Members

Group Leader - Current Members - Previous Members - Collaborators

Group leader

Arben Merkoçi

Job title:
ICREA Research Professor and Group Leader
Phone:
+34 93 7374604
E-mail:
arben.merkoci@icn2.cat

Group administrator

Anna Puig Font

Job title:
Group Project Manager & Administrator
Phone:
+34 93 7374609
E-mail:
anna.puig@icn2.cat

Postdoctoral researchers

Ruslán Alvarez

Job title:
Senior Postdoctoral Researcher
Phone:
+34 937 374613
E-mail:
ruslan.alvarez@icn2.cat
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Andrew Piper

Job title:
Postdoctoral Researcher
Phone:
+34 937374613
E-mail:
andrew.piper@icn2.cat
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Giulio Rosati

Job title:
Senior Postdoctoral Researcher
Phone:
+34 937 374610
E-mail:
giulio.rosati@icn2.cat
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Marianna Rossetti

Job title:
Senior Postdoctoral Researcher
Phone:
+34 937374613
E-mail:
marianna.rossetti@icn2.cat
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Daniel Quesada

Job title:
Postdoctoral Researcher
Phone:
+34 937374610
E-mail:
daniel.quesada@icn2.cat

PhD students

Vernalyn Abarintos Rentino

Job title:
PhD Student
Phone:
+34 937374606
E-mail:
vernalyn.abarintos@icn2.cat

Andy Jesus Bruno Darder

Job title:
PhD Student
Phone:
+34 937374606
E-mail:
andy.bruno@icn2.cat

Gabriel Maroli

Job title:
PhD Student
Phone:
+34 937374651
E-mail:
gabriel.maroli@icn2.cat

Nerea De Mariscal Molina

Job title:
PhD Student
Phone:
+34 937374606
E-mail:
nerea.mariscal@icn2.cat

Massimo Urban

Job title:
PhD Student
Phone:
+34 937374606
E-mail:
massimo.urban@icn2.cat

Wei Shanshan

Job title:
Doctoral Student (CSC)
Phone:
+34 937374606
E-mail:
wei.shanshan@icn2.cat

DUYGU BEDUK

Job title:
Doctoral Student FPI 2022
Phone:
+34 937374651
E-mail:
duygu.beduk@icn2.cat

LINHAN LI

Job title:
Fellowship Doctoral Student
Phone:
+34 937374606
E-mail:
linhan.li@icn2.cat

