Research

I obtained my doctoral degree in Chemistry at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 2002 under the supervision of Agustí Lledós and Carles Bo. During the pre-doctoraI period, I made three-months stays at the groups of Odile Eisenstein (CNRS, Montpellier, France), Thomas R. Cundari (University of Memphis, USA), and Dieter Vogt (Technological University of Eindhoven, The Nederlands). Also in 2002, I was awarded with 2nd prize for Innovative Business Ideas from Catalan regional government (INNOVA program).
From 2002 to 2004 I moved to the University of Heidelberg (Germany) for a postdoctoral stay with Peter Hofmann, where I worked on the application of theoretical methods for the de novo design of homogenous catalysts, partially in collaboration with industrial partners. After a short post-doc period at the Institut Català d'Investigació Química (ICIQ), Tarragona (Spain), I obtained a Tenure Track Lecturer position at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV, Tarragona, Spain), and in 2008 I was appointed Associated Professor (Professor Agregat). This latter period has included research stays as Invited Professor at the Université de Strasbourg (France, 2010 and 2011) and as Visiting Professor at University of Nottingham (UK, 2015) and King's College London (UK, 2018).
My recent research interests has focused on the application and development of computational tools, including machine learning techniques, for the understanding and design of catalysis processes, as well as, the study of the macroscopic and dynamic behavior of inorganic nanosized clusters.