Rocio Ponce Ortiz is an Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Málaga. She received her BSc in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Chemistry at the same University in the field of Raman spectroscopy of organic semiconductors. Further research followed at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, USA, on the organic electronics field.
Her current research focuses on the study of organic materials with applications in electronics and photonics, combining physicochemical analyses with device fabrication and characterization. She has co-authored more than 80 original publications and has an H-index of 38.
She has received several awards, including the award L´Oréal-UNESCO “For Women in Science” in 2014 and the award of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry to the most talented young people (under the age of 40) in 2015.