Ricardo Jesús Riguera Vega

Prof. Ricardo Riguera is Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) and carried out postdoctoral studies at University College London. In 1978, was appointed Lecturer and in 1990 became full Professor of the University of Santiago.

He is author of more than 250 research papers, reviews, book chapters and patents, initially centered on natural products, (terrestrial and marine), medicinal chemistry and NMR methods for determination of absolute configuration. Since 2005 he is interested on the design of polymer-based nanostructured systems for drug delivery and as chiral sensors. The drug delivery systems are prepared from functionalised polysaccharides and dendrimers, while dynamic poly(phenyl)acetylenes with helical skeleton (axial chirality) that respond to external stimuli with changes in the helical sense, elongation or aggregation, are the basis for the sensors.

 As academic, he has authored three textbooks for students, supervised more than 30 Ph D thesis and delivered as Invited Prof. post-grad courses in many universities.

Prof Riguera has served as Chairman of the Department, Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Santiago.

In 2013 the Real Sociedad Española de Química awarded him the Félix Serratosa Medal for his accomplishments on Organic Chemistry. In 2018 he received from the same Society, the GERMN award for his accomplishments on NMR.