• 1982-1987 Degree in Chemical Sciences (Physical Chemistry) at the USC. Bachelor's thesis.

• 1991 PhD Thesis "Photoinduced proton transfer processes in 2-pyridylbenzimidazoles", Department of Physical Chemistry, USC, Directors: Profs. Flor Rodríguez Prieto and Manuel Mosquera González.

• 1988 Predoctoral stay at the Center for Structural Chemistry of the Higher Technical Institute of Lisbon (Portugal), under supervision of Prof. Antonio Maçanita.

• 1990 Predoctoral stay at the Spectroscopy Department of the Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie in Göttingen (Germany), under supervision of Dr. Bernhard Nickel and Dr. Karl H. Grellmann.

• 1992 Postdoctoral stay at the Laboratory of Molecular Dynamics and Spectroscopy of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), under supervision of Prof. Frans C. De Schryver.

• 1992-1995 Assistant Professor at the USC.

• 1993-1996 Postdoctoral stays and research-contract in the photobiology group of the Medical Laser Center in Lübeck (Germany), with Dr. Heyke Diddens and Prof. Reginal Birngruber.

• Since 1996, Associate Professor at the Department of Physical Chemistry of the USC in Lugo (permanent position in 1998).

• Since 2003, together with Prof. Wajih Al-Soufi, director of the Single Molecule Fluorescence Research Unit of the Group Biophysical Chemistry, Photophysics and Spectroscopy (USC).

• 2015 National Accreditation as Full Professor (Acreditación National para Catedrático de Universidad), 3th of november, 2015.

• Since 2013 Founder and Chief Coordinator of the “Teaching Innovation Group XuvenCiencia” http://www.usc.es/xuvenciencia(link is external). “XuvenCiencia”, offers training to school staff, develops educational science kits and organizes one of the biggest annual scientific summer campus for young people in Spain.

• 2023 Full Professor of Physical Chemistry

I received my training in physical chemistry and especially in photophysics under the direction of Professors Flor Rodríguez Prieto and Manuel Mosquera González and during several stays in laboratories specialized in fluorescence life-time measurements, flash photolysis and phosphorescence techniques applied to systems with photoinduced proton transfer. In postdoctoral stays at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium), I worked with Langmuir Blodgett films and the "time of flight" technique, and at the Medical Laser Center in Lübeck (Germany) I conducted studies on the intracellular location of different photosensitizers used for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer in the field of photodynamic therapy (PDT).

In 2003, together with Prof. Dr. Wajih Al-Soufi, I founded the Single Molecule Fluorescence Research Unit for the application of fluorescence microscopy techniques of high spatial and temporal resolution to systems of biological or technological interest such as DNA, proteins, liposomes, micelles or cyclodextrins. Our main interest is the study of the dynamics of the supramolecular association and the processes of biomolecular recognition. For this purpose, we apply fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS), multiparametric fluorescence detection of individual molecules (MFD) and internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (TIRF).

In 2004 we presented for the first time the application of FCS to the dynamics of host-guest-type molecular inclusion processes (JACS 2005, 127, 8775) and to the dynamics of the solubilization in micelles (JPC B, 2007, 3614). We determined the sequence specificity of the binding dynamics of minor groove ligands of DNA (Angew, Chem. Int. Ed., 2012, 51, 7541) and we recently published the first direct determination of the critical aggregation concentration for the formation of early Amyloid-β (1-42) oligomers responsible for Alzheimer’s disease (Scientific Reports 2018, 8.). Since 2004, we have obtained continuous funding in competitive calls and participated in national research networks and EU-COST actions. 

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