My profile combines basic education in Chemistry (bachelor) and Materials Chemistry (PhD). I have carried out various predoctoral and postdoctoral stays at the Laboratoire de Chimie de Solides de l'Université de Bordeaux and Le Laboratoire des Fluorures de l’Université du Maine (Le Mans) under the supervision of Prof. G. Villeneuve and G. Ferey, respectively. Since 1994 I have been a University Professor and since 2007 Full Professor in Inorganic Chemistry. My scientific activity has been centred in the area of knowledge of inorganic chemistry and has focused on the synthesis and characterization of materials prepared under mild conditions. In a first stage he focused on the chemistry of vanadium phosphates. Later the line expands to other related systems (phosphates, arsenates...) including other transition elements.The work on these materials (with 2-D and open structures) was carried out in collaboration with the group of Prof. G. Ferey, and to a certain extent we can consider these solids as the precursors of the current MOFs. Starting in 1996, I open a new line of work on mesoporous materials in the ICMUV (very relevant at the time, since it was created in 1992 with the publication of an article in Nature by researchers from Mobil). Since 1996 I have led the Nanostructured Materials Unit, which was the first group at the University of Valencia to work on ordered mesoporous materials. The work team currently has 4 staff members and 4 people in training. Our activity starts on porous non-siliceous materials. We were able to prepare mesoporous alumina for the first time with the use of cationic surfactants and we also published one of the first articles describing mesoporous TiO2. Both articles have garnered a good number of citations and we can consider them classic references. But without a doubt, the achievement that I consider most relevant of my entire scientific career has been the development of the "Atrane Route": a preparative methodology based on the use of atrane complexes as hydrolytic precursors. This method leads to materials with high compositional and structural homogeneity. The bases of this method were published in Sol. Stat. Sci. 2, 405-420 (2000), and it is an article that ranks among the most cited of the magazine. We extended the method to a large variety of solids: silicas, mixed oxides, phosphates, oxynitrides etc. Another notable development was the synthesis of a new family of nanoparticulate silicas with bimodal hierarchical porosity (called UVM-7, Chem. Commun. 330-331 (2002)), which have an improved accessibility compared to the MCM-41. The versatility achieved by combining the atrane route and UVM-7 silicas, has allowed us to design a wide variety of porous materials with applications in emergent fields (catalysis, remediation, sensors, biotechnology, nanomedicine, etc.). All these applications require a rigorous selection of porous substrates and appropriate loading protocols with both organic and inorganic species, including both one-pot and post-functionalisation processes. A large number of materials with sensor properties and sophisticated drug delivery systems have been developed.. This line of work allowed the implementation of new characterization techniques at the University of Valencia such as the adsorption-desorption of N2 (in 2000) and more recently the SAXRS (2020) thanks to national projects that I led. The communication of the achievements has been reflected in: (1) 270 publications (252 included in WoS, 3 book chapters and 15 national publications), 6 reviews, (2) 89 national and 92 international congresses (7 invited and 1 Plenary Lecture) (3) 8 national and 5 international patents. This activity has been well valued both in the scientific field (h index = 51; 10075 citations; 40.0 citations / article; 83% Q1 during the last decade) and in the institutional sphere (6 research sexennial periods favourably evaluated by CNEAI). Most of the funds needed for this activity come from 65 national and regional projects, 38 as IP that I have led continuously since 1994 (10 over the last decade). This activity has contributed to the training of research staff (Directed PhD = 10, and I am currently co-director of 2 PhD). Professional career of PhD students. P. Burguete (CEPSA). V. Puchol (Jeanologia S L). A. Moragues (BC Fertilis), J. M. Morales (professor at the Valencia School of Medicine). C. Belenguer (Generalitat Valenciana). E. Pellicer (Professor secondary school). Collaborations with industries (2011-2025): IQE, Microbiotech SL, Asociación Valenciana de Agricultores, Aquactiva Solutions, Fertinagro, Sanifruit. Public Collaborations (2011-2025): Hospital la Fe, Hospital Clínico de Valencia.

