People
Dr. Orestes Rivada-Wheelaghan
Ramón y Cajal Researcher
Orestes (born 1985 in Seville, Spain), obtained his B.S. in Chemistry at the University of Oviedo and received his MSc and Ph.D. degree in inorganic chemistry at the University of Seville in Spain, under the supervision of Dr. Salvador Conejero. After two years working as a post-doctoral with Prof. David Milstein at the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel), developing iron-based green homogeneous catalysis. Orestes moved to the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (Japan) as a JSPS Fellow where he designed and developed multimetallic complexes to study meta–metal cooperation. Between 2019 and 2022, Orestes worked as a Junior MOPGA Laureate at the Laboratoire d’Electrochimie Moleculaire (Université Paris Cité) in collaboration with the renowned group in molecular electrochemistry and electrocatalysis REACTE, led by Prof. M. Robert. This position allowed him to build an electrochemical/organometallic lab from scratch and start his own team while learning the theoretical and experimental techniques used in molecular electrochemistry.
From March 2022, Orestes has stablished his research team at the Instituto the Investigaciones Químicas (IIQ).
His interest spans from organometallic chemistry to molecular electrocatalysis, including different modes of cooperative molecular activation and its use in energy storage application.
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Samantha L. Peralta-Arriaga
(March 2023 - Dec 2023) Postdoctoral Researcher
Sam obtained her B.S. in Industrial Chemistry at the University Autonomous of Nuevo Leon, Mexico in 2012.
After, she graduated with a master’s in science in Environmental Engineering in 2016 at the University Autonomous of Nuevo Leon, Mexico thanks to the CONACyT scholarship obtained to work on the development of new materials for hydrogen evolution at the Eco materials and Energy in the Department at the Civil Engineering Institute
After this, she took a break from the academia to work in the water treatment industry for two years. After this time, Sam was awarded with a CONACyT-SENER scholarship to do a PhD research project at the University of Sheffield under the supervision of Prof. Julia Weinstein to investigate biomimetic hybrid systems for hydrogen evolution and carbon dioxide reduction.
Currently, working on developing transition metal based bimetallic complexes to study their electrocatalytic activity towards carbon dioxide electroreduction.
Carlos Martínez Ceberio
Predoctoral candidate FPI. 03/2023 -
Carlos (1998, Madrid) obtained his B.S. in Chemistry at the University Complutense of Madrid. He spent a year as a research intern in the Department of Inorganic Chemistry where he carried out his Final Degree Project which consisted of the synthesis of new molecular liquid crystalline and luminescent materials.
In 2021 he started a Master's Degree in Nanoscience and nanomaterials at the same university where he synthesized and studied a series of organometallic compounds. His Master's Thesis at the department of Inorganic chemistry consisted of the design and preparation of liquid crystalline and luminescent bifunctional materials based on transition-metal-containing species. From this work, he successfully published a scientific paper at the Journal of molecular liquids 2023, 385, 122290.
He is currently working on a FPI contract where developing bimetallic complexes based on transition metals to explore their electrocatalytic application.
Miguel Ángel Martín Neri
Contrato Investigación. 11/2023 -
Miguel (1999, Ecija, Seville) obtained his B.S. in Chemistry at the University of Cordoba. He spent two years as a research intern in the Department of Organic Chemistry where he carried out his Final Degree Project which consisted of the synthesis of cobaloximes supported on MOFs for the production of hydrogen through photocatalysis.
In 2022 he started a Master's Degree in Synthetic Chemistry and Industry in Bilbao at the University of the Basque Country, where he developed techniques in the study of the synthesis of organic compounds. He developed his Master's Thesis at the Institute of Biophysics in Leioa, synthesising polymers to functionalise gold nanoparticles and carry out bioorthogonal chemistry.
He is currently working on a research contract funded by the Junta de Andalucía where he will develop bimetallic complexes based on transition metals and study their electrocatalytic application.
Carlos García Bellido
Postdoctoral Researcher (Dec 2023/ Dec 24)
Contrato financiado a través de un proyecto de la Agencia Estatal de Investigación.
Ignacio Nieto Vargas
TFG Student 2023/2024
He will work on the development of organometallic heterobimetallic complexes to study their photoluminiscent applications He is being co-directed by Pablo R and Orestes RW.
Jose Francisco Rizo Guitard
FORMER Master Student (2022/2023)
José (born 2000 in Seville, Spain) obtained his B.S. in Chemistry at the University of Seville. In his last year, he did an organic chemistry internship program, where he based his degree's final work on the synthesis of novel chiral organoboron tri-arylic systems with CPL properties at Lassaletta's Group in the Instituto de Investigaciones Químicas (IIQ).
To satisfy his organometallic's interests, and learn more about this topic, during his ongoing Master of Advanced Studies in Chemistry, he has joined our group where he will study molecular electrocatalysis using transition metal-based complexes, stabilized by pyrazine-based platforms.
Julián Jiménez Pérez
FORMER TFG (2022/2023)
Now master student in ICIQ
Julián (2000, Écija, Spain) is doing his undergraduate studies in chemistry at the University of Seville. In this last year, he has joined our group (DOGMA) for an internship and final undergraduate experimental work (TFG). He is currently working on the development of organometallic platinum species for hydrogermylation reactions. He has been awarded a state-fellowship and is being co-directed by Pablo R, Salvador C, and Orestes RW.
Dr. Antoine Bohn
FORMER Postdoctoral Researcher (2020-2021)
Antoine (born 1990 in Strasbourg, France) obtained his B.S. in Chemistry at the Université de Strasbourg and received his MSc at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan. After having been a physics-chemistry teacher for one year, he did his Ph.D. degree in inorganic chemistry at the Université Paris-Saclay under the supervision of Pr. Frédéric Banse and Dr. Katell Sénéchal-David.
He then worked for two years as a post-doctoral with Dr. Laurence Grimaud at the Ecole Normale Supérieure d’Ulm, developing Palladium-based catalysts in collaboration with Janssen pharmaceutica.
He joined the REACTE group as a postdoctoral fellow in December 2020.
Dr. Anandi Srinivasan
FORMER Postdoctoral Researcher (2019-2020)
Anandi obtained her B.S. in Polymer Science at the University of Delhi, India. She then joined the European Erasmus Mundus Master program in Functional Advanced Materials and Engineering (FAME) between the University of Augsburg (Germany) and University of Bordeaux (France) and graduated with the dual master’s degree in 2014.
She obtained her Ph.D at the University of Bordeaux under the guidance of Dr. Elizabeth A. Hillard and Dr. Rodolphe Clérac, investigating the structures and magnetic properties of extended metal atom chains.
After a post-doctoral stint at the University of Ottawa (Canada), she joined the REACTE group as a postdoctoral fellow from November 2019 till December 2020. She is currently engaged in the development of transition metal complexes for CO2 reduction.
