Mercedes Vila

Mercedes Vila
Native name 'Mercedes Vila Juárez
Born 1975
Madrid
Alma mater Autonomous University of Madrid
Known for Material science
Scientific career
Institutions Complutense University of Madrid,
University of Aveiro
S.L.-CTECHnano

Mercedes Vila Juárez, (1975, Madrid) is a Spanish material science researcher. From 2015, she was Scientific Director of Coating Technologies S.L.-CTECHnano.

Path

Vila graduated in physical sciences from the Autonomous University of Madrid with a doctorate in materials, in December 2003.

She did five years of post-doctoral experience in work, funded by a Marie Curie Intra-European fellowship and several national programs of investigation, to develop coatings and deposition of surfaces using physical and chemical steam deposition.

In 2008, she incorporated the work of Santiago Ramón y Cajal into research by the faculty of Pharmacy of the Complutense University of Madrid, in one of the European groups of Nanomedice and regenerative Tissue engineering, with the funding of an ERG-Marie Curie Action grant (2008–2010).[1] During this period, she developed a material for the reconstruction of the loss of bone mass, with what promised to improve the quality of life of patients with some injuries, and pathologies such as bone cancer or osteoporosis.[2][3]

Her work has centred on the design and applications of nanoparticles based on graphite oxide .[1]

In November 2010, she was awarded, with four other scientists (Isabel Lastres Becker, Ana Briones Alonso, Elena Ramírez Parra and María Antonia Herrero), the L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science, with an endowment of €15000 to reward the work, for women younger than 40 years, to support woman in science.[2][4]

In 2013, she was the primary researcher at the University of Aveiro, becoming laboratory coordinator for applications of graphite in nanomedicine.[5] In 2015, while keeping her appointment as professor at the University of Aveiro, she joined the private company Coating Technologies S.L.-CTECHnano, as Scientific Director, becoming CEO of the company in 2017[6][7]

Co-founder of Biotech Foods, S.L. since February 2017[8]

Awards

  • 2006 Marie Curie IntraEuropean Fellowship. European Commission
  • 2008 Marie Curie Reintegration Grant. European Commission
  • 2010 Women in Science Award. L'Oreal Foundation-UNESCO
  • 2017 Marie Curie Society & Enterprise. European Commission

References

  1. 1 2 "Research@UA › Mercedes Vila". Retrieved 29 May 2016.
  2. 1 2 "La investigación "se viste de Prada" | Cultura Biotec". Retrieved 29 May 2016.
  3. ↑ "Mercedes Vila". woman.es.
  4. ↑ País, Ediciones El (18 Nov 2010). "Cinco científicas de la vida españolas reciben las becas L'Oréal-Unesco" (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 May 2016.
  5. ↑ Limited, DUSZA. "Graphene Supply, Application & Commercialisation 2014 – Mercedes Vila Juarez". www.graphene-applications-2014.com. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
  6. ↑ www.ctechnano.com
  7. ↑ ORCID. "M. Vila (0000-0002-8473-0881) – ORCID | Connecting Research and Researchers". orcid.org. Retrieved 13 May 2016.
  8. ↑ www.biotech-foods.com
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