Maria Vega Cañamares

CSIC

Dr. Maria Vega Cañamares is Tenured Scientist at the Institute of the Structure of Matter of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) since 2012. She got her Ph.D. in Chemistry at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Her doctoral research focused on the application of Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) to the study of natural dyes. Maria Vega was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Conservation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where she specialized on the analysis of dyed textiles by SERS. She held a second postdoctoral position at the City College of New York where she worked on the SERS analysis of synthetic dyes. During her career she has combined experimental work with the use of computational chemistry methods like Density Functional Theory (DFT). She uses DFT to simulate the vibrational spectrum of dyes to aid in the assignment of the vibrational normal modes. Currently, Maria Vega Cañamares is Researcher in CSIC - Instituto de Estructura de la Materia . She published 45 articles in SCI journals. Works in the area of Chemical Sciences with emphasis on Physical Chemistry. In his curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: SERS; Raman spectroscopy; DFT calculations; Dyes and Pigments; Nanoparticles.