Javier Reguera, PhD

Dr. Javier Reguera is an associate professor at the University of Valladolid (Spain). He received his M.S. degree in Physics and Ph.D. in Materials Science (2008) at the University of Valladolid, Spain, receiving the doctoral thesis extraordinary prize at the Univ. of Valladolid and the prize for the best doctoral thesis by the Spanish group of polymers. In 2009 J. Reguera was awarded a Fulbright fellow grant to perform a postdoctoral stay at MIT (USA) in the group of Prof. F. Stellacci. In 2011 J. Reguera moved to EPFL (Switzerland) where he contributed to the formation of a new research laboratory on surfaces and interfaces. In November 2014, J. Reguera was awarded an Ikerbasque fellow contract and started working at CIC biomaGUNE (Donostia, Spain) at the laboratory of Prof. Luis M. Liz-Marzán. In May 2019 he moved to BCMaterials (Leioa-Bilbao, Spain) and in 2024 to Universidad de Valladolid.

Dr. Reguera is the author of more than 60 publications, including articles in high-impact journals like Nat Chem, Nat Commun, Adv Mater, Nano Lett, Prog Polym Sci, J Am Chem Soc, or ACS Nano, among others. He has published 4 book chapters and acted as guest editor in several journals. He has participated in 33 research projects, 4 of them European, and he has been the PI of 3 National projects (MICIN, Retos). 

Dr. Reguera has noticeably contributed to several research areas, including smart materials with the development of multi-responsive smart protein polymers; self-assembly monolayers with the discovery of novel structures (such as those with Janus patchy configurations) on the curved nanoparticle surfaces; and finally on the formation of Janus nanoparticles made of multicomponent inorganic materials with important applications in biomedicine and environment. Of chief importance is the development of multicomponent Janus nanostars that can present simultaneously and synergistically optical, magnetic and/or electronic properties.

His current research lines are the design, synthesis, and characterization of multifunctional- multicomponent nanoparticles, the interaction among them and with interfaces (self-assembly), and their application in environmental remediation, sensing, and biomedicine, including in this last one,  multimodal imaging, multi-stimuli hyperthermia, pharmaceuticals monitoring, etc.