Graduated in Chemistry at the Univ. of Zaragoza, she obtained her PhD at the Univ. of Valladolid in 1989. She worked for two years as a Fulbright postdoctoral fellow at Yale University (USA).
She rejoined the UVa in 1991 and since 2007 she has been Professor of Inorganic Chemistry. Research interests: Development and mechanistic study of new metal-catalysed reactions and use of novel polymers as a support for a more sustainable chemical synthesis. Author of some 80 original research papers, encyclopaedic reference works and patents. ChemPubSoc-Europe Fellow, she is currently a member of the Editorial Board of EurJIC and the Int. Advisory Board of Organometallics.
She chairs the Organometallic Q. Specialist Group (RSEQ). She has been ANEP Chemistry Coordinator (2012-15).
He is a native of Ribadesella (Asturias). He studied a degree in Chemistry at the University of Oviedo, specialising in Inorganic Chemistry, and obtained his PhD at the same university in the laboratory of Prof. Víctor Riera in 2001.
He spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Robert Angelici, first at Iowa State University and then at the Ames Lab, both in Ames (Iowa, USA). In 2004 he was hired as director of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) division for Spain and Portugal by the company Varian Inc.
In 2006 he joined the University of Valladolid with a Ramón y Cajal contract, where he now holds the position of Associate Professor in the Department of Inorganic Chemistry. His current research interests focus on the study of supramolecular interactions both in the case of nanographic sensors and molecular motors.
Professor of Organic Chemistry. Degree in Chemical Sciences (Extraordinary Degree Award), University of Valladolid, 1984.
PhD in Chemical Sciences (Extraordinary Doctorate Award) under the supervision of Prof. Ángel Alberola, University of Valladolid, 1989. Postdoctoral stay (MEC/MRT fellow, 1 year) in the group of Prof. Guy Solladié, University of Strasbourg (France).
Reinstated at the University of Valladolid in 1991 and linked to it since then, currently as Professor. Director of the Consolidated Research Unit (UIC 184) of the JCYL.
Degree in Chemistry: University of Valladolid, 1981. PhD: University of Valladolid, 1986. Assistant Professor: University of Valladolid 1984-1989. Associate Professor: University of Valladolid 1989-1991.
Associate Professor: University of Valladolid 1991-1993. Full University Lecturer: University of Valladolid 1993-2010. University Professor: University of Valladolid since 2010. Author of 64 articles and one book chapter. 7 doctoral theses. 8 Patents.
Invited lecturer at XXII Biennial Meeting of Organic Chemistry R.S.E.Q.
Degree in Science (Chemistry, 1987) and PhD in Science (Chemistry, 1993), thesis supervisor: Pablo Espinet. Extraordinary doctorate prize in the Faculty of Science (Chemistry).
Stays at the University of Sheffield (Great Britain) in the group of Professor P. Maitlis and at the University of Zaragoza in the group of Professor J. L. Serrano during the PhD period. Postdoctoral stay of 2 years in the research group of Prof. Ernesto Carmona at the University of Seville. Linked to the School of Industrial Engineering of the University of Valladolid since 1992, being Associate Professor since 2007.
Member of the Liquid Crystals and New Materials Group of the IU CINQUIMA of the University of Valladolid.
Manuel Bardají was born in Zaragoza. He studied Chemistry at the University of Zaragoza (1985-1990), defended his PhD Thesis in 1994 in Inorganic Chemistry at the Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Aragón (ICMA).
Stays (6 months) at the School of Chemistry University of Bristol (UK) and at the Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination (CNRS) of Toulouse (France) for 2 years. He returned for 6 years to the Dept. of Inorganic Chemistry at ICMA. Since 2002 he is Full Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Faculty of Science of the University of Valladolid.
His research has focused on complexes of gold and other metals that can exhibit liquid crystal behaviour and possess additional interesting properties such as: luminescence, photosensitivity.
Camino Bartolomé graduated in Chemistry at the University of Valladolid in 1993.
His doctoral thesis, which focused on the study of palladium complexes with fluoromesityl, was supervised by Prof. Pablo Espinet and Prof. Fernando Villafañe and defended in 2001. In 2002 he spent 14 months as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Ulm with Prof. Bernhard Rieger, enjoying a contract linked to a Bayer Polymers project.
