
Research Associate
Biography
I was born in a small, but charming, town in the northwest of Spain (Cambados, region of Galicia) and I received my BSc (2013) and MSc (2014) in Chemistry from the University of Santiago de Compostela. In 2019, I obtained my PhD in Organic Chemistry from the same university under the supervision of Prof. Carlos Saá and Prof. Jesús A. Varela working on the development of new chemical transformations based on the catalytic generation of ruthenium vinyl carbenes. In 2017, I was awarded with a Barrié Foundation fellowship to perform a short stay in the group of Prof. Amir H. Hoveyda (Boston College, USA), where I could learn the basics of copper-catalysed enantioselective conjugate additions. In April 2020, I joined the group of Prof. Ben L. Feringa at the University of Groningen as a Marie Curie COFUND fellow (within the oLife programme). For 3.5 years at Prof. Feringa group, I could explore many aspects related to chirality, including non-linear effects, spontaneous fractionation of enantiomers, self-induced diastereomeric anisochronism, and their application in asymmetric organocatalysis and organometallic catalysis. Since November 2023, I am research associate at Mateo Sanchez lab (mateosanchezlab.com) at the University of Cambridge, where I will develop new biocatalytic transformations.