Recent Research Projects

1. TITLE: Synthesis and Selected Applications of Novel Multifunctional Porous Nanomaterials and Nanocomposites. FUNDING ENTITY: Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. REFERENCE: PID2021-126304OB-C43. PI/ENTITY: P. Amorós, J. V. Ros/ICMUV-UV. DURATION: 2022-2024

2. TITLE: Transformation and Functionalization of Rice Hulls to Obtain Novel Silicon-Based Organic Fertilizers with Increased Nutrient Retention Capacity (ZEOFER-RICE). FUNDING ENTITY: EU, Ministry of Science and Innovation. REFERENCE: CPP2022-009855. (Public-Private Collaboration) PI/ENTITY: J. El Haskouri/ICMUV. DURATION FROM: 2023 UNTIL: 2026

3. TITLE: Development and validation of nanomaterials and sensors to promote the competitiveness of the agri-food sector. FINANCING ENTITY: EU, Ministry of Science and Innovation, Generalitat Valenciana. REFERENCE: AGROALNEXT/2022/065. PI/ENTITY: J. V. Ros, P. Amorós/UV-ICMUV. DURATION FROM: 2022 UNTIL: 2025

4. TITLE: Design and selected applications of multifunctional porous nanomaterials with improved porosity. FINANCING ENTITY: Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. REFERENCE: RTI2018-100910-B-C44. PI/ENTITY: P. Amorós, J. V. Ros/ICMUV-UV. DURATION FROM: 2019 UNTIL: 2021

5. TITLE: New applications in X-ray Diffraction Techniques of the Central Service for Support to Experimental Research (SCSIE). FUNDING ENTITY: Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. REFERENCE: EQC2018-005228-P. PI/ENTITY: P. Amorós/ICMUV. DURATION FROM: 2019. UNTIL: 2019

6. TITLE: Mesoporous and particulate solids for the design of theranostic materials. FUNDING ENTITY: Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. REFERENCE: MAT2015-64139-C04-02-R. PI/ENTITY: P. Amorós/ICMUV. DURATION FROM: 2016 UNTIL: 2018

7. TITLE: Mesoporous hybrid nanomaterials and composites for the design of sensor, controlled delivery, and remediation systems. FINANCING ENTITY: Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. REFERENCE: MAT2012-38429-C04-03. PI/ENTITY: P. Amorós / ICMUV. DURATION FROM: 2013 UNTIL: 2015

8. TITLE: Mesoporous and particulate nanomaterials for the design of sensor systems, remediation, and energy-related applications. FINANCING ENTITY: Ministry of Science and Technology. REFERENCE: MAT2009-14564-C04-04. PI/ENTITY: P. Amorós / ICMUV. DURATION FROM: 2010 UNTIL: 2012.

Teaching experience

Subjects taught during the last few years:

Materials Science- I, Degree in Chemical Engineering at ETSE

Chemistry Laboratory –II, Degree in Chemistry.

Miriam Beneito Cambra has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Valencia (UV) since 2023. She obtained her PhD in Chemistry from the UV in 2011, including a stay at the University of Vienna (Austria). Her doctoral thesis received the highest grade (“Excelente Cum Laude”) and the Extraordinary Doctorate Award (UV, 2013). She completed postdoctoral stays at the University of Jaén and the “École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris” (Paris, France). Her research career is characterized by an evolution from the initial development of separation and characterization methodologies in chromatography and capillary electrophoresis to the consolidation of advanced approaches based on LC-MS/HRMS, with special emphasis on the optimization of ambient and plasma ionization sources (DBDI, LTP) and nanoflow strategies (nLC). Her research is primarily focused on the multi-residue analysis of pesticides, drugs, and other compounds of interest in complex matrices, especially food and vegetable oils.

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[Biography, version in Valencian]

María Celia García Álvarez-Coque completed her Chemistry degree at Univ. Valencia in 1976, receiving Awards in both her undergraduate and PhD studies. She also received the National End of Studies Award in Chemistry and Cañada Blanch PhD Award. In 1977‒1980, she worked at Dep. Analytical Chemistry (Univ. Valencia) with a research grant from Dirección General de Universidades, and was Assistant Professor from 1977 to 1983. In 1983, she secured a permanent Professor position after successfully passing a national competitive examination held in Madrid. She then undertook a post-doctoral stay at the Univ. Florida (Gainesville, USA) in 1986-1987, supported by Generalitat Valenciana. She was promoted to Full Professor in June 1997 and became Emeritus Professor in September 2024.

Initially focusing on spectroscopy (fluorimetry, phosphorimetry, and thermal lens spectrometry), she later specialised in liquid chromatography. In 1992, she founded the FUSCHROM group (FUndamental Studies in CHROMatography, http://www.uv.es/fuschrom). Her expertise includes modelling retention behaviour and optimisation in chromatography, separation kinetics, secondary equilibria, design of novel separation strategies, and analytical method development for pharmaceutical, clinical, and food samples.

