Dr. Ismael Díez Pérez

Biography

Professor Ismael Díez Pérez is the Head of the Department of Chemistry at King’s College London and a renowned expert in Nanochemistry. He earned his Chemistry degree from the University of Barcelona in 2001, followed by his PhD training at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and the University Pierre Marie-Curie in France. His doctoral research led to the development of a novel electrochemical tunneling spectroscopy approach for studying metal/electrolyte interfaces at the nanoscale, work for which he received the international ISE prize Hans-Jürgen-Engell in 2008. After completing his PhD in 2006, he won a Marie-Curie fellowship before joining Arizona State University as a postdoctoral researcher. There, he developed innovative single-molecule junction techniques to reveal fundamental electrical properties of single-molecule wires. In 2011, he became a senior researcher at the Institute of Bioengineering of Catalonia, later obtaining a position at the University of Barcelona, where he became a tenured associate professor in 2015. In 2017, he moved to King’s College London, where he supervises diverse projects related to charge transport in biomolecules and bioelectricity. His group combines experimental approaches in molecular biology, magnetometry, and bioelectrochemistry to tackle cutting-edge research questions in BioMolecular Electronics.

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