Formación principal:
2009-2013: Graduado en Química por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM).
2013-2015: Máster en Química Teórica y Modelización Computacional (UAM)
2015-2019: Doctor en Química Teórica (Sobresaliente Cum laude, y Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado UAM).
Cursos, workshops...:
2013: Curso de Iniciación a la Investigación en Estructura de la Materia (IEM, CSIC)
2014: Curso de Bioquímica Computacional (Universidad de Barcelona/Barcelona Supercomputing Center)
2014: Curso de Estados Excitados Moleculares (CECAM)
2014: Curso de Química Teórica del Estado Sólido (CECAM)
2016: Programación paralela con OpenMP y MPI (Barcelona Supercomputing Center y UAM)
2018: Curso de administración de sistemas operativos Linux (Centro Computación Científica de la UAM)
2018: School on mathematics in electronic structure theory (Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Sorbonne Université)
2019: Curso de Computación Cuántica (UAM/IBM-Q)
2012-2013: Becario de Colaboración (Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia) Departamento de Química, UAM.
2013: Prácticas en Instituto de Catálisis y Petroleoquímica (CSIC)
2013-2014: Becario de posgrado (UAM) Departamento de Química, UAM.
2014-2015: Becario del Programa propio de preparación del plan de investigación (UAM)
2015-2019: Contrato FPI, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, en Departamento de Química, UAM.
2019-2019: Investigador contratado a cargo de proyecto. Departamento de Química, UAM.
2020-2022: Investigador postdoctoral en Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC, http://dipc.ehu.es/).
2022: Investigador "Margarita Salas", Universidad Autónoma de Madrid & Univesità degli Studi di Napoli (declinado).
2022-Presente: Profesor Ayudante Doctor, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
“Ultrafast electron dynamics in molecules in plasmonic nanocavities”. Red Española de Supercomputación. 256000 horas de tiempo de cálculo.
"Large-scale Analysis of Perovskites Reactivity using Advanced Simulations on Surfaces (LAPRASS)". Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid & UAM. 60716.76 €.
-Reactividad química: simulación de mecanismos, diseño molecular...
-Química de superficies
-Ciencia de Materiales
-Fotoquímica
-Catálisis
Febrero-Mayo 2015: Dipartamento di Scienze Chimiche. Universitá degli Studi di Napoli Federico II.
Febrero-Mayo 2017: Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay (CNRS-U.Paris-Sud)
Febrero-Mayo 2018: Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay (CNRS-U.Paris-Sud)
Curso 2013/2014, UAM
-Química como Ciencia Central (Jornadas junto a la Real Sociedad Española de Química)
Curso 2015/2016, UAM
-Determinación Estructural (Seminarios, asignatura obligatoria de 4º de Química)
-Química (Laboratorios, asignatura obligatoria de 1º de Ciencias Ambientales)
Curso 2016/2017, UAM
-Experimentación Avanzada (Asignatura obligatoria, 4º de Química)
-Determinación Estructural (Seminarios, asignatura obligatoria de 3º de Química)
-Experimentación en Química (Asignatura obligatoria, 2º de Ingeniería Química)
-Química (Laboratorios, asignatura obligatoria de 1º de Biología)
-Química (Laboratorios, asignatura obligatoria de 1º de Ciencias Ambientales)
Curso 2017/2018
-Experimentación Avanzada (Asignatura obligatoria, 4º de Química)
-Determinación Estructural (Seminarios, asignatura obligatoria de 3º de Química)
-Química Física III (Prácticas, asignatura obligatoria, 3º de Química)
-Química (Laboratorios, asignatura obligatoria de 1º de Ciencias Ambientales)
Curso 2018/2019
-Experimentación Avanzada (Asignatura obligatoria, 4º de Química)
-Química Física III (Prácticas, asignatura obligatoria, 3º de Química)
-Química (Laboratorios, asignatura obligatoria de 1º de Ciencias Ambientales)
Curso 2019/2020
-Laboratorio de Química Teórica Aplicada (Máster en Química Teórica y Modelización Computacional)
-Codirector de Trabajo de Fin de Grado en Química: Nitruro de boro hexagonal como material bidimensional catalítico: un estudio teórico. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, curso 2017-2018
-Codirector de Trabajo de Fin de Grado en Química: Estudio teórico del incremento de la acidez y reactividad mediante enlace de hidrógeno intramoleculares. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, curso 2017-2018
-Codirector de Trabajo de Fin de Grado en Química: Estudio teórico de la interacción entre tioureas y metales pesados. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, curso 2018-2019
-Codirector de Trabajo de Fin de Grado en Química: Estudio teórico de nanotubos de nitruro de boro. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, curso 2019-2020
1-Fernando Aguilar-Galindo, M. Merced Montero-Campillo, Manuel Yáñez and Otilia Mó. “On the Stability Of [Pb(Proline)]2+ Complexes. Reconciling Theory With Experiment” Chemical Physics Letters, 598, 91, (2014) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2014.03.006
