Marco Ovalle

Marco Ovalle is an Assistant Researcher at IMDEA Nanoscience, joining the institute in February 2025 as part of the Early Stage Researchers program. He is actively affiliated with the Systems Chemistry Laboratory, contributing to the institute's nanoscience research mission in Madrid, Spain.

His research centers on systems chemistry—an interdisciplinary field investigating emergent behaviors in complex chemical systems. This work bridges nanotechnology, self-organization principles, and molecular network engineering, with applications in synthetic biology and advanced materials science. The research emphasizes non-equilibrium dynamics and chemical information processing at the nanoscale.

Ovalle operates within the Systems Chemistry Laboratory, which focuses on decoding fundamental mechanisms of complexity in chemical systems. The lab explores how molecular interactions generate higher-order functions, with implications for developing adaptive nanomaterials and understanding prebiotic evolution.