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Research lines
Research lines associated with this Doctorate program are organised in five wide research fields:

1. Supramolecular chemistry, molecular recognition and molecular self-assembly in Nanoscience
Design of functional molecules and molecular-based nanostructures. Organization of molecules in surfaces and interfaces. Study of crystalline materials under extreme conditions.

2. Crystalline Engineering and Molecular Materials Design
Molecular conductors and superconductors. Magnetic molecular materials. Molecular photonic materials. Switchable molecular materials. Porous coordination polymers (MOFs) and 2D materials

3. Molecular electronics
Preparation, study and theoretical modelling of optoelectronics materials, nanostructures and devices (solar cells, OLEDs, OFETs, molecular lasers?). Carbon nanostructures (fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, graphene, etc.) and its use in molecular electronics. Preparation, study and theoretical modelling of unimolecular devices.

4. Molecular Nanomagnetism
Preparation, study and theoretical modelling of molecular nanomagnets and molecular nanostructures. Molecules and materials for molecular spintronics. Molecules and materials for molecular spintronics. Magnetic molecules for quantum computing. Structural, electronic and magnetic characterization of molecules and magnetic nanomaterials by proximity microscopy techniques (STM, AFM, MFM).

5. Applications of Molecular Nanoscience
Applications of coordination chemistry in molecular magnetism and spintronics. Applications of coordination chemistry in molecular electronics. Biomedical applications of molecules and molecular nanomaterials. Molecular sensors. Molecular optoelectronic devices (solar cells, OLEDs, molecular lasers, etc.). Direct fuel production with solar light. Molecular spintronics devices (molecular spin-valves, spin-OLEDs, spin-OFETs, etc.).
Thesis supervisors
Professors and researchers that take part in this PhD program, are associated in the following research teams.

Research lines: 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5

Clemente Juan, Juan Modesto
Coronado Miralles, Eugenio
Forment Aliaga, Alicia
Lorenz Fonfria, Victor Armando
Mendoza Valderrey, Abraham
Lahoz Zamarro, Fernando
Colino García, José Miguel
De Toro Sánchez, Jose Angel
Gómez Gómez, Lourdes
Normile, Peter Stephen
Rodríguez Rodríguez, Gabriel
Research lines: 3 & 5

Aragó March, Juan
Bolink, Hendrik Jan
Roldan Carmona, Cristina
Sessolo, Michele
Tordera, Daniel
Barrejón Araque, Miriam
Caballero Briceño, Ruben
De la Cruz Manrique, Pilar
Domínguez Martín, Rocío
Douhal Alaui, Abderrazzak
Gómez-Escalonilla Romojaro, Maria Jose
Gutiérrez Tovar, Mario
Koen, Boyko Yuda
Langa de la Puente, Fernando
Díaz García, María A.
Sabater Piqueres, Carlos
Research lines: 1, 2 & 4

Albelda Gimeno, María Teresa
Bartual Murgui, Carlos
Blasco Llopis, Salvador
Cano Boquera, Joan
Ferrando Soria, Jesús
García-España Monsonís, Enrique
González García, Jorge
Llinares Berenguer, José Miguel
Lloret Pastor, Francisco
Martínez Lillo, Francisco José
Pardo Marín, Emilio
Real Cabezos, José Antonio
Stiriba Lakani, Salah-Eddine
Verdejo Viu, Begoña
Research lines: 2 & 3

Abánades Lázaro, Isabel
Abellán Saez, Gonzalo
Almora Barrios, Neyvis
Clemente León, Miguel
Giménez Marqués, Mónica
Martí Gastaldo, Carlos
Mínguez Espallargas, Guillermo
Muñoz Padial, Natalia
Tatay Aguilar, Sergio
Ayala Díaz, Juan Heliodoro
González Platas, Javier
Lago Blanco, Ana Belén
Martín Benenzuela, Inocencio Rafael
Pasán García, Jorge
Pino, Verónica
Niza, Enrique
Research lines: 2, 3, 4 & 5

Baldoví Jachán, José Jaime
Bedoya Pinto, Amilcar
Canet Ferrer, Josep
Cantarero Sáez, Andrés
Cardona Serra, Salvador
Córdoba Castillo, Rosa
Gaita Ariño, Alejandro
Navarro Moratalla, Efrén
Binns, Christopher
Caturla Terol, María José
Fernández Rossier, Joaquín Ignacio
Fullana Font, Andrés
Soriano, David
Untiedt Lecuona, Carlos
Regulations
Regulations for the deposit, evaluation and defense of the thesis are those established by the University of Valencia for all students, independently of where the student is enrolled.

