Dr. Alfonso Ramón García Márquez

Personal Data:
	Date of Birth: Nationality:	April 19th Mexican

Contact:
	Address:	Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces Department of Colloid Chemistry Research Campus Potsdam-Golm 14424 Potsdam, Germany
	Phone:	+49(0)331/567-9517
	Fax:	+49(0)331/567-9502
	E-mail:	alfonso.garcia-marquez

Education:
	Present	Postdoctoral fellow: Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces. Potsdam, Germany.
	2009	Ph.D. Thesis defence: “Synthesis and characterization of elastomers and functional networks” approved. (April 28).
	2005 – 2008	Ph.D. (Materials Chemistry) Univérsité de Strasbourg (former Univérsité Louis Pasteur), Strasbourg France. (Scholarship given by National Council of Science and Technology (CONACyT), Mexico).
	2003-2005	M.Sc. in Chemistry (Organic Chemistry) from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (U.N.A.M.) Mexico.
	1997-2003	B.Sc. in Chemistry (Organic Chemistry) from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (U.N.A.M.) Mexico.
		Research Project Performed at at Dr. Marcos Martínez Group, Chemistry Institute (U.N.A.M): “Synthesis of Resorcin[4]arene Derivatives via Mannich Reaction” (September 2005).

Research:
	2005-2008	Ph. D. Thesis (3 years) in the Organic Materials’s group of Prof. Dr. D.Guillon. Institut de Physique et de Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France in the project: “Synthesis and Study of Main Chain Liquid-Crystalline Elastomers: Through the Visco-Elastic Actuators”.
	2003-2005	M. Sc Project (2 years): Research project performed in Dr. Marcos Martínez Group, Chemistry Institute U.N.A.M. in the project: “Synthesis of Resorcin[4]arene dendrimers ”.

Teaching:
	2007	Teacher’s Assistant of the practical course “Physical Measures” at I.U.T. Strasbourg, France.
	2003	Teaching Assistant on “Coordination Chemistry” on the program: “Teacher’s Formation” at the Chemistry Faculty, U.N.A.M. Mexico.
	1999-2000	Teacher Assistant of practical course “General Chemistry”. Chemistry Faculty, U.N.A.M. Mexico.

Research Topics:

• Synthesis and characterization of nanocomposites containing magnetic nanoparticles and studies of their properties. Hybrid actuators with multistimuli responses (temperature-Magnetic field).
• Electrospinning of sol-gel precursors for hierarchical nanocomposites.

Projects:

• Highly conductive Composites with “De Novo” synthesized particles.
• Metal Nitride nanowire precursors via electrospinning.
• Nanostructured thin layers via spin and dip coating methods.