Merari Tumin Chevalier
Student
University of Mar del Plata
Argentina
Biography
Merari Tumin Chevalier has completed a 5 years degree in Chemistry from National University of Mar del Plata. Currently, she is working on her PhD thesis at the Research Institute in Materials Science and Technology (INTEMA)- CONICET (Argentina), particularly in the Group of Polymer Matrix Composite Materials led by Dra. Vera Alvarez. The goal of her work is to develop and study effective biopolymeric drug carriers. At the present time, she is doing a six month residence in the Polymer Science and Technology Institute (ICTP)-CSIC (Madrid) in order to acquire new knowledge regarding the preparation and characterization of polymeric nanoparticles.
Research Interest
Pharmaceutics and Novel Drug Delivery Systems