She subsequently rejoined Prof. Espinet's group. In 2008 she obtained a position as Contratada Doctora and in 2016 as Profesora Titular de Universidad.
Silverio Coco was born in Castronuño (Valladolid, Spain) in 1960. He studied Chemistry at the University of Valladolid and defended his PhD Thesis in Chemistry at the same university in 1989 (directors Pablo Espinet and Fernando Mayor).
He joined Prof. Pierre Braunstein's group at the Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg for thirteen months (1990-1991). He returned to Valladolid as Assistant Professor in November 1991. In 1996 he was promoted to Full Professor and in 2012 to Professor of Inorganic Chemistry.
He is currently the coordinator of the Liquid Crystals and New Materials Research Group at UVa. His research studies have focused on the chemistry of materials: nanoparticles, liquid crystals, Langmuir films, luminescent materials.
Juan A. Casares was born in 1961 in León (Spain) and studied chemistry at the University of Valladolid. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1992 under the supervision of Prof. Pablo Espinet, and in 1995 he moved to ISSECC (CNR) in Florence, Italy, for a postdoctoral stay.
In 1996 he joined the Faculty of Science at the University of Valladolid, where he has been a professor since 1997 and a full professor since 2012. His research studies include dynamic NMR spectroscopy of square planar complexes and on catalysis of hydrogenation, alkyne silylformylation, polymerisation, and cross-coupling reactions.
His current focus is on the study of copper-palladium catalysed cross-coupling reaction mechanisms and the development of new multi-metal catalytic systems.
Raúl García Rodríguez did his PhD Thesis 'carbon-carbon coupling and functionalisation of amino acids and peptides in complexes with iminopyridine ligands and group 6 and 7 metals' at the University of Valladolid, under the supervision of Daniel Miguel San José and Celedonio Álvarez.
He then spent a postdoctoral stay at the University of Pittsburgh with a Ramón Areces grant in Haitao Liu's group, studying the synthesis of semiconductor nanocrystals, mainly CdSe. After this stay, Raúl joined Dominic Wright's group at the University of Cambridge with a Marie Curie IEF fellowship, where he focused his research on the chemistry of representative elements, mainly on the synthesis of tris-pyridyl metal ligands and cyclophosphazanes.
Raúl currently holds a Ramón y Cajal contract in the Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Valladolid.
Degree in Chemistry in 1990 and PhD in Chemistry from the University of Valladolid in 1996.
I did a postdoctoral stay in the Bioorganics laboratory of Prof. Gotor Santamaría at the University of Oviedo. I started my relationship with the University of Valladolid as Assistant Lecturer at the University School in 1991, and after several contracts, since 2005 I have been an Associate Professor.
I joined the Asymmetric Synthesis Research Group in 2001 and since then I have participated in several research projects and published in prestigious international journals. Interests: Development of new chiral organocatalysts supported on materials of different nature and study of their application in enantioselective cascade processes.
Jose Miguel Martín was born in Valladolid, Spain. During his PhD he worked on liquid crystals and nonlinear optical materials under the direction of Prof. Pablo Espinet and Prof. Silverio Coco.
He obtained his PhD degree from the University of Valladolid in 1996 and did a postdoctoral stay in 1998 at the University of Utah with John Gladysz. He obtained the position of Full Professor at the University of Valladolid in 2001 and joined Prof. Daniel Miguel's group in 2005.
His research interests are the synthesis of new materials with improved properties, the determination of new structures by X-ray diffraction and theoretical calculations.
My lines of research are as follows: Group 10 metal compounds with haloaryls and other organic radicals: Structural and mechanistic studies and their application in catalytic processes (olefin polymerisation, Stille reaction and others).
Addition reactions of organocynes to fluoroalkylketones: Study of reaction mechanisms and enantioselective applications (with a European patent). Development of catalysts for difficult coupling with emphasis on the preparation of ligands that, once coordinated, facilitate the reductive elimination of organic fragments that are difficult to couple.
Preparation of high porosity materials for use in separation processes and for hosting confined catalysts (including nanoparticles).
Jesús A. Miguel, born in 1956 in La Horra (Burgos), obtained a degree in Chemistry at the University of Valladolid (1979) and a PhD at the University of Oviedo (1988), under the supervision of Víctor Riera and Daniel Miguel.
