Organisation

Research Support Division

Electron Microscopy Unit

Group leader: Belén Ballesteros

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Overview

Main research lines

  • Use of electron microscopy techniques for nanoscience and nanotechnology research and applications
  • Scientific-technical support for both internal ICN2 research groups and external scientists and companies
  • Study of the structure and chemistry of functional carbon nanotubes and graphene
  • Exploration of 2D layered inorganic nanotube systems
  • Electron microscopy studies of the interaction of nanomaterials and biological entities

Group leader

Ballesteros Pérez, Belén

Unit Leader

Dr Belén Ballesteros earned her degree in chemistry with honours at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 2001, going on to obtain her PhD in 2006 at the Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC).

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During her doctoral studies, she undertook research stays at various European universities, including the Universiteit Twente (Netherlands), Universitetet i Oslo (Norway), University of St Andrews (UK) and Universidad de la Laguna (Spain). In July 2006 she got a postdoctoral research position at the University of Oxford, where she worked in electron microscopy imaging and analysis of carbon nanotubes, inorganic nanotubes and related materials. She has been the head of the Electron Microscopy Unit at the ICN2 since April 2009.

Dr Ballesteros has authored 81 peer-reviewed articles with over 1800 citations.