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Hi! I’m Isabel del Castillo Velilla, and I’m from Madrid and Sigüenza, Spain
During high school, I discovered chemistry as a subject and really liked it. The idea of not working in an office all day was very appealing. At the same time, I was very interested in going abroad, and France had always been a place I wanted to experience. For this reason, I chose to pursue my studies in Chemistry through an international double degree programme between the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM, Spain) and L’École Européenne de Chimie, Polymères et Matériaux (ECPM)-Université de Strasbourg (France).
Since I really liked working in the lab and enjoyed the research experiences I had, I decided to pursue a PhD to specialise in a specific field at UAM. My doctoral thesis focused on the study of porous materials using advanced characterisation techniques, particularly metal‑ and covalent‑organic frameworks (MOFs and COFs), with the aim of improving their processability by preparing composites for sustainable applications such as water remediation and gas adsorption. During my PhD, I carried out two research stays abroad: at the University of Cambridge, in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, and at Kyoto University, at iCeMS.
Currently, I’m a Research Associate at Imperial College London. Building on the research line of my PhD, my work here focuses on the use of advanced characterisation techniques, such as electron pair distribution function analysis using transmission electron microscopy, for the interfacial study of MOF composites.
