ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • 1997-2002 Undergraduate studies in Chemistry, University of Alicante (Spain).
  • 2002-ongoing Doctoral Thesis. Supervisors: Carlos Moreno-Castilla and Francisco Carrasco-Marin. Dissertation title: Activated carbon monoliths as adsorbents for removal of VOC´s, University of Granada (Spain).
  • 2003-2004 Postgraduate courses in Chemistry, University of Granada (Spain).
  • Analitic aplications of GC-MS

    Fundamentals and aplications of heterogeneous catalysis in environmental and energetic reactions.

    Capilar Electrophoresis: fundaments and aplications.

    Physic adsorption in solid-gas systems. Fundamentals and aplications in the determination of the surface area and porous texture of the solids.

    Advanced Materials.

    Basic bibliographic information in experimental sciences.

    Caraterization of colloidal systems and interphases.

  • 2004 Short stay (3 months) in the Laboratoire de Spectrométrie Physique, Université Joseph Fourier and in the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble (France), working with SAXS-WAXS techniques.

FELLOWSHIPS

  • 2002-ongoing Postgraduate fellowship from the Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnologia (Spain).

PUBLICATIONS

CONGRESSES

  • Carbon 2006. Aberdeen (United Kingdom) 16-22/2006. "Gas Adsorption and X-Ray Scattering Measurements in Carbon Aerogels Prepared with Different Polymerization Catalysts”. David Fairén-Jiménez, Francisco Carrasco-Marín, Carlos Moreno-Castilla, David Djurado, Françoise Bley and Françoise Ehrburger-Dolle.
  • Carbon 2006. Aberdeen (United Kingdom) 16-22/2006. "Gas Adsorption and X-Ray Scattering Measurements in Carbon Aerogels Prepared with Different Polymerization Catalysts”. David Fairén-Jiménez, Francisco Carrasco-Marín, Carlos Moreno-Castilla, David Djurado, Françoise Bley and Françoise Ehrburger-Dolle.
  • Carbon 2006. Aberdeen (United Kingdom) 16-22/2006. "Porosity and Surface Area of Monolithic Carbon Aerogels Prepared Using Alkaline Carbonates and Organic Acids as Polymerization Catalysts". David Fairén-Jiménez, Francisco Carrasco-Marín and Carlos Moreno-Castilla.
  • VIII meeting of the Spanish Carbon Group, GEC´05. November 6-9, 2005 – Baeza (Spain). "Superficie y Microporosidad en aerogeles de carbón mediante adsorción de gases y medidas de dispersión de Rayos-x". David Fairén-Jiménez, Francisco Carrasco-Marín, David Djurado, Françoise Bley, Françoise Ehrburger-Dolle and  Carlos Moreno-Castilla.
  • VIII meeting of the Spanish Carbon Group, GEC´05. November 6-9, 2005 – Baeza (Spain). "Nuevos aerogeles de carbón". David Fairén-Jiménez, Francisco Carrasco-Marín and  Carlos Moreno-Castilla.

LANGUAGES

  • Spanish: mother language.
  • English: Fluent.
  • French, Catalan: basic reading and conversation.

IT SKILLS

  • Depht knowledge of PCs (Windows and Linux) and familiar with Macintosh platforms.
  • Knowledge of some CAD and Database packages, including Photoshop and Corel
    Draw.

OTHERS

  • 2006 Organization of the II Meeting of Young Researches of the University of Granada (ASI-Granada), in Granada (Spain).
  • 2006 IV Meeting of Young Researches (FJI), Madrid (Spain).
  • 2001-2002 Colaboration in the laboratory of María Domínguez in the Instituto de Neurociencias (Centro Mixto CSIC-Universidad Miguel Hernández). Unidad de Neurobiología del Desarrollo (working on Drosophila melanogaster).
  • 2001 Colaboration with the organic chemistry department in the subject “Experimentación en Química Orgánica” in the research laboratories, University of Alicante (50 hours).
  • 2000 I International Meeting on Bioethics of the University of Alicante, in Alicante (Spain).

REFERENCES

  • Dr. Carlos Moreno Castilla. Professor in Inorganic Chemistry in the Universidad de Granada. cmoreno (@) ugr.es
  • Dr. Francisco Carrasco Marín. Assistant professor in Inorganic Chemistry in the Universidad de Granada. fmarin (@) ugr.es
  • Dr. Françoise Ehrburger-Dolle. Director of Research of the CNRS. francoise.ehrburger-dolle (@) ujf-grenoble.fr
  • Dr. Angel Linares. Professor in Inorganic Chemistry in the Universidad de Alicante. linares@ua.es