Berta Gómez-Lor received her B.S. in Organic Chemistry in 1988 and obtained her Ph.D. degree in 1992 from the University of Santiago de Compostela under the supervision of Prof. Enrique Guitián Rivera.
After postdoctoral research at Sandoz Pharma, Basel, with Dr. Gideon Shapiro (1993–1994), and at the University of Illinois with Prof. Scott E. Denmark (1994), she joined the group of Prof. A. M. Echavarren at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). During this period, she gained extensive experience in synthetic organic chemistry and initiated her research in functional organic materials, including the development of fullerene-based systems that resulted in a publication in Nature.
In 2001, she obtained a Ramón y Cajal position at the Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM-CSIC). She became Tenured Scientist at CSIC in 2003 and was promoted to Senior Scientist in 2009.
Her research focuses on the synthesis and study of functional organic and supramolecular materials for applications in organic electronics, photonics, photocatalysis, and sensing. In particular, her work explores conjugated systems for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), organic photovoltaics (OPVs), and organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs), with special interest in the relationship between molecular organization and optoelectronic properties.
Over the years, she has established numerous national and international collaborations in the fields of organic electronics and functional materials, including a visiting professorship at Technische Universität Dresden in 2018.
Contact: bgl@icmm.csic.es
Berta Gómez-Lor has presented more than 70 contributions in national and international conferences, the most recent:
Invited Talk ”Dynamism in self-assembling discotic molecules: from flexible electronics to anticounterfeiting”.FaN Conference 2023″, 27 February-2 March 2023, Kloster Irsee, Germany
Invited Talk ”Benzothiadiazole-based luminescent stimuli-responsive materials”. XXV Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr 2021) 14-22 August, 2021, Praga.Czech Republic.
Oral Presentation ”Truxene-based Porous Polymers: Tuning their properties towards environmental remediation. 4th European Conference on Metal-Organic Frameworks and Porous Polymers (EuroMOF2021) 10-15 September 2021, 2021, Krakow.
Invited Talk ”Truxene-based semiconducting porous polymers as heterogeneous photocatalysts” Catalysis Talk 10 March 2021. Online Event. Organized by EuChemS, Young European Catalysis Network.
Invited Talk” Truxene-related self-assembling semiconductors: from materials to devices” Progress in Organic Optoelectronics and Energy Conversion December 2019, Malaga
Other Invited lectures at:
Institute of Wood Chemistry, Riga
University of Vigo
University of Burgos
University of La Coruña
Institute of Organic Chemistry /CSIC, Madrid
University of Málaga
Columbia University, New York
Universidad del Valle, Cali Colombia
Instituto “Enrique Moles” Oviedo
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
CIQUS of the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
IDM of the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
University of Bath
University of Malta
Technische Universität Dresden
Universidad de Popayán Colombia)
Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Barcelona
Universidad de Monastir (Tunez)
Materials Physics Center CFM San Sebastian
Université Gaston Berger, Saint-Louis Senegal
Universidad Cheikh-Anta-Diop, Dakar, Senegal
Organization of conferences:
4th International Conference on Interface Properties in Organic and Hybrid Electronic: Perspectives & Key Challenges IPOE 2024 (Barcelona 2024)
3rd International Conference on Interface Properties in Organic and Hybrid Electronic: Perspectives & Key Challenges IPOE2022 (Málaga 2022);
Microsymposium: Molecular Recognition and Crystal Engineering at ECM31 (Oviedo, 2018);
Microsymposium: Crystal Chemistry and Engineering at MISSCA 2016 (Tenerife, 2016).
Member of the evaluation panel or committee of:
Proyectos de COLCIENCIAS (Colombia) 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018
“Juan de la Cierva 2013”
“Ramon y Cajal” 2018
Proyectos MICINN 2011 and 2012
Proyectos MINECO 2015 (Chemistry Panel)
Prueba de concepto 2022 (Chemistry Panel)
CSIC evaluation committee of BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award 2019, 2020 and 2021
Arquímedes Certamen 2010, 2011 and 2012
Dr. B. Gómez-Lor is coauthor of 6 patents (three of them international patents)and Co-IP of a technological support contract with PROACMAN SPORT 2013 – 2021. She has been principal investigator of 15 competitive research projects (9 national, 3 regional and 3 international). She has supervised 7 master thesis and 8 PhD thesis, and 2 are currently under progress. She has published more than 90 original research papers, almost all of them in Q1, including 1 Nature, 4 Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2 JACS, 9 Chem. Mater., 7 Chem. Eur. J., 6 Chem. Commun., 2 Adv. Func. Mater… Her work has received more than 3800 citations and her h index is 34 (scopus).