Dr. María Rosa Aguilar received her PhD in chemistry from Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 2002 working on polymeric biomaterials. She has been postdoc at University of Brighton and performed scientific stays at UCL (UK), University of Washington (USA) and ESRF (France). She is Scientific Researcher of the CSIC at the Institute of Polymer Science and Technology (ICTP-CSIC), where she currently carries out her research activity. Her group works in two main research lines: synthesis and characterization of advanced delivery systems; and polymeric scaffolds for tissue engineering. Her work is strongly translational, bridging fundamental polymer science with clinical needs through close collaboration with medical device and pharmaceutical companies.
Dr. Aguilar has published more than 100 research papers and is editor of the two editions of the book “Smart Polymers and their Applications”.
Moreover, she is Deputy Scientific Director of CIBER-BBN, a national network of Excellence working on Biomaterials, Bioengineering and Nanomedicine; she is also member of the Governing Board and Treasurer of the Specialized Group of Polymers (GEP) from the Spanish Royal Society of Physics and Chemistry (RSEFQ); and member of the Governing Board of the Interdisciplinary Platform of CSIC for Sustainable Plastics towards a Circular Economy (SUSPLAST+).