Director of CEL and Associate Professor in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Valencia. Graduated in Chemistry at the University of Sevilla in 2004 (“Premio Extraordinario” and “Segundo Premio Nacional”) and obtained his PhD in 2007 at the University of Sheffield (UK). He joined the Institute of Molecular Science (ICMol) in 2009, first as a Juan de la Cierva fellow and then as a Ramón y Cajal fellow (selected nº 1 in Chemistry, 2013). He initiated a new research line on magnetic coordination polymers with dynamic behaviour, which he is currently developing with an ERC-Consolidator Grant (2016). He leads one of the strategic research lines (Metal-Organic Frameworks) of the Maria de Maeztu scientific programme as a “garante” researcher. Guillermo has received international awards such as the “Ludo Frevel Crystallography Scolarship Award” in 2007, from the International Centre for Diffracton Data (only European awardee in 2007); the Gold Medal of the “European Young Chemist Award” in 2008; and the “Dalton Young Research Award” from Royal Society of Chemistry in 2009; and national awards such as the “Premio Fundación Princesa de Girona en Investigación Científica 2018”, “Premio Jóvenes Investigadores RSEQ 2016”, “Premio Científico-Técnico Ciudad de Algemesí 2016”, “Premio Andaluces del Futuro 2016”, “Premio Talento Joven CV 2013”, “Premio Xavier Solans 2011” from the RSEQ and the “Premio para Investigadores Jóvenes 2010” from the Real Academia Sevillana de Ciencias. In 2013, he was selected worldwide to attend the prestigious 63^rd Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau (Germany).

Director of CEL and Ramón y Cajal Researcher. Graduated in Chemistry (2007) and MSc in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (2009) from University of Valencia. Obtained her PhD (cum Laude, FPU) in 2013 at the ICMol in Prof. Eugenio Coronado's group in the field of molecular magnetism. In 2014 she joined Prof. Christian Serre’s group at the Institut Lavoisier de Versailles (France) to study the biomedical use of MOFs. In 2015, she gained a Marie-Sklodowska Curie Individual Fellowship to work at the Institut des Matériaux Poreux de Paris (France) to develop catalytic heterometallic MOFs. In 2018 she joined the ICMol with an awarded Juan de la Cierva Incorporation Fellowship (ranked 1^st in Chemistry) and initiated her independent career in 2019 after being appointed Junior Leader Incoming Fellow from La Caixa Foundation and Ramón y Cajal Researcher in 2020. Dr. Giménez Marqués has received several distinctions such as attending the 67^th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (2017), and awards such as “Premio Talento Joven CV” (2019), “Premio Científico-Técnico Ciudad de Algemesí” (2019) and the “Young Researcher Award” by the Real Sociedad Española de Química (2021).

Juan de la Cierva Incorporación Researcher. Graduated in Chemistry by the University of Alcalá (2010-2014), with the final year in Trinity College Dublin (2013-2014). Isabel obtained a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Glasgow, Scotland (2014-2018) under the supervision of Prof. Forgan. In 2019 Isabel was granted a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (2019-2021) to continue her research at ICMol, where she is now a Juan de la Cierva Incorporación Postdoctoral Fellow. Isabel's research in the CEL group is based in the design, synthesis and characterization of multi-functionalized MOFs for environmental and healthcare applications.

Margarita Salas Researcher. Eduardo studied Chemical Engineering (environmental track) in University of Zaragoza (2013; Spain), and obtained his PhD degree in TU Delft (2019; The Netherlands). Currently, he continues his scientific career at ICMol (University of Valencia), with the support of a Juan de la Cierva (formación) grant. His research focuses on adsorptive gas separation.

APOSTD postdoctoral Fellow. She graduated as Chemist at Complutense University of Madrid (2013) and obtained MScs in Organic Chemistry and Education (2014, 2019). After her PhD in Prof. Martínez Mañez’s group (2021) in molecular recognition and sensing, nanotechnology and drug delivery. As part of the CEL group she is interested in different therapeutic uses of MOFs.

Postdoctoral Researcher. Jana obtained a German state diploma for teaching in Mathematics, Chemistry and English from the University of Freiburg (2016) and received her PhD from Sorbonne University in Paris (2021) in the field of molecular chemistry, particularly in cyanide based cubic molecular switches with redox behaviour. Jana’s interests in the CEL group focus on the industrial implementation of MOF materials.

PhD student. Graduated in Chemistry (2015) and MSc in Molecular Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (2016) by the University of Valencia. Mª Eugenia develops her PhD between CEL and UIMM groups at ICMol and she is interested in organic and metal-organic synthesis.

PhD student. Graduated in Chemistry in Universidade da Coruña (2016). In 2017 she obtained her MSc in Molecular Nanoscience & Nanotechnology from Universitat de València. She is currently working on the preparation of MOF-based composites for food safety applications.

PhD student. Luis graduated in Chemistry at the University of Castilla La Mancha (2018). After obtaining his MSc in Molecular Nanoscience & Nanotechnology in 2019 at the University of València, he is developing a PhD in the synthesis and characterization of new melting MOFs and coordination polymers for gas adsorption.

PhD student. She obatained a Bachelor in Chemistry at University of Valencia (2018) and a MSc in Nanocience and Nanotecnology in ICMol (2019). She is currently interested in the design and characterization of HOFs and MOFs with electrical properties.

PhD student. He graduated in Biotechnology (2019) and obtained a MSc in Molecular Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (2020) at Universitat de València. He currently develops his PhD studies focused on the synthesis and characterization of biomolecule-MOF conjugates for biomedical and biotechnological applications.

PhD student. He graduated with a MSc in molecular and supramolecular Chemistry at the University of Strasbourg (2019) and an engineer degree in organic, analytical, materials chemistry and polymers at the ECPM (University of Strasbourg, 2020). His research is focused on the preparation of nanohybrid MOF heterostructures.

PhD student. He obtained his Bachelor in Chemistry at University of Valencia (2020) and a MSc in Molecular Nanocience and Nanotecnology in ICMol (2021). His PhD focuses on the design, synthesis and characterization of TTF-based conductive MOFs.

PhD student. He graduated in Chemistry (2019) and obtained a MSc in Chemistry (2021) at Universidad de Concepción (Chile). He is interested in organic and metal-organic synthesis.

MSc student in Molecular Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at ICMol. He obtained a BSc in Chemistry at the University of Valencia (2022). His research is focused on gas separation with MOFs.

MSc student in Molecular Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at ICMol. He obtained his Bachelor degree in Biochemistry at the UC Leuven (Belgium) after a traineeship at the University of the Basque Country (2022). He is currently researching the preparation of MOF based biocomposites to study their use in biotechnological processes.

Undergraduate student. He is currently doing the Bachelor thesis at ICMol, focused on post-synthetic functionalization of MOFs.

MSc student. She is a Master student from the École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay in France. She is conducting a predoctoral research project of 9 months in the CEL group devoted to the preparation of solution-processable MOPs.