Dr. Rosario Fernández
Full professor at the University of Seville.
PhD degree in 1985 (University of Seville). Postdoctoral stage at the University of Paris-Sud (1986–1987). Associate Professor (1987) and then Full Professor (2008) at the University of Seville. Member of the Royal Sevillian Academy of Sciences, Member of the Spanish Research Agency (MICCIN), President of the Organic Chemistry Group of the RSEQ. Award for Research Excellence (RSEQ 2019), and FAMA Award to the research trajectory (University of Seville 2019).
Her research group is interested in new synthetic methodologies, enantioselective synthesis, asymmetric catalysis, organocatalysis, hydrazones, N-Heterocyclic carbenes, cross-coupling reactions, and C-H activation.
Twitter: @LassaFdezGroup.
Dr. Vicente Gotor-Fernández
University of Oviedo – Associate Professor.
Prof. Gotor-Fernández studied his Licenciature in Chemistry in the University of Oviedo (1992-1997), specializing in Organic Chemistry. In July 2001, he obtained his Doctorate in Chemistry working in the chemoenzymatic synthesis of vitamin D3 analogues. Then, he moved to the University of Edinburgh in 2002 a Marie Curie postdoctoral contract focusing on the development of chemoenzymatic deracemization processes of amines. After two years, he returned to the University of Oviedo where he received two competitive postdoctoral contracts (Juan de la Cierva 2005-2007 and Ramón y Cajal 2008-2012). In this time, he performed a short-term placement in the Universidade Federal do Ceará (Fortaleza, Brazil, 2009).
In June 2012, Prof. Gotor-Fernández became Associate Professor of the University of Oviedo inside the Organic Chemistry area of the Organic and Inorganic Chemistry Department. He is co-author of around 170 scientific contributions including research articles, reviews, chapter books and patents, mostly in the field of Biocatalysis and organic synthesis. His main current research interest involves the development of selective chemoenzymatic routes for the asymmetric synthesis of organic compounds using hydrolases, oxidoreductases and transferases, and the design of chemo- and multienzymatic concurrent processes paying special attention to the combination of enzymes with different metal species.
Twitter account: @gotorfernandez @bioorganicaUOVI.
Website: https://bioorganica.grupos.uniovi.es/en/inicio
Dr. Martín Fañanás-Mastral
CiQUS-University of Santiago de Compostela – Associate Professor
Prof. Fañanás-Mastral received his Ph.D. from the University of Oviedo under the supervision of Prof. José Barluenga and Prof. Fernando Aznar, in 2007. He performed a predoctoral stay at the group of Prof. Steven Ley at the University of Cambridge (UK). In 2009 he joined the group of Prof. Ben L. Feringa at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2014 he moved to CiQUS, at the University of Santiago de Compostela, as Ramón y Cajal fellow. In 2020 he was promoted to Associate Professor. He has been awarded the “Thieme Chemistry Journal Award” (2015), the “RSEQ-Sigma Aldrich Young Researchers Award” (2016), and the “RSEQ-Lilly Young Researcher Award” (2018). In 2019, he received an ERC-Consolidator Grant.
Prof. Fañanás-Mastral leads a research group at CiQUS and his research is based on the development of novel transition metal catalyzed reactions that allow to perform highly atom-efficient and sustainable transformations oriented towards enantioselective C-C bond formation, alkane functionalization, and synthesis of biologically active compounds.
Twitter account: @mfananasmastral.
Group website: https://fananasmastralgroup.com/.
Dr. Jose L. Vicario
University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) – Full Professor
Jose L. Vicario was born in Spain in 1973. He graduated in Chemistry from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in 1997 and finished undergraduate studies as Erasmus student under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Gerard van Koten at Utrecht University. Afterwards, he received his PhD in 2000 in the University of the Basque Country (Thesis directors: Prof. Dr. M. Dolores Badía and Prof. Dr. Esther Domínguez). After postdoctoral studies in 2002 at the RWTH Aachen (Germany) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Dieter Enders, he returned to UPV/EHU as Associate Professor and was promoted to full professor in May 2016 where he started his independent career in 2006. He is recipient of the “Lilly Lecture Award” in 2009, granted by the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry and Lilly and in 2016 he was awarded with the “Ignacio Ribas” medal by the Organic Chemistry division of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry.
