Prof. Pilar Amo-Ochoa

Pilar Amo Ochoa has participated in 20 research projects, being the principal investigator in eight of them. She has published approximately 100 scientific articles in high-impact journals. She is researching within the scientific field of nanomaterials, working mainly on the design of new coordination polymers with molecular recognition and response to stimuli. She has acted as an evaluator for international journals. Additionally, in the last 10 years, she has directed four doctoral theses with two more in progress, 20 final degree projects, and nine final master's projects. Recently, she has given more than 15 conferences and participated in more than 60 international and national congresses. She has also collaborated and directed projects for innovation and improvement of teaching quality. For 10 years, she has coordinated scientific dissemination projects subsidized by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology and by the Royal Spanish Society of Chemistry (territorial section of Madrid), carrying out didactic workshops in different educational centers (Knowing Science Today Opens the Doors of Tomorrow). She has been the coordinator of the Scientific Dissemination Conference entitled "A Thousand Faces of the Periodic Table". Moreover, she obtained the Third Prize of the First Edition of the UAM “Science at School” Contest (2014), the Salvador Senent 2015 award, and the first prize in the contest "The Periodic Tables 2019" organizer by UAM.