Postdoctoral Researchers
Maria Medel Gonzalez
Email: mmedel@cipf.es
Maria Medel Gonzalez completed her PhD at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, where she focused on molecular materials, including synthesising and characterising ruthenium complexes, porphyrins, and phthalocyanines. She also collaborated with the University of Crete on peptide-coupled phthalocyanines, studying their properties and self-assembly behaviour. Subsequently, she worked on a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-funded proteomics project at GSK, identifying protein targets for tuberculosis and malaria using advanced structural techniques. Later, she contributed to the European CosmoPHOS-nano project, developing nanotechnology-enabled systems for imaging and treating atherosclerotic heart disease. She currently forms part of the Polymer Therapeutics Lab at the Principe Felipe Research Center, focusing on gene delivery vectors to treat diseases.
Zaida María Abad Jiménez
Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
Email: zmabad@cipf.es
Zaida María Abad Jiménez obtained her degree in Nursing and Master's degree in Physiology from the University of Valencia in 2017. After defending her Master's thesis, she joined the "Translational Research in Nutrition and Metabolism" group at FISABIO. During her predoctoral stage, she made a scientific stay at the University Hospital of Maastricht to evaluate the effect of diet on the cardiovascular system and vasomotion in patients with obesity. Her doctoral thesis is entitled "Study of the effect of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery on the molecular mechanisms associated with the pathophysiology of obesity" and was defended in December 2022 as part of the Ph.D. program in Physiology at the University of Valencia (outstanding, Cum Laude distinction, with international mention). She is a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory of Polymers Therapeutic, thanks to a competitive Juan de la Cierva (JDC2022-048668-I) contract. Her project focuses on the role of adipose tissue in women with obesity and triple negative breast cancer.
Carol Ganivet
Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
Email: carolina.ganivet@gmail.com
Carol Ganivet (ORCID: 0000-0002-4738-6460) obtained her B. Sc. degree in Chemistry at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, where she subsequently earned her Master’s degree in Organic Chemistry. Then, she received her PhD at the same university (2015) under the supervision of Prof. Tomás Torres and Dr Gema de la Torre, where she worked on novel single-molecule magnets and photosensitizers for molecular photovoltaics based on customized phthalocyanines. She moved to Texas (USA) as a postdoctoral fellow under the supervision of Prof. Luis Echegoyen, exploring new materials for their application in perovskite solar cells. After 2 years abroad, in 2018, she joined Dr Carlos Martí-Gastaldo at Instituto de Ciencia Molecular, where she stayed until 2022, working as a postdoctoral fellow for an ERC Starting grant project based on the synthesis of small molecules for the development of new metal-organic frameworks. That same year, she moved to Castellón to Prof. Eduardo Peris’ laboratory at Universidad Jaume I. Currently, she is working at the Laboratory of Polymer Therapeutics. She specializes in designing and developing new biomaterials, combining her extensive experience in multi-step total synthesis and knowledge of Schlenk line techniques.