I did a postdoctoral stay (1989-90) in the group of Peter M. Maitlis, in Sheffield, rejoining the University of Valladolid where I am currently a University Professor.
His research focuses on obtaining low-cost monomer-derived materials that can anchor catalysts in the internal areas of high porosity materials, studying their possibilities as catalysts, and as fillers to prepare mixed matrix membranes for gas separation applications.
Graduated in Chemistry between 1974 and 1979 from the University of Valladolid. He worked as an assistant lecturer in the Department of Inorganic Chemistry and completed his doctoral thesis in Valladolid and Oviedo, presenting it in the latter city in 1984, where he worked as an assistant lecturer. During the 1985-86 academic year, he spent a postdoctoral stay at the University of Bristol (Fleming_British Council scholarship holder). In 1987, he returned to Spain, where he was Full Professor at the University of Oviedo. In 1996, he returned to the University of Valladolid as Full Professor, and since 2002 he has been University Professor in the Department of Inorganic Chemistry.
Internationally, he made short stays at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris (1988) and at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (2001); in 2001 he was a visiting professor at the Nankai University in Tianjin (China). He is the author of more than 180 papers in indexed international journals and numerous conference papers. In addition, he has supervised thirteen doctoral theses and is coordinator of the GIR-MIOMeT at UVa. He has been a member of the CHEM Chemistry Panel of the PEOPLE H2020 Programme (Marie Curie IIF-IEF-IOF Actions) (2007-2020).
He has held, among other positions: Secretary of the Department (1993-96). Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Science (1997-2000). Secretary and Chairman of the Board of the Chemistry Section (2000-2006). Director of the Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry (2004-2006). Vice-Rector for Development and Innovation (2006-2010). Director of the Science Park (2006-2010) and Rector (2014-2018) of the University of Valladolid.
Degree in Chemistry in 1990 and PhD in Chemistry from the University of Valladolid in 1996. In 1997 I did a two and a half year post-doctoral stay at La Dargoire Research Center (Bayer CropScience) in Lyon, France with a Marie Curie contract from the European Commission.
I returned to the University of Valladolid in 2000 with another Marie Curie contract and in 2003 I obtained a position in the Ramón y Cajal Programme. From 2008 to 2019 I held a position as Profesor Contratado Doctor at the University of Valladolid and since April 2019 as Profesor Titular de Universidad. Author of more than 30 scientific publications, 22 of which in the Q1 quartile, 2 international patents and a book chapter.
Four research periods (sexenios) recognised by the CNEAI. H index in Web of Science of 15 and in Scopus of 16.
Fernando Villafañez was born in Valladolid, Spain. His first job as a chemist was at Maybridge Chemical Co. Ltd., Tintagel (Cornwall, UK) for two summers in 1981 and 1982, synthesising organic compounds of pharmacological interest. He received his PhD from the University of Valladolid in 1989 after working on bis(diphenylphosphino)methane complexes linking dimolybdenum complexes under the supervision of Prof. Victor Riera and Prof. Miguel A. Ruiz (University of Oviedo).
After a postdoctoral stay as a Fulbright scholar studying thiolate bridge complexes at MIT (Cambridge, USA) with Prof. Dietmar Seyferth, he returned to Valladolid. Here he was appointed "Profesor Titular" in 1993, and joined Prof. Pablo Espinet's group working on polypyridyl molybdenum complexes and fluoromesitil palladium-gold complexes. He joined Prof. Daniel Miguel's group in 1999. His research interests include different aspects of transition metal chemistry, such as complexes containing pyrazoles or ligands containing pyrazole fragments, cyclopalladium complexes containing silicon (in collaboration with Prof. Carsten Strohmann, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany), or transition metal organometallic complexes (in collaboration with Prof. Michael Knorr, Université de Franche-Comté, France). He has had short stays at the Universities of Bristol (UK), Würzburg (Germany) and Franche-Comté (France).
He was Dean of the Faculty of Science (Faculty of Science, University of Valladolid, (http://www.cie.uva.es/) from 2008 to 2016. Since February 2011 he is president of the Association of Chemists of Castilla y León (http://www.quimicoscyl.org/). In September 2009 he was accredited as Profesor Titular ("Catedrático") and obtained the chair in 2016.
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