ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7156-5939

GOOGLE SCHOLAR: María J. Mayoral

Dr. María José Mayoral is an Associate Professor-Tenure Track in the Department of Inorganic Chemistry at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She obtained her Ph.D. in Chemistry from UCM in 2009, carrying out her doctoral research on metal-containing liquid crystals and completing research stays in the United Kingdom and Portugal.

Between 2010 and 2013, she conducted postdoctoral research at the Institut für Organische Chemie and the Center for Nanosystems Chemistry at the University of Würzburg (Germany), in the groups of Professors Frank Würthner and G. Fernández. During this period, she specialized in supramolecular chemistry and the study of self-assembly processes driven by non-covalent interactions. Her research contributed to the development of novel metallo-supramolecular systems and to the understanding of cooperative supramolecular polymerization mechanisms.

She subsequently joined the group of Prof. David González-Rodríguez at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid through a research position associated with the ERC Starting Grant PROGRAM-NANO. Her work focused on the design of complex supramolecular architectures, including hydrogen-bonded macrocycles and self-assembled nanotubes, as well as on the application of FRET techniques to investigate molecular self-assembly processes.

In 2019, Dr. Mayoral obtained the Spanish I3 certification for research excellence and, since 2020, has been a permanent faculty member at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Her research lies at the interface of coordination chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, and functional molecular materials. Her scientific achievements have been recognized with three six-year research awards (Sexenios de Investigación) granted by ANECA, and she is accredited as Full Professor (Profesor Titular de Universidad). She is also actively involved in the training of young researchers through the supervision of undergraduate, master's, and doctoral research projects.