Francisco Mata PhD

Francisco Javier De La Mata De La Matav (Madrid, 1965) holds a degree (1990) and a PhD (1992) in Chemical Sciences from the University of Alcala. Professor of Inorganic Chemistry since 2016, he has four research merits (six-year periods, 1990-2013) and four teaching merits (five-year periods, 1994-2014). He completed a postdoctoral stay at the California Institute of Technology, CALTECH (1993-1994), under the supervision of Prof. Robert H. Grubbs (Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2005). In recent years, he has been Vice Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Sciences at the UAH (2002-2010) and Director of the UAH Research Support Center for Chemistry (2010 – 2018).

Over the last 10 years, his activity has focused mainly on the development of dendritic nanosystems for their application in biomedicine. Within this line of research, he has participated in 27 research projects funded by local, regional, national, or international organizations, acting as PI or co-PI in each of them. He has also directed 21 research contracts and is the author of more than 150 scientific publications in high-impact international journals. He has participated as co-author in 6 book chapters and more than 170 communications at national and international conferences and is also the co-author of 18 patents, 8 of which are currently being exploited by different companies. He is a founding partner of two technology-based companies, Dendrico SL and Ambiox Biotech, SL, and Sole Administrator of the latter from its foundation in 2010 until 2016.

He has received the MADRID+D Knowledge Foundation Award, Madrid+d Competition 2008 and 2014 for the best patents, and has been awarded in the IV and VII Awards for the “University-Society Knowledge Transfer”, in the category of Health Sciences, Experimental Sciences and Technical Branches of the Social Council of the University of Alcalá (2009 and 2012, respectively). He has directed 11 doctoral theses, 14 Master's theses, and 9 Final Degree Projects.