Samuel Ordonez PhD

Samuel Sanchez Ordonez obtained his PhD in Chemistry at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2008. Currently, he is an ICREA Research Professor, Group Leader, and Deputy Director at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia. Before that, he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, at the Institute for Integrative Nanosciences at IFW Dresden, Germany, and MANA-NIMS in Japan. He is currently an honorary visiting Professor at HIT Harbin in China and an Adjunct Professor at POSTECH University in South Korea.

Samuel received several awards (among others): The MIT TR35 Top Innovator Under 35 Spain 2014, Guinness World Records in 2010 and 2017, the Princess of Girona Scientific Award 2015, and the National Research Award for Young Talent 2016 by the Catalan Research Foundation, and this year receive the Scientific Excellence award from the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry and recently the prestigious Bank Sabadell Foundation award for "Basic Science and Engineering award". He has been elected a member of the Young Academy of Spain since 2020. He received the prestigious ERC-Starting grant in 2013 and the ERC-Consolidator Grant in 2019, together with two ERC Proof of Concept grants. Besides extensive public funding (> 8M Eur), he has cooperation agreements with the Private sector and hospitals. His group's main interests span from self-propelled nanoparticles as intelligent vehicles in biomedicine to the 3D Bioengineering of biohybrid robots and actuators.