She has taught in the Chemistry and Pharmacy degrees, as well as in several Master, Doctorate and Postgraduate programs at Univ. Valencia, and in 1995 and 1998 in an Analytical Chemistry Master at Univ. Nacional Autónoma de León (Nicaragua). Since 1995, she has led 10 national research projects, and in 2016-2019 a PROMETEO Project funded by Generalitat Valenciana. In September 2024, the FUSHCHROM group received one of the 3 Consolidated Group grants in Chemical Science and Technology in the Valencian Community, funded by Generalitat Valenciana, with José Ramón Torres as main researcher.

She has supervised 30 PhD students (3 still ongoing), with 8 receiving Doctorate Awards, and one honoured with the International Massart Award in Chemometrics 2006 by the Belgian Society on Chemometrics; 3 of her PhD. students obtained a Marie Curie post-doctoral fellowship and 3 more a Ramón y Cajal contract. Thirteen of these students have held or currently hold professorial positions in several Spanish and foreign universities, and one is senior researcher in the CSIC; 3 PhD students and 2 collaborators have been promoted to Full Professors.

She has published 313 articles (two more have been submitted), 95% in international journals with at least 50% in the first quartile of the Journal Citation Report in the field of Analytical Chemistry (almost 25% in the first decile), and other 25% in the second quartile. Her published articles include 8 in Analytical Chemistry, 94 in Journal of Chromatography A, 30 in Analytica Chimica Acta, 13 in Analyst and Microchemical Journal, 11 in Talanta, 5 in Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry and Separation and Purification Reviews, 3 in Trends in Analytical Chemistry, and 2 in Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems; 27 are reviews or tutorial articles. She has also contributed to 24 book chapters (22 international), and co-authored the books Micellar Liquid Chromatography with Alain Berthod (Marcel Dekker), and Quimiometría with Guillermo Ramis (Síntesis). She frequently is invited to collaborate in international books, encyclopedias, and scientific journals.

Her contributions to editorial boards include Analytica Chimica Acta (2005-2007), Current Chromatography (2015-2020), Separation and Purification Reviews (since 2005), and Journal of Chromatography A (since 2006). Since 1980, she has presented 220 communications at 62 international symposia and 131 communications at 46 national symposia, including 39 oral presentations, 4 keynotes, and one tutorial at HPLC'2005 in Stockholm. She co-taught with José Ramón Torres a 6-hour course at HPLC'2013 in Amsterdam. Her career has garnered 6 awards and 4 finalist recognitions at symposia. She chaired the jury of the Miguel Valcárcel Awards in 2019 and 2022, granted by the Spanish Analytical Chemistry Society.

Her collaborations span diverse universities and companies, standing out particularly her work with Guillermo Ramis (Univ. Valencia), Elisabeth Bosch and Martí Rosés (Univ. Barcelona), Benjamín Monrabal (PolymerChar, Paterna, Valencia), James Winefordner (Univ. Florida), Alain Berthod (Univ. Lyon 1), Desiré Luc Massart (Vrije Univ. Brussel), Michael Abraham (Univ. College London), Peter Schoenmakers and Bob Pirok (Univ. Amsterdam), José Antonio Navarro (Novartis, Switzerland), and Sanka Atapattu (CANAM Bioreserach, Canada). She was granted with 6 consecutive six-year research periods (up to 2012) and 6 five-year teaching periods (up to 2007). In 2017, the VESTIGIUM Project (http://www.vestigium.es) ranked her among the top 100 scientists of the Valencian Community for the 21st-century.

Professor and researcher focused on the development of biosensors and pathogen detection systems, combining theoretical and experimental approaches to improve and optimize biosensing processes. His career includes research in physical chemistry and electrochemistry, collaboration with industry, and co-supervision of doctoral theses, with a strong emphasis on translating results into innovative technological solutions.

Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the Faculty of Chemistry. Graduate in Chemical Sciences and History and PhD in Chemistry from the Universitat de València.

In her research, she has collaborated with several research groups and currently belongs to the MAS group (Sustainable Analytical Methods) registered in the Registry of Research Structures of the University of Valencia. She has directed and participated in different competitive research projects, and is co-author of 68 articles in indexed journals, a national patent and 83 communications at conferences. She has five recognized six-year research degrees.

Regarding her teaching activity, she has taught subjects in several undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the Faculty of Chemistry, Physics, Pharmacy, Teaching and Social Sciences. She has also participated in two editions of the Master's degree in Analytical Chemistry at the Universidad Autónoma de León in Nicaragua and in several postgraduate and outreach courses. She has supervised three doctoral theses, and has been a tutor for 45 students in TFG, TFM, DEA, Bachelor's Theses and End-of-Career Projects. She has led several educational innovation projects and has been responsible for a teaching innovation group. She currently belongs to the consolidated teaching innovation group "Pedagogical Innovation in Sciences". She is the co-author of two teaching manuals and 32 communications at conferences and 10 articles related to teaching. She has six five-year teaching experience recognized and has obtained the highest qualification in the two periods evaluated by the DOCENTIA program.

