AGUSTIN
GONZALEZ CREVILLEN

Agustín González Crevillén is assistant professor in the Department of Analytical Sciences at UNED since February 2023. He got a PhD in Analytical Chemistry in 2009 under the supervision of Prof. Alberto Escarpa (UAH). During this stage, he explored the use of carbon nanomaterials as electrochemical detectors for microchip electrophoresis. In addition, he did an international stay in the Center of Biosensors and Bioelectronics (Arizone State University, USA), under the supervision of Prof. Joseph Wang in 2007. He got experience in the characterization and synthesis of metallic nanomaterials. Then he was post-doctoral researcher in Prof. Diez-Masa’s research group (IQOG, CSIC) until 2013. He was working in the development of analytical methods for the separation and detection of proteins with clinical and food interest using microchip electrophoresis with laser induced fluorescence detection. Next, he was working in the pharmaceutical industry until 2016 when he joined UNED as associate professor. He joined to two research group: ELEQUIM from UNED, leading by Antonio Zapardiel Palenzuela; and MINYNANOTECH from UAH, leading by Prof. Escarpa. From 2016 until now, his research has been focused on the development of portable analytical systems for food analysis and for detecting disease biomarkers close to the point of care (point-of-care testing), by exploring two technologies: microfluidics (made of paper, polymer and/or glass) and disposable electrochemical sensors (3D-printed and screen-printed electrodes). From this period, a Spanish Patent was obtained (ES 2893261 B2, UAH/UNED property). This patent was awarded by UNED in “V Edición de los Premios UNED-Santander de Investigación, Transferencia del Conocimiento y Divulgación 2021”. Moreover, he did a stay in Martin Pumera’s group in 2020 (Centre for advanced functional nanorobots, University of Chemistry and Technology, Czech Republic), thanks to the fellowship for international mobility of young researchers “José Castillejo” (Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness). In fact, he has a stable collaboration with Martin Pumera along his career. During this stay, he was researching about the use of 3Dprinting technology for fabricating electrochemical sensors. More interestingly, this stay helped him to open a new research line in his group. During his scientific career, he has participated in 14 research projects granted by competitive national and regional programs. In addition, he was PI in one project from UNED (Independent thinking-young researcher program, UNED, 2019). Moreover, he has made 36 contributions to national and international conferences, among them, he was speaker at 6 (3 national and 3 international). On the other hand, he usually acts an evaluator for the Spanish National Research Agency and occasionally for the Argentina and Czeck Republic Research Agencies. In addition, he has reviewed articles in several journals (Microchim. acta, Talanta, J. Electroanal. Chem.), and he belongs to the panel reviewer member of RSC Advances journal. Moreover, he is the guest editor in a special collection of Analysis&Sensing journal (Carbon Nanomaterials for (Bio)Sensing) and he belongs to the editorial committee of Actualidad Analítica (Journal of the Sociedad Española de Química Analítica, SEQA). In sum, he is coauthored of 37 international peer-reviewed publications, 5 book chapters, 1 book in RSC publisher, and 1 patent (H-index 19, Scopus).