Senior Scientific Researcher of CSIC (Spanish National Research Council)
Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra (IACT)
CSIC- Universidad de Granada
Av. de las Palmeras, 4
18100-Armilla, Granada.
Tel. +34 958 46 04 51
E-mail: ci.sainz@csic.es
“Para disipar los terrores, esas tinieblas del espíritu, se necesita no de los rayos del sol ni de los trazos luminosos del día, sino del estudio racional de la naturaleza”
Lucrecio, De Rerum Natura, libro II, 54-60.
Biography
He obtained his degree in Chemistry at the Universidad Autonoma of Madrid, and his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in the Alcala de Henares University. After several years in research centres of the chemical and pharmaceutical industry and European centres, he moved to a CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) Institute in Granada, Spain. Since 2004 he is a permanent member of the Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra (IACT, CSIC-UGR). His research interests include organic−inorganic interatomic interactions in crystals and surface of solids, crystal growth, biomineralization, prebiotic chemistry, crystal polymorphism, self-organization in natural systems, and spectroscopy of organic molecules, crystal structures and minerals. His multidisciplinary research experience includes experimental work and atomistic calculations at a quantum-mechanical level and molecular dynamics simulations.