patents. His work has been presented at 40 international conferences (22 author, 29 co-author). He has been the principal investigator of 2 projects and has participated in 12 projects. He has been the research manager of multiple contracts with private companies (NDA-protected). He has been an evaluator for the European Innovation Council (EIC) at the European Comission, the Austrian Science Fund and the Latvian Council of Science. He has been a reviewer for the major editorial groups (Wiley, ACS, RSC, Springer Nature, etc.). He has supervised 3 BSc, 4 MSc and 1 PhD students and he is currently co-supervising 3 PhD candidates. He has received the European Materials Research Society Spring Meeting Young Scientist Award in 2012, the Society of Information Display Distinguished Paper Award in 2019, selected as Journal of Materials Chemistry C Emerging Investigator in 2022 and the XVIII Scientific Technical Award Ciutat d’Algemesí in 2023, amongst others. He has been a visiting researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara and he has carried out stays at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source in Ithaca and the Columbia University in New York. He has been a guest lecturer at the ITMO University in Saint Petersburg, where he applied his entrepreneurship experience to teach business development to multidisciplinary science MSc students. 

At the University of Valencia, he is teaching Physical Chemistry courses at the Faculties of Chemistry and Farmacy. Students have praised his innovative teaching by granting him one of the highest ratings in his Department. Since 2022 he is the Educational Innovation Coordinator of the Faculty of Chemistry. He has published 3 educational innovation articles, presented his work in 9 conferences, and he participates in a project focused on active teaching methodologies. He has led a university-wide innovative project to promote science interdisciplinarity amongst the students at the University and he has been an organizer in the national Chemistry Education conference (Indoquim). He participates in the Chemistry Olympics and in Lab activities to promote Chemistry for high school students.