Education

Miren Aguirre earned her B.Sc. in Chemistry from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in 2010. She spent 6 months at Lund University (Sweden) as Erasmus student. During these months she carried out a research project under the supervision of Dr. Ola Karlsson. She joined POLYMAT in 2010 and in September 2014 she got the PhD from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). During the PhD she spent 3 months in YKI, Surface Chemistry Institute (Stockholm) under the supervision of Dr. Marie Sjöberg and Dr. Anwar Ahniyaz.

Research

During her PreDoctoral studies her research was focused on the production and characterization of waterborne polymer/metal oxide nanocomposite dispersions for coating.

Her current research topics are more focused on the production of hydrophobic organic/inorganic hybrids.

Biobased and Degradable Polymer Dispersions

High Performance Polymers

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