Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez

José Rubén Morones-Ramírez received his Ph. D. from the University of Texas at Austin and did his postdoctoral research at Boston University and Harvard University for four years in the areas of new antimicrobial development. He is now a Professor of Chemical Sciences in the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León and is currently the Director of the Research Center on Biotechnology and Nanotechnology of the School of Chemical Sciences at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León. His main line of research involves the use of nanobiotechnology towards the design and development of novel therapeutic agents against multidrug-resistant microbial pathogens.

Karla Juarez-Moreno received her PhD in Biotechnology from CICESE, after completing a Biology degree at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). During her doctoral studies, she was supported by the DAAD, the German Agency, to conduct research at the Institute of Immunology in Hamburg, Germany. She later carried out postdoctoral research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, funded by the Fulbright García-Robles Scholarship, and continued with a second postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Nanosciences and Nanotechnology (CNyN, UNAM). She is currently an Associated Researcher at the Center for Applied Physics and Advanced Technology (CFATA) at UNAM, in Juriquilla, Querétaro, Mexico. Her research focuses on Nanotoxicology, particularly the cellular and molecular responses to nanomaterials and the effects of commercial and incidental nanoparticles on different cell models. She is also interested in the biomedical applications of engineered metallic and metal oxide nanoparticles. She has co-authored over 60 scientific articles and is a Level 2 member of Mexico’s National System of Researchers (SNII).

Greco earned his Bachelor with Honors degree in Chemistry at the University of Zaragoza (Spain), and he studied Frustrated Lewis Pairs at the University of Münster (Germany). Greco received his Ph.D. from Stockholm University (Sweden) in mechanistic studies of homogeneous and heterogeneous catalytic systems. Later, he was a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Transformative bio-Molecules (ITbM) at Nagoya University (Japan), where his research focused on the synthesis of curved nanographenes. In Spring 2022, Greco joined the ACS Publications Division and is now the Managing Editor of the journals ACS Energy Letters, Energy & Fuels, Langmuir, and ACS Photonics, with responsibility over their strategic development and management.