Dr. Juan Pedro Fernández Blázquez completed his Chemistry M.Sc. at the Complutense University of Madrid (2001), where he also got his Ph.D. for his dissertation entitled “Synthesis, phase transition, and orientation effect in liquid crystal polymers”, research performed in the Science and Polymer Technology Research Institute (ICTP-CSIC) in Madrid. After his Ph.D. he continued his work in ICTP-CSIC from 2006 to 2007. In 2008 he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the College of Engineering at Florida State University in Tallahassee. In 2009 he was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship by the Von Humboldt Foundation for his research in Max Planck Institut für Polymerforschung in Mainz, where he worked until at the end of 2011. Since 2011 he has developed his research at IMDEA Materials Institute. He has been an associate professor at the Carlos III University of Madrid since 2013.

During his 25-year career, Dr. Fernández Blázquez has published more than 90 articles in high-impact SCI journals in the field of polymers or materials. More than 80% of these articles are in Q1 journals, with more than 2000 citations (H index: 25). He has collaborated, and maintains scientific collaborations with, more than 15 international groups, from the US to China. He has participated in more than 50 conferences, serving as an invited, keynote or plenary speaker at ten of them.

He has supervised ten undergraduate or master’s theses and two doctoral theses, and is currently supervising another. He is a regular reviewer for SCI journals and actively collaborates with national and European evaluation agencies.