She has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Spanish Conference of Deans of Chemistry and the Spanish Society of Spectroscopy. She has held several academic positions: delegate of the rector and director of the Environmental Safety, Health and Quality Service in the period 2002-2006, vice-dean of studies and academic organization of the Faculty of Chemistry between 2014 and 2018 and dean of the Faculty of Chemistry in the period 2018-2024.

She has participated in several Department, Faculty and University committees and has been part of the Central Boards of the Faculties of Pharmacy and Chemistry, the Governing Council of the University and the Senate of the Universitat de València.

Prof. Emilio Pardo Marín. PhD in Chemistry from the University of Valencia (UV), under the supervision of Prof. Francisco Lloret (2006), in the field of Molecular Magnetism. Subsequently, this training served as the foundation for the development of new examples of Multifunctional Materials during my postdoctoral stays (2008-2009) at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris, France). Since my return to the University of Valencia in 2010, I founded the research team MUPOMAT (www.mupomat.com), focusing on the development of new porous coordination polymers and their application in catalysis and environmental decontamination. As of October 2024, I am a Full Professor in the Department of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Valencia.

I am the co-author of 4 patents, 3 book chapters, and 157 scientific articles published in indexed international journals, which have been cited more than 9,000 times (with an average impact factor of 58.3), in the most prestigious journals in the fields of Chemistry (Nature Catalysis, Accounts of Chemical Research, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem., etc.) and Materials Science (Nature Materials, Advanced Materials, etc.), with more than 90% of them in the first quartile (Q1). Furthermore, part of this work has been featured on the covers of prestigious scientific journals (9 covers: Small, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Chemistry European Journal, Inorganic Chemistry, etc.), and a significant number of these articles have been classified as 'Hot' or 'VIP' (Very Important Papers), indicating their importance. In this regard, I have an h-index (Hirsch) value of 53 (Google Scholar, April 2024). I appear in the 'Essential Science Indicators' ranking at position 5133 worldwide in the field of Chemistry. Additionally, I have contributed more than 90 presentations at national and international scientific meetings (many of them oral contributions and invited lectures).

I have three recognized active research periods (sexenios) by the CNEAI. Finally, I have participated in a total of 32 R&D projects funded by private, regional, national, and international foundations, serving as the principal investigator in 9 of them. Notably, I was awarded a European project by the European Research Council (ERC Consolidator Grant) with a budget of €1,886,000.00.

José Ramón Torres Lapasió obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Valencia, where he was awarded the Doctorate Award in 1996. He subsequently undertook post-doctoral research at several national and international institutions. He held a faculty position at the University of Navarra and later joined the University of Valencia, where he has been a member of the Department of Analytical Chemistry since 2000. His teaching activity covers undergraduate, graduate and Master’s level courses in the Faculties of Chemistry and Pharmacy.

He was awarded a research contract within the first call of the Ramón y Cajal Programme (2001–2006), obtaining final I3 certification. In 2006, he secured a permanent position as Profesor Contratado Doctor and, following success in the National Habilitation examination, was appointed Profesor Titular de Universidad at the University of Valencia in 2007. He has supervised ten PhD theses, one of which received both an Extraordinary Doctorate Award and an international distinction in Chemometrics.

His research is focused on Chemometrics applied to chromatography, particularly on modelling, optimisation and signal processing for the analysis of complex samples. He is a founding member of the FUSCHROM research group at the University of Valencia and actively develops scientific software to support his research. His academic activity has been recognised with four consecutive six-year research periods (up to 2020) and four five-year teaching periods (up to 2021).

He has authored 131 peer-reviewed scientific articles, mainly published in first-quartile journals of the Journal Citation Reports in Analytical Chemistry, with approximately half in the first decile. His publications include articles in leading journals such as Analytical Chemistry, Journal of Chromatography A and Analytica Chimica Acta. He has also contributed 13 chapters to internationally published books and authored 8 review or tutorial articles, several by invitation. He regularly serves as a reviewer for high-impact scientific journals and has received “Top Reviewer” distinctions.

He has presented 187 scientific contributions at national and international conferences, including oral presentations and posters, and has received several awards and finalist distinctions. His research activity includes participation in multiple national and regional competitive projects, acting as principal investigator in several of them. He is currently the principal investigator of a consolidated research group project funded by the Generalitat Valenciana (2024).