M. Ali Aboudzadeh

Dr. Ali Aboudzadeh received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Polymer Engineering from Amir Kabir University of Technology (AUT) and Iran Polymer & Petrochemical Institute (IPPI), respectively. In 2011, he moved to University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain, to do his PhD in Applied Chemistry and Polymer Materials under supervision of Prof. David Mecerreyes in POLYMAT. During his PhD, he spent 6 months internship at Institute for Frontier Materials-Deakin University, Australia under the supervision of Prof. Maria Forsyth. In the last year of PhD, he also did a one month stay in the group of Prof. Jairton Dupont in UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil.After a successful PhD defense in 2015, he did several postdoctoral fellowships in different institutes such as:- BioDonostia research center (2016), funded through a national project from ISCIII, where he was developing an economic, rapid and sensitive sensor to detect circulating DNA biomarkers associated with cancer.- POLYMAT (2017- mid 2018), funded through a Elkartek project focused on microencapsulation of natural antioxidants for food/pharmacy applications.- CFM – Materials Physics Center (mid 2018- 2020), funded through "Programa de apoyo a la Red guipuzcoana de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación, Gipuzkoa 2018", where he was investigating on cyclic polymer/gold nanoparticles hybrid materials for biomedical applications.- CNRS, IPREM institute, France (2021-2023), through a very prestigious competitive grant, Marie Curie standard fellowship, where his main research was on developing stable and versatile photo-active core-shell polymer nanoparticles via RAFT-mediated PISA.Dr. Aboudzadeh is an author/coauthor of more than 40 research articles and book chapters. He is also the main editor of two books both published by Springer Nature. Honors and awards2020. Marie Sklowdoska-Curie Individual Fellowship (grant 893426).2022. María Zambrano grants for the attraction of international talent. 2024. Ramón y Cajal Fellowship (2023 call, Start: SEP 2025) His research interests include polymer synthesis and characterization, supramolecular assemblies, rheology, sustainable food packaging materials and encapsulation of bioactive compounds.