Dr. José Marco Sanz, from the Blas Cabrera Institute of Physical Chemistry (IFQ) in Madrid, Spain, was recently at CEDENNA carrying out a series of activities and meetings as part of an international collaboration for the FONDECYT project 1201249 (Electronic properties of coordination compounds based on functionalized mixed-valence polyoxometalates coordinated to lanthanide ions), invited by Dr. Diego Venegas Yazigi, who leads the center’s Nanostructure Chemistry Line.
For almost a month, Dr. Marco Sanz immersed himself in scientific discussions with Dr. Venegas and held working meetings with Dr. Daniela Alburquenque, a member of the Nanomagnetism group led by CEDENNA’s current executive director, Dr. Juan Escrig. It is worth noting that the Spanish researcher has maintained a fruitful collaboration with various research groups in Chile for several years. This has resulted in the co-authorship of numerous scientific articles with Chilean groups and, in particular, has forged a special scientific relationship with CEDENNA’s teams.
Dr. Marco obtained his degree in Physical Sciences from the University of Zaragoza in 1984 and, in 1989, his doctorate from the Autonomous University of Madrid. In the two years following his doctorate, he completed postdoctoral stays at the universities of Mainz (Germany) and Birmingham (United Kingdom).
“I am a spectroscopist working in different areas where Physics, Chemistry and Materials Science merge. Over the years I have collaborated with many groups in Spain, Europe and Latin America,” he says in his profile on the IFQ website.