Current research interests of our group deal with the design of new methodologies in asymmetric synthesis, particularly focused on asymmetric organocatalysis, and the stereocontrolled synthesis of pharmacologically active compounds and natural products.
Twitter account: @JoseLVicario1.
Website: http://ww.ehu.es/gsa
Dr. Manuel Alcarazo
Georg August Universität Göttingen – Full Professor
2005 PhD in Chemistry at the Instituto de Investigaciones Químicas (CSIC)/University of Seville, (ES). Supervisors: Prof. Dr. José M. Lassaletta/Prof. Dr. Rosario Fernández. 2006 – 2008 Postdoctoral Research Associate with Prof. Dr. Alois Fürstner at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim an der Ruhr (DE). 2009 – 2015 Group Leader; at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung; Mülheim an der Ruhr (DE). Since 2015 Full Professor at the Institut für Organische und Biomolekulare Chemie, University of Göttingen, DE.
Awards:
2017 – ERC Consolidator Grant SULFOSOL. Grant agreement ID: 771295;
2015 – 2018 Student’s Association award for excellence in teaching (Univ. of Göttingen, four times);
2014 Chemistry-Prize from the Academy of Science of Göttingen;
2013 Dozenten-Prize from the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie;
2013 Prize for young researchers from the Academy of Science of Westphalia;
2012 ADUC-Prize for Habilitands from the German Society of Chemistry (GDCh);
2011 ERC Starting Grant. FRUSTRATED HYDROGEN. Grant agreement ID: 277963;
2011 Sigma-Aldrich-RSEQ Prize for young researchers.
His research group is interested in mainly three areas of research:
-The development of efficient methodologies for the highly enantioselective synthesis of helicenes, as well as heterohelicenes;
-The use of sulfonium salts as alternative platforms to the well-stablished hypervalent I(III) reagents;
-The design of organocatalysts based on element-ligand cooperation.
Group website: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/manuel+alcarazo/569046.html
Dr. Aitziber L. Cortajarena
CIC biomaGUNE, Spain. Ikerbasque Research Professor / Scientific Director
Prof. Cortajarena completed her Ph.D. in Biochemistry at the University of the Basque Country (Spain) and held a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University. Currently, she is Ikerbasque Prof. and Scientific Director of CIC biomaGUNE, leading the Biomolecular Nanotechnology Lab. She has published around 100 articles cited and has obtained several European grants, including an ERC Consolidator, ERC-PoC, and four FET-Open.
Her research group focuses on protein engineering toward the generation of functional nanostructures and bioinspired materials for applications in biotechnology and biomedicine, including catalysis, imaging, advanced therapies, sensing, bioelectronics and lighting among others. The main research lines are focused on the development of versatile platforms based on biomolecules and cover from the fundamental development of protein-based tools to the validation of biomolecule-based technologies in biomedical and technological applications.
Twitter account: @BioMolNano_bmG.
Website: http://personal.cicbiomagune.es/alcortajarena/index.php
Dr. Fernando P. Cossío
University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) – Full Professor of Organic Chemistry
Professor Fernando P. Cossío obtained his PhD in 1986 at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) under the supervision of Prof. Claudio Palomo. From 1987 to 1988 he carried out a postdoctoral stay with Prof. Jean-Paul Picard at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Talence (France). In 1993 he was a visiting scholar at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA, USA) in the group of Prof. Kendall N. Houk. He has been Vice-Rector for Research and International Relations (2001-2004) of the UPV/EHU. Since 2009 he has been appointed Scientific Director of Ikerbasque, the Basque Foundation for the Advancement of Science. Throughout his scientific career, he has received, among other distinctions, the following academic awards: Ignacio Rivas Award, granted by the group of Organic Chemistry of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (2011). Janssen- Cilag Prize in Organic Chemistry (2013), Special Research Prize of the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences of Zaragoza (2016). In 2020 he received the Medal of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry, and joined the Chemistry Europe Fellows class of 2020/21.
His research interests include different aspects of medicinal chemistry (design, chemical synthesis and validation of inhibitors of epigenetic enzymes), physical and computational chemistry (study of reaction mechanisms) and, more recently, the interface between supramolecular chemistry and particle physics (neutrinoless double beta decay nuclear reactions).
Twitter account: @CossioFp.
Group website: https://www.ehu.eus/es/web/qbmm/hasiera
