Dr. Ricardo Arpad Pérez Camargo

Ricardo Arpad Pérez Camargo is a Materials Engineer with an M.Sc. in Materials Engineering from Simón Bolívar University (Venezuela) and a Ph.D. in Applied Chemistry and Polymeric Materials from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU, Spain), where his doctoral thesis on polymer crystallization and morphology received the UPV/EHU Exceptional Ph.D. Thesis Award. Following his Ph.D., he joined the Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS, Beijing) through the prestigious President's International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI). During his four-year postdoctoral stay, he established an independent research line on polymer crystallization, secured competitive funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, and received the Young Scientists Award from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2021) and the Innovative Article Award from the Chinese Chemical Society (2023). In 2023, Ricardo returned to POLYMAT as an ADAGIO MSCA COFUND Fellow, where he expanded his research towards the processing of semicrystalline polymers through additive manufacturing. Since 2026, he has continued as a Postdoctoral Researcher at POLYMAT (UPV/EHU). His research focuses on the crystallization, structure, and processing of semicrystalline polymers, with particular emphasis on random copolymers, crystallization kinetics, molecular topology, biodegradable polymers, and structure–processing–property relationships. He combines advanced calorimetry, synchrotron X-ray scattering, spectroscopy, and microscopy to understand and control crystallization mechanisms in complex polymeric systems. He has co-authored more than 69 peer-reviewed publications, including 19 as first author and 17 as corresponding author, accumulating more than 2,300 citations (Google Scholar, h-index 27). In 2025, he was selected as an EPF Future Faculty/Researcher in Polymer Science and Engineering by the European Polymer Federation and Elsevier, recognizing his contributions and emerging leadership in polymer crystallization research.

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