Polymeric Materials

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She belongs to the Spanish National Research Council (ICTP-CSIC) and is a leader of the Macromolecular Engineering Group (MacroEng). She is a co-author of ca. 160 articles and several book chapters and a co-editor of a book (Royal Society of Chemistry). She has supervised eight PhD theses and some minor theses. She has served as an international advisory board member of European Polymer Journal (Elsevier) and now is an editor member of International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Material Science (MDPI) and International Journal of Polymer Science (Hindawi). Her research interests include block copolymers, glycopolymers, antimicrobial and antifouling polymers, sustainable materials, and recycling. She is member of the Interdisciplinary Platform for Sustainable Plastics towards a Circular Economy (SusPlast-CSIC). AlexandraMu ñoz-Bonilla completed her PhD in 2006 at the Institute of Polymer Science and Technology (ICTP-CSIC), in the area of controlled radical polymerization. During her PhD studies, she also held a one-year position at the University of Warwick, UK, as a Marie Curie visiting research student. Afterwards, she carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Bordeaux (France) in the field of polymer surfaces and interfaces and held a second postdoctoral position at the Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) in the field of colloidal systems. Currently, she is a tenured scientist at the ICTP-CSIC, having published nearly 90 articles and several book chapters and co-edited a RSC book. Now, she serves as editor for Coatings (MDPI) and Advances in Polymer Technology (Hindawi/Wiley). Her main research interests are the development of antimicrobial materials and bio-based and biodegradable polymeric systems, also participating in SusPlast-CSIC advancement. Coro Echeverria received her PhD in applied chemistry and polymeric materials in 2011 at the University of the Basque Country (EHU, Spain). Her main research area is in the field of polymeric materials, its characterization, and applications, and her scientific interest is the study and development of multifunctional stimuli-responsive polymeric systems. During her postdoctoral period, 2013-2017, she worked at the New University of Lisbon (UNL) and CENIMAT on the project "Cellulose in Motion", which focused on the development of bio-based actuators from cellulosic liquid crystalline systems with an emphasis on the structure-properties relationship and flow behavior. Since 2018, she has been a Juan de la Cierva researcher at ICTP-CSIC. Her research is devoted to the development of multifunctional stimuli-responsive bio-based polymer systems with antimicrobial properties, aligned with the objectives of SusPlast-CSIC. Agueda Sonseca obtained her PhD in 2015 at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, supported by a FPU predoctoral fellowship in the field of biodegradable nanocomposites with shape memory properties and possible biomedical applications. Afterwards, she was hired as a postdoctoral researcher in the Division of Biomaterials an...