Nahir Vadra García is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Inorganic Chemistry at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), where she is a member of the research group Molecular and Polymeric Materials Based on Coordination Compounds. Her main research lines focus on the design and development of hybrid functional materials, combining supramolecular chemistry, liquid crystals, and coordination chemistry. Her work addresses the synthesis of organic–inorganic systems based on coordination compounds and polyoxometalates (POMs), with particular emphasis on luminescent and stimuli-responsive materials, with applications in sensors, electrochromic devices, and advanced materials.

Nahir Vadra García obtained her degree in Chemical Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) in 2016, where she subsequently completed her PhD in Chemistry (2021), focused on the design and characterisation of supramolecular systems and liquid crystalline polymers based on functionalised triphenylenes. During this period, she acquired a solid background in organic and inorganic synthesis, as well as in advanced structural and physicochemical characterisation techniques. In parallel with her research training, she developed extensive teaching experience over more than a decade in the Department of Inorganic, Analytical and Physical Chemistry at the University of Buenos Aires, where she was involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, as well as in student supervision and mentoring. After completing her PhD, she carried out a postdoctoral stay at INQUIMAE (CONICET, Argentina), where she worked on coordination materials with magnetic properties modulated by supramolecular organisation. At the same time, she initiated an active international research profile through research stays at Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań, Poland), where she expanded her research towards hybrid materials based on polyoxometalates and functional nanomaterials.

In 2024, she was awarded competitive funding as Principal Investigator through the SONATINA 8 programme of the National Science Centre (Poland), which enabled her to lead a project focused on the rational design of multifunctional materials based on polyoxometalates. During this period, she developed extensive expertise in the synthesis, functionalisation, and study of different types of POMs (Anderson, Wells–Dawson and Keggin), as well as in the preparation of hybrid materials with electrochromic, thermochromic, and luminescent properties. Within the framework of this project, she undertook a postdoctoral research stay at the Institute of Materials Science of Madrid (ICMM-CSIC), in the Supramolecular, Polymeric and Reticular Materials (SUPREMA) group, in collaboration with Dr Berta Gómez-Lor, where she continued developing part of the aforementioned project.

Her scientific output includes publications in high-impact international journals such as Coordination Chemistry Reviews, Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, Dalton Transactions, and European Polymer Journal, as well as contributions to international conferences and collaborations with research groups across Europe and Latin America.