Visiting researchers & students

Angela Carota

Job title:
PhD Student
Phone:
E-mail:
angela.carota@icn2.cat

Cristian Tornador Antolin

Job title:
PhD Student
Phone:
+34 937374651
E-mail:
cristian.tornador@icn2.cat

Zaheer Ud Din Babar

Job title:
PhD Student
Phone:
E-mail:
zaheer.babar@icn2.cat

RENÊ SANTOS DE AMORIM

Job title:
Visiting Doctoral Student
Phone:
E-mail:
rene.santos@icn2.cat

VALENTINA IACONO

Job title:
Visiting Doctoral Student
Phone:
E-mail:
valentina.iacono@icn2.cat

MARIA CHECA RIDAO

Job title:
Visiting Degree Student
Phone:
E-mail:
maria.checa@icn2.cat

ADRIÀ LÓPEZ PONTANILLA

Job title:
Visiting TFG Student
Phone:
E-mail:
adria.lopez@icn2.cat

PAULA LARA MARTÍNEZ

Job title:
Visiting Master Student
Phone:
E-mail:
paula.lara@icn2.cat

Previous members

  1. José Alfonso Marrugo (PhD Student, Colombia, 2019-2024)
  2. Martina Mercurio (PhD Student, Italy, 2023)
  3. Matheus Bonando, (PhD Student, Brazil, 2023)
  4. Gianluca Minervini, (PhD Student, Italy, 2023)
  5. Enric Calucho, (PhD Student, Spain, 2018-2023)
  6. Celia Fuentes, (PhD Student, Spain, 2019-2023)
  7. Patricia Batista Deroco, (Postdoctoral Researcher, Brazil, 2022-2023)
  8. Liming Hu, (PhD Student, China, 2019-2023)
  9. Chiara Capolungo, (PhD Student, Italy, 2023)
  10. Daniele Picicci, (PhD Student, Italy, 2023)
  11. Ana Rubio Monterde, (PhD Student, Spain, 2019-2023)
  12. Abigail Saddler, (Undergraduate Student, USA, 2023)
  13. José Lopez, (Undergraduate Student, USA, 2023)
  14. Daniel Cardoso, (PhD Student, Potugal, 2023)
  15. Sinan Uzunçar, (Postdoctoral Researcher, Turkey, 2022-2023)
  16. Gustavo Dalkiranis, (Postdoctoral Researcher, Brazil, 2022-2023)
  17. Danilo Echeverri, (PhD Student, Colombia, 2022)
  18. Kazim Kose, (Professor, Turkey, 2022)
  19. Manasi Krishnakumar, (Undergraduate Student, USA, 2022)
  20. Robert Kobrin, (Undergraduate Student, USA, 2022)
  21. Tatchanun Ngamdee, (PhD Student, Thailand, 2022)
  22. Mayla Metitiero, (PhD Master student, Italy, 2022)
  23. Chiara Giliberti, (PhD Student, Italy, 2022)
  24. Emilia Renzi, (PhD Student, Italy, 2022)
  25. Eleonora Olivato, (PhD Student, Italy, 2021)
  26. Anna Gratacós, (PhD Student, Spain, 2021)
  27. Chawin Srisomwat, (PhD Student, Thailand, 2022)
  28. Lei Zhao, (PhD Student, China, 2018-2022)
  29. Qiuyue Yang, (PhD Student, China, 2018-2022)
  30. Andrea Bonini, (Italy, PhD Student, 2020)
  31. Grégoire Le Brun, (PhD Student, Belgium, 2020)
  32. Flavio Della Pelle, (Postdoctoral Researcher, Italy, 2021)
  33. Qurat-ul-ain Bukhari, (PhD Student, Italy, 2021)
  34. Cecília de Carvalho Castro e Silva, (Professor, Brazil, 2019-2021)
  35. Andrea Idilli, (Postdoctoral Researcher, Italy, 2019-2021)
  36. Claudio Parolo (Postdoctoral Researcher, Italy, 2019-2021)
  37. Jashari Granit (PhD Student, Czech Republic, 2021)
  38. Lourdes Rivas (Postdoctoral Researcher, Venezuela, 2019-2020)
  39. Leyla Karadurmus (PhD Student, Turkey, 2019-2020)
  40. Emily Nguyen, (Postdoctoral Researcher, Australia, 2018-2020)
  41. Alfred Domi, (Master Student, Italy, 2019)
  42. José Francisco Bergua Canudo (PhD Student, Spain, 2016-2020)
  43. Amadeo Sena Torralba, (PhD Student, Spain, 2017-2020)
  44. Annalisa Scroccarello, (PhD Student, Italy, 2020)
  45. Irisi Daka, (Student, United Kingdom, 2019-2020)
  46. Claudia Pereira (PhD Student, Portugal, 2019-2020)
  47. José Flauzino, (PhD Student, Brazil, 2019-2020)
  48. Evdokiya Belina, (PhD Student, Bulgaria, 2019-2020)
  49. Volkan Safran, (PhD Student, Turkey, 2019-2020)
  50. David Panáček, (PhD Student, Czech Republic, 2019-2020)
  51. Ryosuke Fujii, (PhD Student, Japan, 2019-2020)
  52. Oğuz Çakir, (Postdoctoral Researcher, Turkey, 2019)
  53. Duy Ba Ngo, (PhD Student, Vietnam & Thailand, 2019)
  54. Miguel Ángel Aroca, (PhD Student, Colombia, 2019)
  55. Satish Kumar, (Postdoctoral Researcher, India, 2019)
  56. Yang Liu, (PhD Student, Switzerland, 2019)
  57. Mohga Khater, (PhD Student, Egypt, 2015-2019)
  58. Bhawna Nagar, (PhD Student, India, 2015-2019)
  59. Stefano Cinti, (Postdoctoral Researcher, Italy, 2018-2019)
  60. Marta Sanz, (PhD Student, Spain, 2018-2019)
  61. Marc Balsells, (Laboratory Technician, Spain, 2016-2019)
  62. Jiri Kudr, (Postdoctoral Researcher, Czech Republic, 2018-2019)
  63. Saba Ranjbar, (PhD Student, Iran, 2018-2019)
  64. Mohammad Amin Farahmand Nejad, (PhD Student, Iran, 2018)
  65. Xin Yi Wong, (PhD Student, Malaysia 2018)
  66. Caterina Giacomelli, (Master Student, Italy 2018)
  67. Lorenzo Russo, (PhD Student, Italy 2015-2019)
  68. Carmen Martínez-Domingo, (PhD Student, Spain 2015-2019)
  69. Niloufar Amin, (PhD Student, Iran 2018)
  70. Karla de la Cruz Morales, (Master Student, Mexico 2018)
  71. Aleksandra Pollap, (PhD Student, Poland 2018)
  72. Anna Testolin, (PhD Student, Italy 2018)
  73. Daniel Quesada, (PhD Student, Spain 2012-2018)
  74. Somayeh Alashaini, (MSc Student, Iran 2018)
  75. Hamed Golmohammadi, (Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, Iran 2018)
  76. Tina Naghdi, (Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, Iran 2018)
