- Categoría Profesional
- Personal permanente laboral
- Departamento
- Física de materiales
- Área de conocimiento
- Física aplicada
- Edificio
- Módulo 4
- Despacho
- 613
- Correo electrónico
- dirk.ortgies@uam.es
- Teléfono
- 91 497 6888
Curriculum Vitae
I was born in the north of Germany and obtained my Bachelor of Science (2006) and Master of Science (2008) in Chemistry with a focus on organic and medicinal chemistry from the Universität Leipzig. The first semester of my Master´s was spent as ERASMUS exchange student at the Universidad de Burgos in Spain.
I started my PhD studies in 2009 with a stay at Texas Tech University (Lubbock, TX, USA) but then moved to Montréal, QC Canada where my PhD thesis work was centered on the development of desulfinative palladium-catalyzed coupling reactions performed under the supervision of Prof. Pat Forgione in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Concordia University in Montréal. During my time as a PhD student at Concordia I was also elected twice as president of the chemistry graduate students and the graduate student representative in the departmental appraisal committee.
In 2014 I continued my international career as a postdoc in Spain in the interdisciplinary Nanomaterials for BioImaging Group at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), contributing as a chemist to a group of mainly physicists, biologist and medical researchers. During my Juan de la Cierva – Formación scholarship (2015 – 2017) I worked principally on the synthesis and characterization of hybrid nanostructures for multifunctional applications in imaging, sensing and therapy. In 2018 I was awarded a Sara Borrell Fellowship at the Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria (IRYCIS) Madrid with a focus on continuing the work with nanoparticles in a biomedical context, which also resulted in a collaboration with the French company BioSpace for testing and improving a commercial infrared imaging system. This fellowship also led to my first grant as principal investigator for the detection of hypoxia in biological tissues.
In 2020 I became assistant professor at the UAM´s Materials Physics Department, successfully continuing my work with luminescent nanomaterials for biomedical applications. From 2024 onwards I held a prestigious Ramón y Cajal Fellowship at the UAM and in February 2026 I was promoted to associate professor (PPL).