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Dr. Alicia Casitas Tel.:(+49) 6421 28 25601 (Büro) ResearcherID |
Biography
Alicia Casitas received her Chemistry Degree in 2007 from Universitat de Girona (Spain), where she also obtained her PhD in 2012 under the supervision of Prof. Xavi Ribas and Prof. Miquel Costas. During the graduate period, she spent 3 months as a visiting student in the group of Prof. Shannon S. Stahl at University of Madison-Wisconsin (US, 2009) and another 3 months in the group of Prof. Matthew J. Gaunt at University of Cambridge (UK, 2011). Then, she pursued postdoctoral studies at Max-Planck-Institut für Köhlenforschung (Germany) in the group of Prof. Alois Fürstner (2013–2015) and at Institut Català d’Investigació Química (ICIQ, Spain) in Prof. Julio Lloret-Fillol’s group (2016–2018). In July 2018, she moved to Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi (IQCC) in Girona as a junior group leader funded by a Junior-Leader LaCaixa Postdoctoral Fellowship. Since July 2019 Alicia is an Assistant Professor (W1) in Organic Chemistry in the Faculty of Chemistry at Philipps-Universität Marburg (Germany). In 2021 she received the Thieme Chemistry Journals Award and in 2023 the Junior Scientist Program (JSP) Fellowship to attend the Bürgenstock conference (Switzerland). In 2024 she received the Young Investigator Award Group Leader awarded by the "Real Sociedad Española de Química" (RSEQ). Her research interests include fundamental organometallic chemistry studies and the development of sustainable synthetic methodologies towards bond-forming reactions with first-row transition metals.