Álvaro
Álvaro Martínez Camarena (Valencia, 1992) holds a PhD in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology from the Universitat de València and is a lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
He has previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Universities of Paris-Saclay, Strasbourg and Valencia, and has carried out temporary research stays at the Universities of Vienna, Florence and Catania. For his academic career he has received several awards such as the Extraordinary Degree Award (València, 2014) and the Fernando Pulidori International Award (Debrecen, Hungary, 2019). Álvaro also holds a master's degree in Journalism and Scientific Communication from the UNED. His research area is focused on the design of novel molecular systems with antioxidant activity, especially for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease.
As a disseminator, he has been awarded the XXVI European Prize for Scientific Dissemination Estudi General for his book "Oxygen: the intimate history of a common molecule" (2020), as well as with the Josep Martínez Bisbal Prize (2022). He is also a contributor to the popular science magazine Mètode and the podcast A Ciencia Cierta.