Professor María Antonia Señarís from CICA joins the Royal Academy of Sciences

Professor María Antonia Señarís Rodríguez, a member of the UDC Solids group at CICA, a centre that belongs to the CIGUS Network—an initiative promoted by the Xunta de Galicia that brings together institutions in the system that have demonstrated scientific excellence—has taken office as a Full Member of the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical, and Natural Sciences of Spain. During the ceremony, she delivered her inaugural lecture titled: “From Solid State Chemistry to Perovskites and Other Materials of Technological Interest.”

A Distinguished Career at UDC
Graduated in Chemistry from the University of Santiago de Compostela in 1988, she was a Fullbright postdoctoral fellow for two years at the Center for Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin (USA), working under the supervision of Professor John B. Goodenough, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019.
Her teaching and research career has primarily developed at the University of A Coruña (UDC), where she is a faculty member since 1994 and currently holds a position as Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, a title she has held since 2008. She is also the founder of the UDC Sólidos group at CICA, where she serves as one of its principal investigators. For over 30 years, she has been actively engaged in teaching, with a focus on introducing and delivering content in Solid State Chemistry and Materials as part of the Chemistry degree program (and more recently, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology).

Her research activities are entirely dedicated to the fields of Solid State Chemistry and Physics and Materials, with a distinct interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach. With extensive experience in synthesis, and especially in the characterization and study of new materials with significant (multi)functional properties (caloric, multiferroic, superconducting, magnetic, electronic, thermoelectric, etc.), she is particularly interested in establishing and rationalizing composition-structure-micro/nanostructure-property relationships for the design and development of new materials.