Dra. Natalia Martín Sabanés

Natalia Martín Sabanés obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Physics from the Autónoma University of Madrid in 2011 and her Master’s degree in Biomedical Physics in 2013. She completed her PhD in 2018 at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (Mainz, Germany), where she developed the first electrochemical tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (EC-TERS) setup in Europe under the supervision of Prof. Katrin Domke. She subsequently joined the Department of Physical Chemistry at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society (Berlin) as a postdoctoral researcher with Dr. Melanie Müller and Prof. Martin Wolf, where she developed a THz-gated ultrafast scanning tunneling microscope achieving record temporal resolution.

In 2020, she returned to Madrid as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at IMDEA Nanociencia, where she expanded her research to single-molecule force spectroscopy using optical tweezers under the supervision of Prof. Emilio Pérez. In 2024, she was awarded both a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship and a La Caixa Junior Leader Fellowship.

Her research focuses on the development of advanced hybrid instruments that integrate near-field spectroscopy and single-molecule techniques to investigate physicochemical processes with unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution. She has also established research lines on the advanced spectroscopic characterization of nanomaterials, particularly two-dimensional (2D) materials.