PhD Student – Organic Chemistry

E-mail: Lucia.SanchezMateos(at)uclm.es

Lucía Sánchez-Mateos Calcerrada was born in 2002 in Ciudad Real, Spain. She obtained her Chemistry Degree in 2025 at the University of Catilla- La Mancha (UCLM).

She defended her final degree project titled “Obtaining polyesters by ROCOP using 1,3-dybutil-4-(2-hydroxyphenyl)-1H-imidazolium halides as organocatalysts”, supervised by Prof. Juan Tejeda Sojo. In this project, she could learn about synthesis and purification of organic compounds.

During her undergraduated studies, she completed an intership in 2024 at the Instrumentation Service of the Regional Institute for Applied Scientific Research (IRICA), in Ciudad Real, where she gained experience in operating various characterization techniques, including TGA, DSC, ATD, SEM, UV, XPS, and XRD.

In july 2026, she obtained her Organic Chemistry Master’s Degree at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. Her final Master’s Degree project was titled “Synthesis of organic compounds with pharmacological applications”, supervised by Prof. Silvia Roscales from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

In September 2026, she began her predoctoral research as a PhD candidate in the MSOC Nanochemistry Group, where she is currently investigating the functionalization of hydrogels for their use as wound dressings, under the supervision of Cristina Martín Jiménez.