  77. Abdel-Rahim Hassan, (Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, Egypt 2018)
  78. Carla González Soliño, (PhD Student, UK 2017-2018)
  79. Bernardo Patella, (PhD Student, Italy 2017-2018)
  80. Alexander Müller, (MSc Student, Germany 2017-2018)
  81. Marc Botifoll, (BSc Student, Spain 2017-2018)
  82. Alfredo de la Escosura Muñiz, (Postdoctoral Researcher, Spain 2006-2017)
  83. Yakoh Abdulhadee, (PhD Student, Thailand 2017)
  84. Maria Maddalena Calabretta, (PhD Student, Italy 2017)
  85. Alejandro Zamora, (PhD Student, Spain 2012-2017 )
  86. Andrzej Chalupniak, (PhD Student, Poland 2014-2017)
  87. Sonia Miani, (BSc Student, Spain 2017)
  88. Andrea Martos, (BSc Student, Spain 2017)
  89. Adrià Cladera, (BSc Student, Spain 2017)
  90. Javier Romero, (BSc Student, Spain 2017)
  91. Alba Cañamero, (BSc Student, Spain 2017)
  92. Georgina Alarcon, (Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, Mexico 2017)
  93. Luz Agueda Pérez Toma, (Visiting Master Student, Peru 2016-2017)
  94. Juan Leva Bueno, (MSc Student, Spain 2016-2017)
  95. Denise Capoferri, (visiting PhD Student, Italy 2017)
  96. Petr Jakuvec, (visiting Postdoctoral researcher, Czech Republic 2017)
  97. Nopchulee Cheeveevatanagool, (visiting PhD Student, Thailand 2016-2017)
  98. Jie Liu, (visiting PhD student, China 2015-2017)
  99. Abdel-Rahim Hassan, (Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, Egypt 2016-2017)
  100. Pablo Guardia Giros, (SO Postdoctoral Researcher, Spain 2016-2017)
  101. Margherita Montanari (Visiting Master Student, Italy, 2016)
  102. Marialuisa Siepi (Visiting PhD student, Italy, 2016)
  103. Christian Vila Parrondo (Undergraduate Student, Spain, 2015-2016)
  104. Aida Montserrat Pagès ( Master Student, Spain, 2015-2016)
  105. Héctor Yáñez Tienda (Master Student, Spain, 2015-2016)
  106. Dalia Mohamed Ali Ragab Elmasry (Visiting Post Doctoral Researcher, Egypt, 2015-2016)
  107. Monica Cosntantini (Visiting PhD student, Italy, 2016)
  108. Luis Miguel Baptista Pires (PhD in UAB, Portugal, 2012-2016)
  109. Jahir Orozco Holguín (Post Doctoral Researcher, Colombia, 2015-2016)
  110. Edén Morales Narváez (Post Doctoral Researcher, Mexico, 2010-2016)
  111. Irene Alvarez Lasarte (Technician, Spain, 2014-2016)
  112. Luiza Mercante (Visiting Postdoctoral researcher, Brazil, 2015-2016)
  113. Recep Üzek (Visiting PhD Student, Ankara, Turkey, 2015-2016)
  114. Esma Sari (Visiting PhD Student, Ankara, Turkey, 2015-2016)
  115. Sandrine Miserere (Postdoctoral researcher, 2010-2015)
  116. Helena Montón (PhD in UAB, Spain, 2010-2015)
  117. Flavio Pino (PhD in UAB, Spain, 2012-2015)
  118. Alex Chamorro Garcia (PhD in UAB, Spain, 2012-2015)
  119. Daniel Herea (Visitor Postdoctoral Researcher, Institutul Naţional de Cercetare-Dezvoltare pentru Fizică Tehnică, Jassy, Romania, 2015)
  120. María Ángeles Crespo Cuadrado (Undergraduate Student, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, 2014-2015)
  121. Ichrak Slama (Visitor PhD student, 2014-2015)
  122. Abdelatif Ait Lahcen (Visitor PhD student, Universite Hassan II de Casablanca, 2014-2015)
  123. Héctor Yáñez Tienda (Undergraduate Student, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, 2014-2015)
  124. Hoda Heli (Visitor PhD student, 2014-2015)
  125. Roberto Pol (Master Student, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, 2015)
  126. Wiyogo Prio Wicaksono (Visitor PhD student, 2014-2015)
  127. Marta Batet (Undergraduate Student, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, 2015)
  128. David Forns (Undergraduate Student, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, 2015)
  129. Victor Mas (Master Student, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, 2015)
  130. Veronika Dvorakova (Visitor PhD student, Univerzita Pardubice, Czech Republic, 2015)
  131. Fabio Caetano (Visitor PhD student, Brazil, 2014-2015)
  132. Oana Dragos (Visitor Postdoctoral Researcher, Institutul Naţional de Cercetare-Dezvoltare pentru Fizică Tehnică, Jassy, Romania, 2015)
  133. Erhan Zor (Visitor PhD student, Selçuk Üniversitesi, Turkey, 2014-2015)
  134. Lívia Flório Sgobbi (Visitor PhD student, Instituto de Química de São Carlos, Brazil, 2014-2015)
    Dr. Lourdes Rivas (PhD in UAB, Spain, 2014)
  135. Jarinya Sittiwong (Visitor PhD student, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 2014)
  136. Hongzhen Peng (Visitor PhD student, Nangchang University, Shangai China, 2014)
  137. Hamed Golmohammadi (Visitor PhD student, Iran, 2014)
  138. Tina Naghdi (Visitor PhD student, Iran, 2014)
  139. Miquel Cadevall (PhD in UAB, Spain, 2014)
  140. Natalia Chamorro Garcia (Master Student, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, 2013-2014)
  141. Dun-Wein Cheng (Visitor PhD student, 2014)
  142. Alfredo Maria Gravagnuolo (Visitor PhD student, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy, 2014)
  143. Carmen Mayorga Martinez (Postdoctoral researcher, 2010-2014)
  144. Marisol Espinoza Castañeda (Postdoctoral researcher, UAM Azcapotzalco, Mexico, 2009-2014)
