Dr. Moisés Gulías has received one of the RSEQ Young Investigator 2015 Prize, given by the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ), which distinguishes those junior researchers whose careers are pointing to scientific leadership.
This is the second award of relevance for Moisés this year, as in 2015 he also received the Thieme Chemistry Award, which annually recognizes the work of about 60 young researchers around the world at the beginning of their independent research career.
Moisés Gulías Costa graduated in chemistry at the University of Santiago de Compostela in 2001 and obtained his PhD in 2006 at the same university, under the supervision of Professor José L. Mascareñas, receiving the Extraordinary Doctorate Award of the University of Santiago de Compostela. During his PhD he made a doctoral stay at Stanford University (2004) with Prof. BM Trost.
Between 2007 and 2009 he was Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellow in the group of Professor Matthew Gaunt, (University of Cambridge). A year later (2010) he returned to the University of Santiago de Compostela as a Parga-Pondal Researcher. In 2015 he received the Thieme Chemistry Journal Award and the RSEQ Young Investigator Prize.
His work is focused in the development of new synthetic methods for the functionalization of carbon-hydrogen bonds through transition metal catalysis. In practice, it means he intends to develop a more direct, economic, simple and environmentally friendly access to drugs and biologically active compounds.