Biography:
Dr. Rosario Núñez was born in Loja (Granada), Spain, in 1968. In 1991 she graduated in Chemistry from the University of Granada. In 1994 she received her Master's degree in Chemistry from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). She carried out her thesis at the Laboratory of Inorganic Materials and Catalysis (LMI) at the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) under the supervision of Prof. Clara Viñas and received her PhD from the UAB in 1996. After that, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Bruno Boury and Prof. Robert Corriu at the Université de Montpellier II. In 1999, she joined ICMAB as a research associate to work at the LMI led by Prof. Francesc Teixidor. In 2001 she obtained a permanent position as Senior Scientist, later, in 2018, she was promoted to Research Scientist. Her research interests are the synthesis and study of the properties of boron cluster derivatives, the preparation of carboranyl-containing molecular and hybrid materials.

Research interest:
My research interest consists in the design, preparation and study of properties of boron cluster derivatives. These compounds can bind to dendrimer structures, hybrid materials, octasilsesquioxane cubes, as well as functionalize a wide variety of surfaces (nanoparticles, CNTs, graphene oxide, etc.). More recently, I have been interested in the design of small and large molecules with luminescent properties for optical applications. Another field of interest is the preparation of metallodendrimers based on metallacarboranes, which can be used in catalysis. I am also interested in the preparation of organic-inorganic hybrid materials containing carborananyls. Currently, I am interested in working on the functionalization of surfaces, especially CNTs and GO, with metallacarborane and carborane derivatives, and in the study of their properties and potential applications in materials science and biomedicine. In short, my field of research can be framed within inorganic chemistry, more specifically within the chemistry of Boron and Silicon, in the preparation of new materials of interest in biomedicine, especially in BNCT, and electronics.