  145. Alessandra Baiocco (Visitor student, Università Degli Studi di Roma «Tor Vergata», Italy, 2014)
  146. Giulia Pecchielan (Visitor PhD student, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italy, 2014)
  147. Everson Thiago Santos Grôncio da Silva (Visitor PhD student, Universidad Estatal de Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brasil) 2013 and 2014.
  148. Loubna el Harrad (Visitor PhD Student, Université Hassan II (FTSM), Mohammedia , Morocco ) 2014.
  149. Houda Gaigi (Visitor PhD Student. University of Science Tunis El-Manar, Tunisia).
  150. Amal Rabti (Visitor Student, University of Science Tunis El-Manar, Tunisia ). and 2014.
  151. Charlene Regina Santos Matos ( Visitor PhD student, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Brasil).
  152. Jędrzej Malec (Undergraduate student, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)
  153. Abdel Monem Mars (Visitor PhD Student, University of Science Tunis El-Manar, Tunisia ). 2012, 2013 and 2014.
  154. Wissem Argoubi (Visitor PhD Student, University of Science Tunis El-Manar, Tunisia ). 2014.
  155. Mariana Medina (Postdoctoral researcher, Institute for Integrative Nanosciences (IIN), Dresden, Germany). 2009-2013.
  156. Sevinç Kurbanoğlu (Visitor PhD student, Ankara University, Turkey).
  157. Gisele Elias Nunes (Visitor PhD student, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, UFSC, Florianopolis, Brasil).
  158. Ali Fattahhesari (Visitor PhD student, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran). 2013.
  159. Maria Guix Noguera (Postdoctoral researcher, Institute for Integrative Nanosciences (IIN), Dresden, Germany). 2009-2013.
  160. Adaris López Marzo (Postdoctoral researcher). 2010-2013.
  161. Yuki Honda (Visitor student, Keio University, Japan). 2013.
  162. Jihane Mandli (Visitor Student, Universite Hassan II Mohammadia, Casablanca, Morocco). 2013.
  163. Serdar Sanli (Visitor Student, T.C. Ordu Üniveristesi, Ordu, Turkey). 2013.
  164. Lenka Hlavata (PhD Student. Slovak Technical Univerzity, Slovakia). 2012 and 2013.
  165. Anna Fomicheva (Student, Autonomous University of Barcelona UAB, Spain). 2011-2013.
  166. Abdel-Rahim Hussein Abdel-Azeem Hassan (Visitor postdoctoral researcher, Beni-Suef University, Egypt). 2012-2013.
  167. Deniz Bas (Assistant Professor, Çankiri Karatekin University, Turkey). 2012.
  168. Marisa Maltez da Costa (Postdoctoral researcher). 2008-2012.
  169. Ruslán Raulievich Alvarez Diduk (PhD Student. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (unidad Iztapalapa), Mexico). 2012.
  170. Dina Katz (Visitor Student, University of California, San Diego, California, USA). 2012.
  171. Erika Rodriguez Sevilla (PhD Student, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Iztapalapa, México ). 2012.
  172. Gemma Aragay Esteve (Postdoctoral researcher. Institut Català d’Investigació Química). 2007-2012.
  173. Andrè Santiago Alfonso (Universidad Federal de San Carlos, Brazil). 2011.
  174. Laura Maria Zanoli (PhD Student, University of Catania, Italy). 2011.
  175. Tiziana Placido (PhD Student. IPCF-CNR, Bari, Italy). 2010.
  176. Wilanee Chunglok (PhD Student. King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi KMUTT, Thailand). 2010.
  177. Welter Cantanhêde (Professor. Universidade Federal do Piauí, Brasil). 2009-2010.
  178. Serdar Çevik (Muğla University, Turkey). 2010.
  179. Nicholas Kleovoulou (Student. Cranfield University, UK). 2010.
  180. Maëlle Perfezou (Student. Université de Technology de Compiègne, France). 2010.
  181. Sergio Marín Mancebo (Post-doctoral Researcher). 2004-2009.
  182. Adriano Ambrosi (Post-doctoral Researcher. Nanyang Assistant Professor. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore). 2007-2009.
  183. Josefina Pons (Professor. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain).
  184. Federico Airò (Student. Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy). 2008-2009.
  185. Anne Legendre (PhD Student. University College London, UK). 2009
  186. Pinar Kara (from Turkey; Currently: Assistant Professor. Ege Üniversitesi, Turkey). 2009.
  187. Melike Sahin (PhD Student. Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey). 2008-2009.
  188. Georgina Alarcón (Invited Professor. Researcher at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco, México, D. F., Mexico). 2009.
  189. Maria Teresa Castañeda (Research Professor. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco, México, D. F., Mexico). 2004-2008.
  190. Ülkü Kirgöz (Associate Professor. Muğla University, Turkey). 2004 and 2008.
  191. Humberto Takeda (PhD Student. Universidade Federal de San Carlos, Brasil). 2007.
  192. Patrizia Moretti (Student. Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy). 2006.
  193. Luiz Humberto Marcolino-Junior (Associate Professor. Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil). 2005-2006.
  194. Majlinda Vasjari ( Associate Professor. University of Tirana, Albania). 2005.
  195. Martin Pumera (Nanyang Assistant Professor. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore). 2004.