Procedures and established deadlines for the assignment of a tutor and a thesis director will follow the regulations of the University of Valencia for all students.

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PhD thesis database
List of doctoral thesis in process and the ones already defended within the PhD Program.
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Universitat de València
PhD Student: Varghese Alapatt
Tittle: "Hybrid materials and devices, based on physical or chemical design of 2D heterostructures, for spintronics and energy storage"
Director/s: Josep Canet Ferrer
PhD Student: Marta Alcaraz Megias
Tittle: "Chemistry and interface control of novel 2D-pnictogen nanomaterials"
PhD Student: Alba Arroyo Fructuoso
Tittle: "Design and nanofabrication of advanced superconducting nanostructures and devices using Focused Ion Beams"
PhD Student: Mercy Elena Arteaga Vinza
Tittle: "Compuestos macrocíclicos con capacidad transmembrana y sus aplicaciones biomédicas."
Director/s: Mª Teresa Albelda Gimeno | Salvador Blasco Llopis
PhD Student: Shoaib Azeem
Tittle: "Magnetic Prussian Blue Analogues as Molecular Materials for Spintronic Devices"
Tittle: "Towards functional heterostructures based on 2D ferroic materials and (molecular) nanomagnets"
PhD Student: Carla Boix Constant
Tittle: "Magnetism and superconductivity in 2D systems: influence of dimensionality"
PhD Student: Isaac Brotons Alcázar
Tittle: "Funcionalización molecular de materiales 2D: propiedades, modulación y dispositivos de fácil implementación."
PhD Student: Daniel Brown
Tittle: "Óptica, transporte y magnetoóptica en aislantes topológicos con aplicaciones en termoelectricidad y espintrónica"
PhD Student: Mateo Calle Velásquez
Tittle: "Optical control of insertion, folding and dimerization of membrane protein fragments"
PhD Student: Fernando Cantos Prieto
Tittle: "Materiales 2D magnéticos para nuevos dispositivos espintrónicos"
Director/s: Efrén Navarro
Tittle: "MOLECULAR DESIGN OF BIOMATERIALS"
PhD Student: Jesús Antonio Cases Díaz
Tittle: "MOF as supports for the immobilization of enzymes"
PhD Student: Clara Chinchilla Garzón
Tittle: "CONTROL QUIMICO DE ESTABILIDAD Y FUNCION EN REDES TITANIO-ORGANICAS PARA FOTOCATALIZADORES POROSOS"
PhD Student: Sofia Chozas Barrientos
Tittle: "Highly Efficient Fully Evaporated Perovskite Silicon Tandem Solar Cells"
Director/s: Henk Bolink
PhD Student: Pau Congost Escoin
Tittle: "Materiales 2D para aplicaciones biomédicas."
PhD Student: Calisa Carolina Da Silva Dias De Oliveira
Tittle: "Spin transport in two-dimensional easy-plane magnets grown by molecular beam epitaxy."
PhD Student: Serhii Derenko
Tittle: "Vacuum-processed perovskite photodetectors"
PhD Student: Youssra Diouane
Tittle: "Layered double hydroxides for energy storage applications"
PhD Student: Chris Lennart Dreessen
Tittle: "Identification of loss factors in high efficiency perovskite solar cells"
Tittle: "Development of molecular imaging agents for PET/MRI based on MOF-type hybrid materials with nucleic acids."
Director/s: Jorge Gonzalez Garcia
Co-director: Hernández Gil, Javier
PhD Student: Nadia El Alouani Dahmouni
Tittle: "Complejos heterobimetálicos con ligando ditiooxalato"
PhD Student: Hanane El Mansour El Jastimi
Tittle: "DESIGN OF CHIRAL SPIN CROSSOVER MOLECULES FOR MULTIFUNCTIONAL COMPOUNDS AND SURFACES "
PhD Student: Safaa Elidrissi Moubtassim
Tittle: "Fabrication and characterization of multifunctional devices based on molecular materials"
PhD Student: Dorye Esteras Córdoba
