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Positions

• Postdoctoral researcher
  University of Cambridge, UK
  Prof. Gonçalo Bernades group

• Postdoctoral researcher
  University of Zaragoza, Spain
  Prof. Jesus Santamaria group

Education

• Ph.D. in Chemical Science and Technology (Cum Laude, maximum distinction).
  University of Zaragoza, Spain
  Thesis title: Nanoparticle-driven Novel Cancer Therapeutics. Catalysis for Homeostasis Disruption
  Advisors: Prof. Jesús Santamaría and Dr. José Luis Hueso.

• Visiting scholar in Organic chemistry and Chemical Biology
  University of California, Berkeley, USA
  Advisor: Prof. Christopher J. Chang.

• MSc in Nanostructured Materials
  University of Zaragoza, Spain
  MSc project: Synthesis and Catalytic Activity of Nanoparticles for VOC removal
  Advisors: Dr. Francisco Jose-Fernandez Alvarez and Dr. Guillermo Lazaro Villarroya.

• BSc in Chemistry (Best mark of my promotion. Awarded with honors).
  University of Zaragoza, Spain
  BSc final project: Nanofabrication of electronic devices based on organo-organometallic compounds
  Advisor: Dr. Santiago Martin Solans.

Teaching

• 2022-2023. Environmental Engineering. BSc of Electrical Engineering. 1st course. (30 h). UZ.
• 2022-2023. Environmental Engineering. BSc of Mechanical Engineering. 1st course. (30 h). UZ.
• 2021-2022. Chemistry. BSc of Electrical Engineering. 1st course. (30 h). UZ.
• 2021-2022. Chemistry. BSc of Electrical Engineering. 1st course. (30 h). UZ.
• 2020-2021. Fundamentals in Chemical Engineering. BSc of Chemistry. 3rd course. (30 h). UZ.
• 2020-2021. Chemistry. BSc of Chemical Engineering. 1st course. (30 h). UZ.

Fellowships and Awards

• Nanomaterials Travel Award (2023). Award granted for my early-stage research career. It provided me funding for assist to the conference Nanomed Europe 2023, in Liverpool, UK.
• Premio Tercer Milenio (2022). Award conceded to CADENCE project where I developed my Ph.D. thesis.
• Visiting Research Fellowship (2022). Granted by Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities of Spain, to fund my stay at University of California, Berkeley.
• Third prize in First Poster Competition of Material Science. (2021). Award conceded to my contribution entitled “Gold-based nanoparticles on amine-functionalized mesoporous silica supports as nanozymes for glucose oxidation”.
• Young Researcher Award (2020). Award conceded to the best oral presentation in 5th Spanish Young Researchers in Colloids and Interfaces Meeting.
• FPU fellowship (2019) granted by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities of Spain, to fund my PhD thesis. Most competitive fellowship in Spain, only 14 for the whole country in Chemical Technology area.
• Bachelor of Chemistry with Honors (2018). Awarded to the best expedient.
• Research Fellowship by Institute of Materials Science of Aragon (ICMA). (2017) Competitive fellowship. With the aim of introducing students into investigation.
• Research Fellowship by Spanish Ministry of education, culture and sport. (2017) “Beca de colaboración”. Very competitive fellowship, only 2356 for the whole country (includes all knowledge areas).

