Draft:Luis Liz Marzán
Luis Manuel Liz Marzán (Lugo, December 20, 1965), is a Spanish chemist, specialized in the synthesis of nanomaterials with special optical properties and their applications in biomedicine.
Biography
He graduated in Chemistry at the University of Santiago de Compostela in 1988 and obtained a PhD in 1992 at the same university, presenting a PhD thesis entitled “Microemulsions. A new reaction medium for the synthesis of ultrafine magnetic particles”, under the supervision of Prof. M. Arturo López-Quintela. After two years of postdoctoral research at Utrecht University (The Netherlands) returned to Spain in 1995, joining the University of Vigo, where he climbed the academic ladder up to a chair in Physical Chemistry in 2006. In 2012 he moved to Donostia-San Sebastián, as an Ikerbasque Research Professor and Scientific Director of the Center of Cooperative Research in Biomaterials, CIC biomaGUNE. Liz-Marzán spent brief periods as a Visiting Professor in various institutions worldwide, such as Tohoku University (Japan), University of Michigan (USA), The University of Melbourne (Australia), Universität Hamburg (Germany), Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (Germany), King Saud University (Saudi Arabia), École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay (France), Jiangnan University (China) and Collège de France.
Research
Luis Liz Marzán’s principal research lines are:
- Synthesis, characterization and modeling of nanoparticles and materials of interest in nanomedicine and other nanotechnologies: Plasmonic nanomaterials.
- Processing of nanoparticles in the form of self-assembled mono- and multi-layers,colloidal aggregates, etc.
- Applications of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) for detection and diagnostics.
Highlighted Projects
- 2011 - European Research Council Advanced Grant for the project Development of plasmonic quorum sensors for understanding bacterial-eukaryotic cell relations, PLASMAQUO[1]
- 2018 - European Research Council Advanced Grant for the project Four-Dimensional Monitoring of Tumour Growth by Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering, 4DbioSERS[2]
Selected Awards and Recognitions
- Foreign academic of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.
- Number academic of the Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales (2021)
- Corresponding Member of the Real Academia Gallega de Ciencias
- Elected Member of the Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales
- Corresponding Member of the Academia de Ciencias Matemáticas, Físico-Químicas y Naturales de Granada
- Member of Academia Europaea
- Member of European Academy of Sciences
- Fellow of Optical Society of America
- Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry
- "Hermanos Elhuyar - Hans Goldschmidt" Award (German Chemical Society, GDCh) (2019)
- "Enrique Moles" National Research Award in Chemical Science and Technology (2018)
- Blaise Pascal Medal in Materials Science (European Academy of Sciences) (2017)
- JCIS-Darsh Wasan Award in Colloid and Interface Science (Elsevier) (2017)
- Rey Jaime I Prize in Basic Research (2015)
- Medal of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (2014)
- ECIS Rhodia Prize (European Colloid and Interface Society) (2013)
- Langmuir Lecturer Award (American Chemical Society) (2012)
- ACS Nano Lectureship Award (American Chemical Society) (2012)
- Burdinola Research Award (2011)
- DuPont Prize for Science (2010)
- Humboldt Award (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2009)
- Physical Chemistry Award of the Spanish Royal Society (2009)