Tittle: "Silicon metasurfaces assited by nano-resonators for the interconnection of lighting systems"
PhD Student: Michele Forzatti
Tittle: "Light-emitting devices based on perovskites and thermally delayed fluorescence"
Director/s: Henk Bolink
Tittle: "Electronic, spintronic and magnonic properties of two-dimensional heterostructures"
PhD Student: Jaime García Caba
Tittle: "Redes metal-orgánicas como nanoreactores químicos: Relevancia del reconocimiento molecular en catálisis, descontaminación ambiental y aplicaciones biológicas. "
PhD Student: Alejandro García Regueiro
Tittle: "Design of chiral spin-crossover molecules for multifuctional compounds and surfaces (Super-SCO)"
Tittle: "Biological design of protein-framework interfaces for active encapsulation"
Co-director: María Jesús García Murria
PhD Student: Silvia M. Gimenez Santamarina
Tittle: "Theoretical studies of molecular materials for applications in spintronics"
PhD Student: Inma Gomar Fernández
Tittle: "Close-Space Sublimation for Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells"
Director/s: Henk Bolink
PhD Student: Eloy Pablo Gómez de Oliveira
Tittle: "Sólidos Reticulares de Titanio como plataforma para el diseño de fotocatalizadores porosos"
PhD Student: Iván Gómez Muñoz
Tittle: "Chemical design of magnetic biestable molecules for their integration in stimuli-responsive Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) and spintronic devices"
Tittle: "Engineering Chiral Porosity in Metal-Organic Frameworks"
PhD Student: Mónica Victoria Gutiérrez Salazar
Tittle: "Optical control of photoswitchable hydrophobic peptides "
PhD Student: Camilo Andrés Jaramillo Hernández
Tittle: "Two-dimensional materials for energy storage and conversion: Synthesis, scale up and devices."
PhD Student: Isabella Antony Kalluvila Justin
Tittle: "Luminescent Metal Halide Perovskites"
Director/s: Henk Bolink
PhD Student: Ivona Kosic
Tittle: "Synthesis and characterization of high quality two-dimensional materials"
Director/s: Efrén Navarro
Tittle: "Novel tripodal ligands for targeting non‐canonical nucleic acid structures"
Director/s: Jorge Gonzalez Garcia
PhD Student: Thibaut Quentin Meven Le Huec
Tittle: "DA-LEADER-Nanostructured and flexible Metal-Organic Frameworks "
PhD Student: Luis León Alcaide
Tittle: "Functional Molecular Materials"
PhD Student: Diego López Alcalá
Tittle: "Chemical design of smart molecular/2D devices for information technologies"
PhD Student: Francisco Marqués Moros
Tittle: "Estudio de las propiedades físicas en materiales 2D y en heteroestructuras híbridas basadas en los mismos"
Director/s: Eugenio Coronado Miralles | Josep Canet Ferrer
PhD Student: Sonia Martínez Giménez
Tittle: "Defect engineering in reticular solids"
PhD Student: Lucía Martínez Goyeneche
Tittle: "CONTROL DE LA RECOMBINACION RADIATIVA EN CELULAS SOLARES FLEXIBLES DE TIPO TANDEM PEROVSKITA- PEROVSKITA"
Tittle: "Radical chemistry in valorization processes"
PhD Student: Jaume Meseguer Sánchez
Tittle: "Studies of exotic magneto-electric states in atomically thin materials."
Director/s: Efrén Navarro
PhD Student: Maria Teresa Minguez Hernandez
Tittle: "Los MOF como fotocatalizadores en microalgas"
PhD Student: Filippo Mione
Tittle: "Ferroic orders and non-reciprocity in the 2D limit"
Director/s: Efrén Navarro
PhD Student: Clara Miranda Pérez
Tittle: "Magnetism in two-dimensional materials and fabrication of vertical van der Waals heterostructures"
PhD Student: Arghanoon Moeini
