I graduated in Chemistry at the University of Girona (UdG) in 1994, where I also pursued PhD studies in the group of Professor Llobet with a PhD grant from the Generalitat de Catalunya. Research work during my PhD involved scientific stays at Texas A&M under the supervision of late Prof D. Barton (June-December 1996), and in Basel at the group of Prof. A. Zuberbüehler (April-May 1998). After defending my PhD dissertation in February 1999, I moved to the group of Prof. L. Que, Jr, at the University of Minnesota. My work in Minneapolis was funded by a Postdoctoral Grant from Fundació La Caixa. In 2002 I returned to Girona with a Ramon I Cajal Fellowship, and become Professor of Inorganic Chemistry in April 2003. 

I became an independent group leader in January 2005. Since then, I am group leader at the IQCC (Bioinorganic and Supramolecular Chemistry Group, QBIS, www.udg.edu/qbis).

Current research work (since 2019) is supported by an ERC AdvGrant. 

Research interests

My research interest aims at the study of new molecules that have relevance in the fields of Bionorganic and/or Supramolecular Chemistry, to explore the chemistry of these molecules in challenging reactions, and to convert some of these molecules in useful tools for technological applications. I am also interested in bioinspired oxidation catalysis, developing small molecule transition metal catalysts as minimalistic models for oxygenase enzymes, for enantioselective transformations in strong C-H bonds.  

Keywords

Bioinorganic Chemistry, Catalysis, Oxidation, Supramolecular Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry