Aurora Jiménez joins the ESISNA group as a PhD researcher

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We have met Aurora Jiménez Rodríguez de Gortázar, a new PhD researcher who has recently joined the ICMM. She comes from Madrid and she will be working at the Interdisciplinary studies based on nanoscopic systems (ESISNA) group. She already knows the ESISNA group because she did her master's thesis there and she was so happy that she decided to pursuit her career there.  

What have you worked on so far?
 I've worked on a couple of projects mostly designing and integrating new lab equipment (designing the electronics for IR & visible light sensors mostly) and started working with graphene transistors on my Master's Thesis.

What will you work on? With whom?
I will keep on working on graphene sensors for biosensing applications with Irene Palacio and Jose Ignacio Martínez, in ESISNA, expanding on what I did on the master's. 

Why ICMM?
Electronics physics was my favourite subject in undergrad, and the complex experimental setups of ultra high vaccuum fascinated me from the first time I saw one. Also, since I have some interest on biology, a biosensing project using graphene transistors in which the work is splitted between the functionalization of the surface under UHV conditions, the characterization of the sensor on the BioLab, and some electronics work to shrink down and make portable the sensing system seemed right up my sleeve.

Also doing my master's thesis here only confirmed that I really liked the vibe of ESISNA as a group and wanted to stay here for my PhD.

And a personal touch: any hobbies? What would you like to contribute to the institute?
 I really enjoy cooking and some degree of horticulture (I keep a small orchard at my parents house in my village). I also really into cycling and hiking, knitting and crochet, analog photography and generally fixing up and restoring old machines.