Rovira Angulo Concepció

Biography

Prof. Concepció Rovira is Research Professor at the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB) of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) and at Ciber-BBN. She received the Ph.D in Chemistry from  the Barcelona University working  in the area of organic radicals. She carried out postdoctoral research at Johns Hopkins University (Maryland, USA)  with Prof. D. O. Cowan in the area of organic conductors. Back in Europe, she joined the CSIC as a postdoctoral fellow and in 1987 became Tenured Scientist there. In 1991 She joined the new Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona. where she develop an interdisciplinar research on functionsl molecular materials and molecular nanoscience . Part of the research is performed in collaboration with different groups inside the frameworks of European and International projects, and has lead to more than 340 publications in SCI journals, 15 patents, 1 edited book and 21 book chapters.

Research Interest

My research interest focuses on molecular functional materials and molecular nanoscience and in particular in the fields of molecular electronics and spintronics, crystal engineering, supramolecular self-assembling, electron-transfer processes and molecular magnetism with emphasis in the basic and applied aspects. Research efforts also aimed towards the development of new processing methods for structuring functional molecular materials on surfaces. All these lines of research are eminently interdisciplinary, since they go from the design and organic synthesis of the functional molecules to the material preparation and the device fabrication and characterization.