Dr. Roberto Olayo Valles holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Universidad de Puerto Rico en Mayagüez, completed graduate studies in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota, and earned a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Iztapalapa.

His research focuses on the synthesis and characterization of nanostructured polymeric materials and magnetic nanomaterials with biomedical applications in drug delivery and tissue engineering. His primary research interests include plasma-deposited polymeric coatings, scaffolds for tissue regeneration, and magnetic field-activated drug delivery nanovectors. He works with block copolymers and biodegradable polymers such as chitosan, poly(lactic acid) (PLA), poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA), and polycaprolactone (PCL). For material characterization, he employs X-ray scattering techniques (WAXS/SAXS) and measures the specific absorption rate (SAR) of heat dissipated by magnetic nanoparticles under high-frequency alternating magnetic fields.

He advises theses and research projects in undergraduate and graduate programs in Physics, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering, contributing to high-level human resource training.