IU CINQUIMA TEAM

Bio

She earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry from the University of Zaragoza, and completed her PhD at the University of Valladolid under the supervision of Prof. Pablo Espinet. She spent two years as a Fulbright postdoctoral fellow in the group of Prof. Robert Crabtree at Yale University. After this stay, she returned to the UVa, first as Associate Professor and, since 2007, as Full Professor of Inorganic Chemistry.

Author of nearly one hundred publications and patents, her research activity is carried out at the CINQUIMA Institute. Her work focuses on the development and mechanistic study of new metal‑catalyzed reactions, with particular emphasis on C–H activation processes. She also works on the synthesis of novel polymers and their use as supports for recyclable catalysts to achieve more sustainable chemical syntheses.

She is currently President of the Organometallic Chemistry Specialized Group of the RSEQ. She chairs the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry (Wiley‑VCH), and is a member of the International Advisory Board of Organometallics (ACS). She has undertaken numerous research management and evaluation roles, most notably serving as Chemistry Coordinator of the ANEP (2012–2015).

She has been distinguished as a Chemistry Europe Fellow (2020) and has received the Research Excellence Award of the Royal Spanish Society of Chemistry (2023).

She is currently the director of the Catalysis and Polymers Research Group, director of UIC 176, and coordinator of the PhD Program in Chemistry: Chemistry of Synthesis, Catalysis, and Advanced Materials.

Contact

albeniz@uva.es
+34 983 18 46 21 (extensión 4621)
 ORCID (0000-0002-4134-1333)

Bio

Contact

jesusmaria.martinez-ilarduya@uva.es
+34 983 18 58 08 (extensión 5808)
ORCID (0000-0003-4561-1131)

Bio

He is currently the director of the Inorganic and Organic Molecules with Transition Metals Research Group and director of UIC 263.

Contact

daniel.miguel@uva.es
+34 983 18 40 96 (extensión 4096)
ORCID (0000-0003-0650-3058)

Bio

He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Sciences (1995) and PhD in Chemistry (2001) from the University of Oviedo. He completed a two‑year postdoctoral stay at Iowa State University (USA). He later worked as a Contracted Researcher at the University of Oviedo and served as Division Director of NMR at Varian NMR Systems for three years. In 2006, he joined the University of Valladolid as a Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow. After completing that contract, he was appointed Associate Professor and later Full Professor in the area of Inorganic Chemistry.

He has held several university and research management positions, including Director of the Instrumental Techniques Laboratory, Director of the UVa Science Park, Director of the UVa General Foundation, and Vice‑Rector for Technological Development and Innovation. He is the author of more than 70 articles published in high‑impact international journals.

He is currently the director of the Synthesis of Organic and Inorganic Chemicals Research Gropup and a member of UIC 263.

Contact

celedonio.alvarez@uva.es
+34 983 18 45 20 (extensión 4520)
ORCID (0000-0003-4431-6501)

Bio

He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry from the University of Valladolid, where he also completed his PhD in 2007. He undertook a postdoctoral stay at the Institute of Industrial Fermentations / Institute of Food Science Research (CSIC) under a Juan de la Cierva contract, supervised by Prof. Alejandro Cifuentes, which included a stay at the University of Helsinki with Prof. Marja Liisa Riekkola. In 2010, he obtained a position as Assistant Lecturer at the University of Valladolid, where he later served as Assistant Professor and subsequently as Associate Professor. Since 2024, he has been a Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the same university.

In recent years, he has worked mainly in apiculture, particularly on the development of new strategies for the determination of pesticides and bioactive compounds in hive products. Throughout his scientific career, he has worked with various advanced analytical techniques such as HPLC (UHPLC), GC (GC×GC), CE, and SFC, primarily coupled to MS or MS/MS.

He has also contributed as author or co‑author to more than 140 scientific publications (H‑index 31), 110 conference communications, 6 book chapters, and 1 patent. In addition, he has participated as Principal Investigator or Researcher in more than 20 research projects or contracts with various industries and public organizations.

He is also an Associate Editor of Food Analytical Methods and a member of the editorial board of several JCR journals, such as Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, Foods, Separations, and Molecules.

He is currently the director of the Separation Techniques and Applied Analysis Research Group and a member of UIC 179.

Contact

jose.bernal@uva.es
+34 983 18 63 47 (extensión 6347)
ORCID (0000-0002-8618-3543)

Bio

She holds a PhD in Chemical Sciences from the University of Valladolid (1993). She was awarded a fellowship from the European Commission (Training and Mobility of Researchers, now Marie Curie Actions) and completed a postdoctoral stay at the Research Institute for Chromatography (RIC) in Kortrijk (Belgium), under the supervision of Prof. Pat Sandra. During this period, she studied the use of supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) in enantioselective separations. Since 1992, she has been a faculty member of the Department of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Valladolid, where she has developed her teaching and research career, becoming an Associate Professor in 2002. Over the years, she has participated in more than 30 research projects and over 10 research contracts with companies and public institutions, and is co‑author of a patent. She is the author/co‑author of more than 85 research publications, including SCI journal articles and book chapters (h‑index 32), as well as numerous conference communications. She has supervised 3 doctoral theses, 9 master’s theses, 13 final‑year research projects, and 11 undergraduate dissertations. She is also a reviewer for scientific articles in more than 30 SCI journals.

Her research lines focus on the use of chromatographic techniques (SFC, HPLC, GC) coupled to PDA, FLD, or MS detectors for the analysis of foods, contaminants, and pharmaceuticals. Special attention is given to enantioselective analysis and the use of supercritical CO₂, both in chromatography (SFC) and in extraction (SFE).

She is currently a member of the Separation Techniques and Applied Analysis Research Group and director of UIC 179.

Contact

ltoribio@uva.es
+34 983 18 58 97 (extensión 5897)
ORCID(0000-0002-7104-679X)