Postdoc

Education

2012 – 2015	PhD degree in Applied Chemistry and Polymeric Materials. Faculty of Chemistry, Applied Chemistry Department, University of the Basque Country, Spain Thesis title: Systematic Studies on 3d-3d and 3d-4f Multimetallic Complexes with Interesting Magnetic and/or Luminescent Properties. Thesis title: Systematic Studies on 3d-3d and 3d-4f Multimetallic Complexes with Interesting Magnetic and/or Luminescent Properties.
2011 – 2012	Master´s degree in Applied Chemistry and Polymeric Materials. Faculty of Chemistry, University of the Basque Country, Spain
2006 – 2011	Bachelor in Chemistry. Faculty of Chemistry, University of the Basque Country, Spain

Previous positions

2016	Postdoctoral researcher in the Applied Chemistry Department of the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of the Basque Country, Spain

Publications

Author or co-author of 18 research papers published in refereed journals. 

Most significant publications

–       The effect of the disposition of coordinated oxygen atoms on the magnitude of the energy barrier for magnetization reversal in a family of linear trinuclear Zn-Dy-Zn complexes with a square-antiprism DyO₈ coordination sphere. I. Oyarzabal, A. Rodríguez-Diéguez, M. Barquín, J. M. Seco, E. Colacio, Dalton Trans., 2017, 46, 4278- 4286.

–       Rare earth anthracenedicarboxylate metal-organic frameworks: slow relaxation of magnetization of Nd³⁺, Gd³⁺, Dy³⁺, Er³⁺ and Yb³⁺ based materials. A. J. Calahorro, I. Oyarzabal, B. Fernández, J. M. Seco, T. Tian, D. Fairen-Jiménez, E. Colacio, A. Rodríguez-Diéguez. Dalton Trans., 2016, 45, 591-598.

–       Analysis of the role of peripheral ligands coordinated to Zn^II in enhancing the energy barrier in luminescent linear trinuclear Zn-Dy-Zn single-molecule magnets. J. P. Costes, S. Titos-Padilla, I. Oyarzabal, T. Gupta, C. Duhayon, G. Rajaraman, E. Colacio, Chem. Eur. J., 2015, 21, 15785-15796.

–       Increasing the effective energy barrier promoted by the change of a counteranion in a Zn-Dy-Zn SMM: slow relaxation via the second excited state. I. Oyarzabal, J. Ruiz, E. Ruiz, D. Aravena, J. M. Seco, E. Colacio, Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 12353-12356.

–    Rational electrostatic design of easy-axis magnetic anisotropy in a Zn^II-Dy^III-Zn^II single-molecule magnet with high energy barrier. I. Oyarzabal, J. Ruiz, J. M. Seco, M. Evangelisti, A. Camón, E. Ruiz, D. Aravena, E. Colacio.  Chem. Eur. J., 2014, 20, 14262-14269.