Keynote Speaker

Development and Understanding 

Fe-Catalyzed Radical Cross-Coupling Reactions 

Osvaldo Gutierrez 

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

University of California, Los Angeles 

Keynote Address Abstract:

This year's keynote lecture will be given by Prof Osvaldo Gutierrez who is Professor of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA.  Dr. Gutierrez graduated from UC Davis in 2012 with a PhD in Chemistry, working with Prof Dean Tantillo, and did his postdoctoral studies with Prof Kozlowski at the University of Pennsylvania where he worked on transition metal catalyzed processes. In 2016, Dr. Gutierrez was hired as Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2021. Dr. Gutierrez was recruited to Texas A&M University as Full Professor in 2024 and then moved to UCLA in 2025 as Professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry and as the inaugural CSRC Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) Director of STEM. Dr. Gutierrez's research combines computational and experimental approaches to advance our understanding of iron- and photo-catalyzed reaction mechanisms. Osvaldo is also involved in a series of initiatives to increase diversity in STEM, including serving as President of the Alliance for Diversity in Science and Engineering (ADSE) and organizer of the annual Young Researchers Conference (YRC). Prof Gutierrez’s keynote lecture is entitled: “Development and Understanding of Fe-catalyzed Radical Cross-coupling Reactions”.