Paula de Mendoza, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Antonio M. Echavarren, defended her PhD Thesis entitled Design and Synthesis of New Polyaromatic Scaffolds for Nano-Scale Applications (assigned to the Analytical Chemistry and Organic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly at the ICIQ auditorium.

The members of her evaluation committee were: Prof. Enrique Guitian (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela), Prof. Pablo Espinet (Universidad de Valladolid), Prof. Maribel Matheu (Universitat Rovira i Virgili), Prof. Roberto Otero (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) and Prof. David Brian Amabilino (Institut de Ciències dels Materials de Barcelona).