Prof. Dr. Jesús Santamaría RAMIRO H-Index: 77
University of Zaragoza & Nanoscience and Materials Institute of Aragon (INMA), Spain, EU
Positions: Professor of Chemical Engineering and Exobiopharma Chair of Nanomedicine at the University of Zaragoza; the group leader at the Nanoscience and Materials Institute of Aragon (INMA), Spain, EU.
Specialization: Materials for Nanomedicine; Nanostructured Sensors; Unconventional Catalysis.
At the NANOCON´25 conference Jesús Santamaría Ramiro will present plenary talk "Beyond chemotherapy. Novel therapeutic nanoparticles and ways to deliver them to the tumor".
Personal Background and Education:
Jesús Santamaría Ramiro studied Chemistry/Chemical Engineering at the University of La Laguna (Spain) and did his PhD at the Salford University (England), with postdoctoral stays at Notre Dame University (1989) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2008), both in the USA.
Currently he is a Professor of Chemical Engineering and Exobiopharma Chair of Nanomedicine at the University of Zaragoza in Spain, as well as group leader at the Nanoscience and Materials Institute of Aragon (INMA, https://inma.unizar-csic.es/en) – one of only 36 research centers in Spain from all knowledge areas to have received the highly prestigious Severo Ochoa label, and at the Networking Research Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CiberBBN, https://www.ciber-bbn.es/en).
Research interests:
His research group Nanostructured Films and Particles (NFP) specializes in the development of high-precision, scalable synthesis of nanomaterials and on the applications of the structures synthesized, in fields that include:
- unconventional catalysis (catalysis assisted by electromagnetic fields, including light, microwaves and magnetic fields);
- nanostructured sensors capable of molecular recognition, especially for gas phase molecules;
- materials for nanomedicine, including novel vectors for drug delivery, hyperthermia and materials for bio-orthogonal catalysis;
- nanosafety: nanomaterials-related risks and ways to avoid them.
Scientific Awards:
Prof. Santamaría is among the leading European researchers on the synthesis and application of nanomaterials and his work has been acknowledged by numerous awards and other forms of recognition, including in recent years the Third Millennium “Research and Future” Award (2022), his election as Academician in the Royal Academy of Sciences of the Canary Islands (2018), Academia Europaea-The Academy of Europe (2022) and Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Science et Lettere (2023), as well as the Prize for Excellence in Research awarded by the government of Aragon (2024).
He has taken part in 102 research projects, in most of them as P.I. Of these projects, 21 have been EU-funded, including three of the highly prestigious ERC Advanced Grants (HECTOR, 2011-16; CADENCE, 2017-23; and ROMEO, 2025-30) the last two focused on developing catalysts and nanoparticles capable of fighting cancer, as well as novel methods to deliver them to the tumor.
Summary of publication activity:
Author and co-author of more than 380 publications in international peer-reviewed journals; the number of total citations >22.000 and H-index: 77 (Google Scholar, June 2025).