Tittle: "LEDs and Perovskites based solar cells/ LEDs y células solares basadas en perovskitas"
Director/s: Henk Bolink
PhD Student: Alberto Montoya Ruiz
Tittle: "Theoretical study of 2D materials with interest in magnonics and quantum computing."
PhD Student: Laura Mulet Rivero
Tittle: "Desarrollo de complejos metálicos para la interacción y detección de estructuras no canónicas de ácidos nucleicos."
Director/s: Enrique García-España Monsonís | Jorge Gonzalez Garcia
Tittle: "Probing new material properties using advanced Raman spectroscopy under external fields. "
PhD Student: Mohammad Ali Nasiri
Tittle: "Design and set up of a system for the measurement of thermal conductivity in two dimensional materials"
Director/s: Andrés Cantarero | Josep Canet Ferrer
PhD Student: Javier Navarro Alapont
Tittle: "Biomateriales basados en redes metal-orgánicas multicomponentes como mímicos de procesos catalíticos bioenzimáticos"
PhD Student: Pablo Navarro Madramany
Tittle: "Desarrollo de sistemas miméticos enzimáticos para el tratamiento de enfermedades neurodegenerativas"
PhD Student: Alejandro Nuñez Lopez
Tittle: "Diseño de heteroestructuras híbridas formadas por polímeros de coordinación porosos MOFs crecidos sobre cristales de materiales bidimensionales"
PhD Student: Victor Manuel Orlando Curbelo
Tittle: "Crecimiento y caracterización de materiales bidimensionales ferroicos mediante epitaxia de haz molecular ( MBE)"
PhD Student: Abhyuday Paliwal
Tittle: "Efficient Perovskite solar cells on metal thin films"
Director/s: Henk Bolink
PhD Student: Manuel Piot
Tittle: "Additive engineering of co-evaporated perovskite for stable and efficient solar cells"
PhD Student: Carlos David Prado Socorro
Tittle: "Fabrication, characterization, and applications of novel memristive devices based on molecular materials."
PhD Student: Joost Reinders
Tittle: "Thin Film Thermoelectrics for Near Room Temperature Applications."
Director/s: Henk Bolink
Co-director: Francisco Palazón Huet
PhD Student: Julia Mónica Requena Ramírez
Tittle: "Carbon-based nanomaterials for biomedical applications"
Director/s: Jorge Gonzalez Garcia
PhD Student: Gerardo Gustavo Ripoll Rascheya
Tittle: "Metalloligand based MOFs"
PhD Student: Gonzalo Rivero Carracedo
Tittle: "Theoretical study of 2D magnetic materials and hybrid heterostructures"
PhD Student: Nathan Rodkey
Tittle: "Scalable Vacuum-Based Methods for Halide Perovskites"
Director/s: Henk Bolink
Co-director: Monica Morales
PhD Student: Christian Rodriguez Boscà
Tittle: "Metal-Organic Frameworks II"
Tittle: "Coding multivariate modulated MOFs composition,structure, and adaptability for enhanced applications"
PhD Student: Sergio Ruiz Gamarra
Tittle: "MOFs based on TTF-derivated ligands."
PhD Student: Mireia Ruiz Gasent
Tittle: "Poliaminas soportadas para el reconocimiento y detección de analitos de interés medioambiental."
PhD Student: Andrey Rybakov
Tittle: "Magnon dynamics calculations in 2D materials from Maximally localized Wannier functions"
Tittle: "Scaling Up Fully Evaporated Solar Cells on Flexible Substrates with Enhanced Stability and Efficiency"
PhD Student: Alvaro Seijas Da Silva
Tittle: "Chemical approach to magnetic heterostructures based on 2D materials"
PhD Student: Ali Sheraz
Tittle: "“Aplicaciones de aislantes topológicos a espintrónica y termoelectricidad”,"
PhD Student: María Simón García
Tittle: "Desarrollo de Sistemas eficientes de almacenamiento energético basados en nanomateriales"
PhD Student: Edoardo Stanzani
Tittle: "Accessing OLED degradation by combining device simulations and characterization "
