Leonor Chico

Leonor Chico is an Associate Professor at Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha and a Staff Scientist at the Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM-CSIC). Her research focuses on the physical properties of low-dimensional systems, particularly carbon-based materials like carbon nanotubes and graphene nanoribbons, as well as semiconductor nanowires. She investigates defects, symmetries, and their impacts on electronic/spin transport, with recent work emphasizing symmetry-driven spin-polarized transport via electric fields in carbon-based systems. These studies contribute to the field of spin-orbitronics.

Education includes a Ph.D. from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1993), followed by postdoctoral research at UC Berkeley. She held a research associate position at ICMM before joining Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (1999) and later returned to ICMM as a Staff Scientist (2008). In 2015, she obtained ANECA accreditation enabling her to pursue full professorship roles in Spanish universities.

No specific awards or grants are mentioned, but her work highlights contributions to nanoelectronics and spin-orbit interaction applications. She collaborates with institutions like ICMM-CSIC but no specific lab/teams are detailed.