Research

PhD on Computational and Theoretical Chemistry. Dr. Maria Besora received her PhD from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona under the supervision of Prof. Agustí lledós and Prof. Feliu Maseras, where she mainly studied the formation of dihydrogen complexes. She did two research stays at the Université de Montpellier II (in Prof. Odile Eisenstein's group) and at University of York (in Prof. John McGrady's group). After a period of post-doc at the University of Bristol (UK) with Prof. Jeremy Harvey studying spin-forbidden reactions, she received a Juan de la Cierva grant and moved to the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) to work at the group of Prof. Feliu Maseras. At the end of 2018, she moved to the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona).

Research lines: His scientific interests focus mainly on the study of reaction mechanisms and the improvement of catalytic processes by means of computational chemistry tools, as well as on the application of statistical techniques to solve chemical problems.

Teaching: Degree in Chemistry (degree in English): "Thermodynamics and Transport Phenomena", laboratory practicals of "Thermodynamics and Transport Phenomena" and problems of "Molecular Structure". Degree in Biotechnology and Molecular Biology, Double degrees Biotech./Biochemistry and Biotech/Computer Eng.: "Termodinàmica i Cinètica" (part of kinetics year 2018-19).