José Luis Mascareñas
José Luis Mascareñas completed his PhD at the University of Santiago in 1988. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University (USA) under the supervision of Prof. Paul Wender (1989-1990); and became permanent professor in 1993, and full professor in 2005, at the University of Santiago.
He has been visiting scholar in Harvard University (USA) in the summers of 1992 and 1995, and visiting scientist in the University of Cambridge (UK, 2009) and the MIT (USA, 2013). In 2009 he received the Organic Chemistry award of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry and in 2015 he received the Gold Medal (maximun recognition) of the same society. In 2014 he received and ERC Advanced Grant of the EU for his project METBIOCAT. In addition, he is a member of the European Academy of Sciences - since 2016 - and founding president of the biological chemistry group of the RSEQ.
His current research splits between a synthetic program aimed at discovering novel methods based on metal catalysis, and a chemical biology program focused to the development of synthetic tools for biological intervention.
Further information at www.metbiocat.eu