Group Members
Juan Carlos López
Juan Carlos López is Full Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Valladolid. He received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry from the University of Valladolid. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the CNR Bologna, Italy. As a scientific visitor he has worked at the Universities of Bologna (Italy), Lille (France), Kiel (Germany) and recently at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter.
Group Leader (+34) 983 18-5891
juancarlos.lopeza@uva.es
ORCID:
0000-0003-1028-779X
Susana Blanco
Susana Blanco is Full Professor in Physical Chemistry at University of Valladolid. She obtained her B.Sc. in Chemistry and her Ph.D., under the supervision of Prof. J.C. López and J.L. Alonso, at the University of Valladolid. She hold a postdoctoral position at Oxford University, and got different grants to research as scientific visitor in the spectroscopy laboratories of Bologna University and Newcastle University, among others.
Group Leader
(+34) 983 42-3272
susana.blanco@uva.es
ORCID:
0000-0002-1196-3844
Pablo Pinacho
Pablo Pinacho is Associate Professor at Universidad de Valladolid. He got a B.Sc, M.Sc., and PhD in Chemistry at Universidad de Valladolid. The topic of his thesis, directed by Prof. S. Blanco and Prof. J. C. López, was the study of the structure and interactions of small microsolvated molecules using rotational spectroscopy. He has held grants as the Alexander von Humboldt, or the Maria Zambrano, for postdoctoral research in the groups of Prof. M. Schnell in Hamburg, and the group of Dr. Emilio J. Cocinero at Universidad del País Vasco, respectively.
Associate Professor
(+34) 983 18-5030
pablo.pinacho@uva.es
ORCID:
0000-0002-6369-4631
Andrés Verde
Andrés completed his B.Sc. degree in Chemistry from Universidad de Valladolid. He joined our group during his Masters degree, developping his Master project titled: “Structural study of m-anisaldehyde and its water complexes”. He has also obtained the “Consejo Social” grant as a research colaborator in the departament. Currently, he is developing its Ph.D. in the GIER group with a predoctoral contract of UVa. In 2023, he made a short visit at King’s College London in the Prof. Maria E. Sanz group studing microsolvation of different lactones.
Ph.D. Student (+34) 983 42-3204
andres.verde@alumnos.uva.es
ORCID:
0000-0002-3595-3544
Roger Castillo
Roger has completed his B.Sc. degree in Chemistry at the Central de Las Villas University (UCLV), Cuba, in 2020, with the highest grade and differents awards: “Titulo de Oro” and “Premio Mérito Ciéntifico”. He has two years of experience as analitical chemistry in the “Laboratorio de materiales de construcción” in CIDEM (Cuba), 5 years as assistant professor in UCLV.
In the 2022-23, he was a student of the Master “Técnicas Avanzadas en Química: Análisis y Control de Calidad Químicos” at the University of Valladolid thanks to a grant “Programa IberoAmerica + Asia 2022-23; Banco Santander – UVa”. He developped his Master project under the supervision of J.C. López and S. Blanco in the study of the rotational spectrum of 3-methoxy-cinnamic acid. In 2023-24, he completed the interuniversity Master’s program in ‘New Materials’ at the University of Cantabria (Spain).
He is currently a PhD student at the University of Valladolid with a UVa scholarship.
PhD student (+34) 983 42-3204
roger.castillo22@estudiantes.uva.es
rogercastillodelgado@gmail.com
ORCID: 0009-0000-1364-1403
Alberto Macario
Alberto Macario received his B.Sc. degree in Chemistry from Universidad de Valladolid. He obtained his Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Juan Carlos López and Prof. Susana Blanco in 2019 with a predoctoral fellow at Universidad de Valladolid, specializing in the determination of the molecular structure of biological interest molecules and its molecular complexes by means of rotational spectroscopy. During his Ph.D. he made a short visit at the University of Alberta (with Prof. Y. Xu and Prof. W. Jäger). After the obtention of his Ph.D. he continued as a postdoc in the RSRG group, doing also a short visit as junior researcher at the laboratory of Prof. Melanie Schnell in Hamburg. In 2022, he started to work as a postdoc in the Institut de Physique de Rennes, working in the CRESUCHIRP group of Prof. Ian Sims. In 2023 he was awarded with a MSCA Bienvenüe fellowship there, where he studied the kinetics of low temperature gas phase reactions of interstellar and/or atmospheric relevance.
He currently holds a maître de conférences position at the University of Paris 10, France.
Maître de Confèrence
alberto.macario@uva.es
ORCID:
0000-0002-3014-7674
Henar Domínguez
Henar has completed his B.Sc. degree in Chemistry at the Univerity of Valladolid. She carried out her TFG project in GIER group with the “Analisis conformacional del Salbutamol” reseach.
In 2024, she obtained her Master’s degree in ‘Técnicas Avanzadas en Química: Análisis y Control de Calidad Químicos’ from the University of Valladolid, where she developed her Master’s project under the supervision of S. Blanco and J.C. López. Her project focused on determining the structure of pentafluorotoluene using its rotational spectra for all carbon isotopologues.
Chemistry Master henar.dominguez@estudiantes.uva.es
Fernando González
Fernando has completed his Masters degree in our group. He obtained his B.Sc. degree in Chemistry from Universidad de Valladolid, doing his bachelor project titled: “Microwave spectrum of aromatic compounds: structural determination of 4-ethylphenol” with us. In his Masters degree he continued working in our group, finishing his previous research and developing his Master project entitled: “Rotational spectrum of microsolvated complexes of 4-ethylphenol”.
Chemistry Master
fernando.gonzalez.merino@alumnos.uva.es
