Associate Professor

Montserrat Colilla was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1975. She studied Chemistry at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) and received her PhD degree there in 2004, after a predoctoral fellowship at Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (ICMM-CSIC). In 2005 she moved to the Department of Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry at Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), where she holds an Associate Professor position since 2011. She belongs to the Research Group Smart Biomaterials (GIBI) at UCM, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red: Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN) and Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Hospital 12 de Octubre i+12. She has developed postdoctoral national (Instituto de Catálisis y Petroleoquímica de Madrid (ICP), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)) and international (Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Centre National de la Reserche Scientifique-College de France) stays. Her teaching activities include different Chemistry subjects at the Pharmacy Bachelor Degree and the subject “Nanoparticles in Medicine” in the Universitary Master of Nanophysics and Advanced Materials. She has supervised different predoctoral, master and bachelor degree students. Since 2012 she is supervising a Doctoral Thesis in the topic “smart nanoparticles for antitumor therapy”. Her recent research activity is focused on the development of advanced nanosystems bsed in mesoporous silica nanoparticles for cancer treatment. She has also developed other research lines, including the synthesis and characterization of third generation bioceramics for bone tissue regeneration and the prevention of bone implant infections. She collaborates with research groups of recognized national and international scientific prestige, such as Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Hospital Universitario de la Paz, Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Centre National de la Reserche Scientifique-College de France, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, etc. It is worth of mention her participation in the Spanish and European Network of Excellence for the Prevention and Treatment of Osteoporotic Fractures (AGEING). As a result of her research activities, she has participated in 19 national and international research projects, she has made more than 40 contributions to international conferences and she has published 41 articles in international scientific journals submitted to peer review process (h=24, total number of received cites 1817, according to the Web of Science of Thomson Reuters), 7 book chapters, 2 handbooks and 1 book.