Conference contributions

• Nanomed Europe (Jun 2023). Bonet-Aleta J. ; Pezacki A.T., Oi M., Hueso. J.L., Santamaria J., Chang C. J. Labile Copper Imaging as a tool to study Cancer Cell response towards Therapeutic Nanoparticles. Oral communication.
• XXXVIII Reunion Bienal Real Sociedad Española de Química. (Jun 2023). Bonet-Aleta J.; Pezacki A.T., Oi M., Hueso. J.L., Santamaria J., Chang C. J. Labile Copper Imaging as a tool to study Cancer Cell response towards Therapeutic Nanoparticles. Oral communication.
• XXXVII Reunion Bienal Real Sociedad Española de Química. (Jun 2022). Bonet-Aleta J.; Encinas M; Urriolabeitia E. P.; Martin-Duque P.; Hueso J.L.; Santamaria J. Targeting Glutathione with Copper-Iron based Nanoplatforms for Cancer Therapy: Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalytic Interplay in the Tumor Microenvironment. Oral communication.
• I Symposium in molecular chemistry and catalysis. (Jun 2022). Bonet-Aleta J.; Encinas M; Urriolabeitia, E. P.; Martin-Duque P.; Hueso J.L.; Santamaria J. Coupling Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis for Nanocatalytic cancer therapy. Oral communication.
• Nanomaterials Applied to Life Sciences NALS. (Apr 2022). Bonet-Aleta J. Encinas M; Urriolabeitia E. P.; Martin-Duque P.; Hueso J.L.; Santamaria J. Exploiting GSH oxidation with nanocatalysts to promote cancer cell death. Oral Communication.
• IX Workshop of Young Investigators in Chemistry and Physics of Aragon. (Dec 2021). Bonet-Aleta J.; Sancho-Albero M.; Calzada J.; Irusta S.; Martin-Duque P.; Hueso J.L.; Santamaria J. Targeting Glutathione with catalytic nanoparticles to promote cancer cell death. Oral Communication.
• IV Young Researchers Meeting CIBERONC-BBN (Dec 2021). Bonet-Aleta J.; Encinas M; Sancho-Albero M.; Urriolabeitia E. P.; Calzada J.; Irusta S.; Martin-Duque P.; Hueso J.L.; Santamaria J. Targeting Glutathione with catalytic nanoparticles to promote cancer cell death. Poster.
• IV Young Researchers Meeting CIBERONC-BBN (Dec 2021). Bonet-Aleta J.; Garcia-Peiro J.I.; Miguel S.; Hueso J.L.; Santamaria J. Noble metal-based nanomaterials with multi-enzymatic mimicking response in tumor relevant conditions. Poster.
• Nanospain 2021 (Nov 2021). Bonet-Aleta J.; Sancho-Albero M.; Calzada J.; Irusta S.; Martin-Duque P.; Hueso J.L.; Santamaria J. A potential catalytic therapy in oncology: Cu-Fe Nanoparticles responsive to tumor microenvironment. Oral Communication.
• XV National Workshop CIBER (Nov 2021). Madrid Martin A.; Bonet-Aleta J.; Martinez G.; Hueso J.L.; Santamaria J. Laser-driven direct synthesis of carbon nanodots and application as photosensitizers for near-infrarred photocatalysis. Video-presentation.
• SECAT-2021 (Sep 2021). Garcia-Peiro, J.I.; Bonet-Aleta J.; Calzada, J.; Hueso J.L.; Santamaria J. Nanostructured catalysts capable of modifying tumor microenvironment for development of new cancer therapies. Poster.
• 10th International Colloids Conference (Dec 2020). Bonet-Aleta J.; Garcia-Peiro, J.I.; Calzada, J.; Hueso J.L.; Santamaria J. Cu-Fe based Nanoplatform with enzyme-mimicking response towards Glutathione-Glucose depletion for cancer therapy. Oral Communication.
• 5th Spanish Young Researchers in Colloid and Interfaces Meeting (Mar 2020). Garcia-Peiro, J.I.; Bonet-Aleta J.; Esperanza Fernandez; Calzada, J.; Hueso J.L.; Santamaria J. Controlled synthesis of coreshell hybrid plasmonic structures for the photocatalytic oxidation of targeted metabolites under near infrared illumination. Oral Communication.
• NanoPT 2020 (Sep 2020). Bonet-Aleta J.; Calzada J.; Sancho-Albero M.; Irusta S.; Hueso, J.L.; Santamaria J. Enzyme-mimicking catalytic activity in tumoral microenvironment: towards glutathione-glucose depletion for cancer therapy. Oral Communication.
• 5th Spanish Young Researchers in Collod and Interfaces Meeting (Mar 2020). Bonet-Aleta J.; Garcia-Peiro, J.I.; Calzada, J.; Hueso J.L.; Santamaria J. Cu-Fe based Nanoplatform with enzyme-mimicking response towards Glutathione-Glucose depletion for cancer therapy. Oral Communication.
• NationalWorkshop CIBER-BBN (Oct 2019). Madrid A.; Martinez G.; Bonet-Aleta J.; Calzada J.; Hueso, J.L. and Santamaria, J. Lasser-assisted direct synthesis of carbon dots for applications in nanomedicine. Poster
• National Workshop CIBER-BBN (Oct 2019). Bonet-Aleta J.; Alejo, J.; Juste, Y.; Garcia-Peiro, J. I.; Calzada J.; Hueso, J.L.; Sebastian, V.; Garcia-Aznar, J. M.; Martin-Duque, P. and Santamaria, J. Catalytic Dual-Function Devices Against Cancer (CADENCE): first advances in modifying tumorous microenvironment. Poster.

Invited talks

• Seminar at Universidad Autónoma de Baja California. Nano-MX (Nov 2022). Catalytic Metal-based nanoparticles and its application for Cancer Therapy.
• Seminar at University of Panamá. (Mar 2022). Tumor chemistry for targeted cancer therapy using catalytic nanoparticles.
• Seminar at Universitat Jaume I (Jun 2021). The chemistry of tumors as new tool for alterantive therapies using catalytic nanoparticles.