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Cristina Dominguez Escobar (University of the Basque Country) • summer research intern • 2024 Bryan Alexis Melo Flores (University of Barcelona) • summer research intern • 2023 Ania Beatriz Rodriguez (Autonomous University of Madrid) • summer research intern • 2022 Jorge Cardenas-Gamboa (University of Barcelona) • summer research intern • 2021

ORCID: 0000-0002-5084-1321 Google Scholar Web of Science Dr. Bo Chen received his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry in China in 2011 (advisors: Prof. Yun-Dong Wu and Prof. Yu-Xue Li). He then moved to the US to conduct postdoctoral research at the University of North Texas (2012-2014, advisor: Prof. Weston Borden) and Cornell University (2014-2018, advisor: Prof. Roald Hoffmann), before joining Pennsylvania State University as an Assistant Research Professor in 2018. In February 2020, he started his independent research career at the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) in Spain as an Ikerbasque Research Fellow. His research is characterized by the creative application of computational chemistry to interdisciplinary research at the interface of organic chemistry, materials science, and high pressure science. His recent research focuses on the effect of pressure on organic reactions in solution and in the solid state. ... Read more …

ORCID: 0000-0003-4351-5613 jorge.marques@dipc.org Jorge Laranjeira pursued his PhD at the university of Aveiro under the supervision of Dr. Leonel Marques and Dr. Manuel Melle-Franco. During his PhD he collaborated directly with international groups working under the supervision of Emilio Martínez Núñez from Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Facultade de Química and Dr. Ion Errea from Centro de Física de Materiales both situated in Spain, under the scope of the HPC-Europa3 program. He completed his European doctorate degree on March 2024 and joined the DIPC on May of the same year as a postdoctoral researcher working under the supervision of Dr. Bo Chen. His research focuses on the study of molecules and crystalline structures under pressure using ab-initio methods. ... Read more …

mohammed.loukili@dipc.org Current research My research consists of using computational chemistry to explore cycloadditions and organocatalysis high pressure. First, we will be using the XP-PCM method to look into the effect of pressure on cycloaddition reactions and study the possible violation of the Woodward-Hoffmann rules. Second, we will look into interesting organocatalysis systems in order to evaluate the effect of pressure on the obtained stereoselectivity. Finally, we will experimentally verify interesting predictions from calculations. Education MS, Molecular Organic Chemistry Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco 2019 BS, Physical Chemistry of Materials Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco 2017