Prof. Andrónico David Neira Carrillo
University of Chile, Chile
Dr. Neira-Carrillo received an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry (1996) and a Ph.D. degree (2003) from the University of Concepción (Chile)/Sponsor by Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research of Mainz (MPI-P), working on “Synthesis and characterization of derived Polisiloxane - Polisilazane by Cationic Method. Precursors of Ceramic Materials and Dispertion-Mineralization Agents”. Through a DAAD fellowship, he spent 3 years at the MPI-P, where he worked with Prof. Gerhard Wegner. Currently, I have two Postdoc at the CIMAT (Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research in Materials) of the University of Chile and Max Planck Institute of Colloid and Interface Science and honorary research fellow at DAAD, Germany. I am author of 37 articles (35 ISI) and 10 Book´s chapter and 1 Patent No. WO2017075730A1 to National Institute of Property Industrial- INAPI. I have participated in 96 (35 national and 61 international) conferences with more than 140 presentations and I have received invitation to give 22 lectures. I have been involved in 30 projects acting as responsible researcher (14), principal researcher (1), assistant director (1) and co-researcher (14).
My main research is related to the “Synthesis of functionalized polymer materials and their biomedical applications”. Other lines associated are:
• Bio-related materials & Biomineralization
• Classical and non-classical crystallization (prenucleación) of inorganic materials
• Hybrid microparticles encapsulating and photothermal therapy
• Polymeric adjuvants for vaccines
• Micro and nano electrospun fibers by electrospinning. Synthesis, characterization and applications
I am Referee of ISI publications belonging to Elsevier, American Chemical Society (ACS), Springer, Wiley, Benham, American Scientific publishers, RSC publishing, Química Nova, among others. My research projects have been funded by Fondecyt, Ecos-Conicyt, Andes Foundation, VID of University of Chile and Fondef. I am currently involved in various projects such as Fondecyt, Fondef and Fondap (Advanced Center for Chronic Diseases) as principal investigator, co_director and associate researcher, respectively. I was funder member of Vaccimed S.A., 1st Spin–Off of the University of Chile, which is currently scaling-up several fermentation processes for vaccine and biological drug developing for veterinary industry. Nowadays, I am Director of Polyforms, which is the unique research-network at the University of Chile funded by Program U-Redes, Vice-presidency of Research and Development, University of Chile.