Director/s: Henk Bolink
Co-director: Jenatsch, Sandra
Tittle: "Diseño de sistemas magnéticos moleculares y su integración en superficies"
PhD Student: David Valcarreras Sanlorenzo
Tittle: "Organic synthesis based on highly unsaturated carbon"
Tittle: "Upscaling perovskite thin film production for industrial application"
Director/s: Henk Bolink
Co-director: Bolink, Henk
PhD Student: Natalya Vassilyeva
Tittle: "New 2D based hybrid materials through molecular functionalization"
PhD Student: María Vicent Morales
Tittle: "Preparación de redes metal-orgánicas"
Universitat de Alicante
PhD Student: Tamara de Ara García
Tittle: "Hacia nanoestructuras magnéticas y superconductoras"
Director/s: Carlos Untiedt
Tittle: "Study of materials with topological and superconducting states using nanofabricated devices"
Director/s: Carlos Untiedt
PhD Student: Mar Ferri Cortes
Tittle: "Quantum computing with atomic and molecular networks on surfaces"
PhD Student: Rubén García Correcher
Tittle: "Remediación de contaminantes mediante inducción en nanopartículas magnéticas"
PhD Student: Abel Carlos Gutiérrez Camacho
Tittle: "Connection between defect induced local stress and macroscopic properties in ion irradiated FeCr alloys for fusion applications"
PhD Student: Eudomar Rafael Henriquez Guerra
Tittle: "Interplay between antiferromagnetic order and the photoresponse of 2D materials and their heterostructures"
Director/s: M. Reyes Calvo Urbina
Tittle: "Quantum transport in simple and twisted nanojunctions"
Tittle: "Dispositivos optoelectrónicos basados en redes difractivas poliméricas."
PhD Student: David Sanz Ruiz
Tittle: "2D Ferromagnets: Novel Applications and Twistronics"
Universidad de La Laguna
PhD Student: Mario Lorenzo Díaz González
Tittle: "Propiedades optoquímicas y biomédicas de pigmentos láser derivados de antiestrógenos y su aplicación al tratamiento del cáncer de mama"
PhD Student: Christian Hernández Álvarez
Tittle: "Optical Sensors based on Luminescent Materials containing Transition and Lanthanides Ions"
Co-director: Marcin Runowski
PhD Student: Yaiza Martín García
Tittle: "Diseño, síntesis, caracterización de nuevos materiales compuestos por redes metal orgánicas "
Tittle: "MOFs multivariados como plataformas para perfiles de adsorción de contaminantes emergentes"
Universidad de Castilla La Mancha
PhD Student: Lina Fernanda Castaño Esquilin
Tittle: "DISEÑO Y SÍNTESIS DE METALOPORFIRINAS PARA APLICACIONES FOTOVOLTAICAS"
PhD Student: Mario de la Hoz Tomás
Tittle: "Hacia LEDs basados en Redes Organo-Metálicas, y unidas por enlaces de Hidrógeno (MOFs, HOFs). "
PhD Student: Rafael Delgado García
Tittle: "Estudio de nanoestructuras magnéticas y superconductoras de interés en electrónica avanzada"
Director/s: Jose M. Colino | Gabriel Rodríguez Rodríguez
PhD Student: Raúl López Martín
Tittle: "Gas-phase synthesis of high performance nanostructured magnetic materials"
Director/s: Chris Binns
PhD Student: Alicia Maldonado Medina
Tittle: "____"
PhD Student: María Mondéjar López
Tittle: "Nanotecnología en tratamientos fitosanitarios y nanotecnología cosmética "
PhD Student: Lucía Morote Rodríguez
Tittle: "Metabolitos secundarios"
Tittle: "Empleo de Fluoróforos de Transferencia Protónica en MOFs para Dispositivos Fotónicos"
PhD Student: Helena Uceta Sánchez-Pinilla
Tittle: "Materiales orgánicos para células solares orgánicas y electrónica molecular. Síntesis, estudios espectroscópicos y aplicación en dispositivos solares."
Co-director: Myriam Barrejón Araque