Dra. Loreto Valenzuela - Research Center for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials

Associate Researcher
Engineering Faculty

Specialty: Polymer characterization, water absorption and degradation of biomaterials, surrogate modeling of polymer libraries, edible films, molecular dynamics simulations.

Industrial Civil Engineer, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Master in Engineering Science at the same University and PhD. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Currently, she works as an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Interest Areas

Electrospinning, Polymer characterization, water absorption and degradation of biomaterials, surrogate modeling of polymer libraries, edible films, molecular dynamics simulations.