Dr. Josué David Mota Morales Investigador Tit. A T.C. Dirección: Laboratorio de Polímeros, Centro de Física Aplicada y Tecnología Avanzada, UNAM Campus Juriquilla, Centro de Fisica Aplicada y Tecnologia Avanzada - UNAM, Blvd Juriquilla 3001, Col Jurica La Mesa, Juriquilla, Queretaro, Qro., C.P. 4510, Ciudad de México, México Código Postal: CFATA, UNAM, P.O. Box, 76000 Queretaro, Qro. Teléfono: +52 (55) +52 (442) 238 1138 Página personal | Blog | Calendario |
Josué David Mota-Morales is a Tenured Researcher at the Center of Applied Physics and Advanced Technology (Centro de Física Aplicada y Tecnología Avanzda, CFATA) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM), in Querétaro City, México (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8257-0709). He received a pharmaco-biology chemistry degree from the Autonomous University of Queretaro (UAQ) in 2005, an MSc degree in materials sciences from CINVESTAV in 2009, and a Ph.D. also from CINVESTAV in 2012. During his master’s studies, he spent a one-year stay at the Research Center for Applied Chemistry (Centro de Investigación en Química Aplicada, CIQA) in Coahuila, Mexico, and during the Ph.D. another year at the Institute of Materials Science of Madrid (Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, ICMM)-CSIC at Madrid, Spain, where he was introduced to the deep eutectic solvents field under the supervision of Prof. Francisco del Monte. After the Ph.D. completion, he spent six months as a postdoc at CINVESTAV and Universite du Maine-CNRS in Le Mans, France, working with the modification of polymers surface by plasma. In 2014 he received the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to work with drug delivery systems at Louisiana State University, USA under the guidence of Prof. John Pojman. In 2015 he joined the Center of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (Centro de Nanociencias y Nanotecnología, CNyN) of UNAM in Ensenada, Mexico, as CONACYT Researcher. He has co-authored over 65 scientific papers (H-index 27) and holds the level 2 of the national researchers’ system (SNII, of 3 max.) since 2021. He is a member of the Early Career Board of ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering and was honoted with the National University Distinction Award for Young Academics (RDUNJA) 2022 by UNAM in the area of research in Natural Sciences. His research currently focuses on the development of greener routes to synthesize polymeric materials and nanocomposites by taking advantage of strategies that involve deep-eutectic systems (DES). These include the basic understanding on the reactivity of monomers forming DES, free-radical and ring-opening polymerization of polymerizable DES, development of DES-based nonaqueous gel emulsions and their polymerization for macroporous polymers and nanocomposites preparation, valorization and processing of biopolymers and biomass through DES, development of biobased and transient eutectogels, and integration of nanomaterials to eutectogels for the new generation of iontronics.