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).
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Dr. Paula de Mendoza with her supervisor, Prof. Antonio M. Echavarren,
and her research group mates at the end of the PhD thesis defence