Collaborators

Salvador Alegret. Grup de Sensors i Biosensors . Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Barcelona. Spain.

Fernando Domínguez. Unidad de Medicina Molecular . Fundación Pública Galega de Medicina Genómica. Spain.

Ramón Eritja. Institut de Biologia Molecular de Barcelona-CSIC . Department de Biologia Estructural. Barcelona. Spain.

Carme Nogués. Àrea de Biologia Biologia Cel·lular. Department de Biologia Cel·lular. de Fisiologia i d’Immunologia . Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Barcelona. Spain.

Josep Ros i Josefina Pons. Àrea de Quimica Inorgànica .Department de Química. Universidad Autònoma de Barcelona. Barcelona. Spain.

Flavio Maran. Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università di Padova. Italy.

Yasuaki Einaga. Keio University,  Japan.

Itamar Willner, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.

Joseph Wang, University California San Diego, San Diego, USA.

Carmen de Torres, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu., Barcelona, Spain.

Lluís Marsal, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain.

Maria Lucia Curri, Institute for Physical and Chemical Processes, Italian National Council Institute for Physical and Chemical Processes, Bari Division, Italy.

Diane Blake, University of Tulane, USA.

Joan Montaner, Hospital Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain.

Alberto Escarpa, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain.

Noureddine Raouafi, Université Tunis El-Manar ,Tunis.

Dr. Nikos Cehagias, Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia, Bellaterra, Spain.

VETGENOMICS, Bellaterra, Spain.

Fluigent, Paris, France.

Nanotargeting & Nanonica, Barcelona, Spain.

Dr. Laetitia Philippe, EMPA company, Thun, Switzerland.