2-Pablo Ares, Fernando Aguilar-Galindo, David Rodríguez-San-Miguel, Diego A. Aldave, Sergio Díaz-Tendero, Manuel Alcamí, Fernando Martín, Julio Gómez-Herrero and Félix Zamora. “Mechanical Isolation of Highly Stable Antimonene under Ambient Conditions” Advanced Materials, 28, 6332, (2016) http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.201602128
3-Enrique Arpa, Fernando Aguilar-Galindo and Sergio Díaz-Tendero. “Unravelling the Mechanism of Non-photoactivated [2+2] Cycloaddition Reactions: Relevance of Orbital Interactions and Zwitterionic Intermediates” ChemistrySelect, 2, 1089, (2017) https://doi.org/10.1002/slct.201601743
4-Fernando Aguilar-Galindo, Pilar Ocón and José Manuel López Poyato. “Exploring the catalytic efficiency of X-doped (X=B, N, P) graphene in oxygen reduction reaction: Influence of solvent and border effects” International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 118, 25579, (2018) https://doi.org/10.1002/qua.25579
5-Fernando Aguilar-Galindo and Sergio Díaz-Tendero. “Theoretical Insights into Vinyl Derivatives Adsorption on a Cu(100) Surface” Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 122, 27301, (2018) https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b06142
6-Fernando Aguilar-Galindo, Sergio Díaz-Tendero and Andrei G. Borisov. “Electronic Structure Effects in the Coupling of a Single Molecule with a Plasmonic Antenna” Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 123, 4446, (2019) https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b11872
7-Antonio Casado-Sánchez, Mustafa Uygur, Daniel González-Muñoz, Fernando Aguilar-Galindo, José Luis Nova-Fernández, Judith Arranz-Plaza, Sergio Díaz-Tendero, Silvia Cabrera, Olga Garcia Mancheno, and José Alemán. “8-Mercaptoquinoline as Ligand for Enhancing the Photocatalytic Activity of Pt(II) Coordination Complexes: Reactions and Mechanistic Insights” Journal of Organic Chemistry, 84, 6437, (2019) https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.9b00520
8-Fernando Aguilar-Galindo, Ana María Tuñón, Alberto Fraile, José Alemán, Sergio Díaz-Tendero. “Role of intramolecular hydrogen bonds and electron withdrawing groups in the acidity of aldimines and ketimines: a density functional theory study” Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, 138, 59, (2019) https://doi.org/10.1007/s00214-019-2451-0
9-Fernando Aguilar-Galindo and Sergio Díaz-Tendero. “Outstanding energy exchange between organic molecules and metal surfaces: decomposition kinetics of excited vinyl derivatives driven by the interaction with a Cu(111) surface” Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 123, 19625 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b04898
10-Ransel Barzaga, Mayra P Hernández, Fernando Aguilar-Galindo and Sergio Díaz-Tendero. "Revealing the Interplay Between Covalent and Non-Covalent Interactions Driving the Adsorption of Monosubstituted Thiourea Derivatives on the Au(111) Surface" Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 124, 9924 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c00729
11-Fernando Aguilar-Galindo, Andrei Borisov and Sergio Díaz-Tendero. "Ultrafast Dynamics of Electronic Resonances in Molecules Adsorbed on Metal Surfaces: a Wave Packet Propagation Approach" Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 17, 639 (2021), https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.0c01031
12-James Lawrence, Mohammed Mohammed, Dulce Rey, Fernando Aguilar-Galindo, Alejandro Berdonces-Layunta, Diego Peña, Dimas de Oteyza. "Reassessing Alkyne Coupling Reactions While Studying the Electronic Properties of Diverse Pyrene Linkages at Surfaces", ACS Nano, 15, 4937 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.0c09756
13-Fernando Aguilar-Galindo, Andrei Borisov and Sergio Díaz-Tendero. "Unveiling the anisotropic behavior of ultrafast electron transfer at the metal/organic interface" Applied Surface Science, 554, 149311 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2021.149311
14-Ransel Barzaga, Lucía Lestón-Sánchez, Osvaldo Estévez-Hernández, Fernando Aguilar-Galindo and Sergio Díaz-Tendero. "Synergy effects in the heavy metal ion chelation with aryl and aroyl substituted thiourea derivatives" Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 60, 11984 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c01068
15-Fernando Aguilar-Galindo, Ricardo I Rodríguez, Leonardo Mollari, José Alemán and Sergio Díaz-Tendero. "Visible-Light Radical-Radical Coupling Vs Radical Addition: Disentangling a Mechanistic Knot" Catalysts, 11, 922 (2021) https://doi.org/10.3390/catal11080922
16-Alejandro Berdonces-Layunta, Fabian Schulz, Fernando Aguilar-Galindo, James Lawrence, Mohammed Mohammed, Matthias Muntwiler, Jorge Lobo-Checa, Peter Liljeroth and Dimas de Oteyza. "Order from a Mess: The Growth of 5-Armchair Graphene Nanoribbons". ACS Nano, 15, 16552 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.1c06226
17-Fernando Aguilar-Galindo, Mario Zapata-Herrera, Sergio Díaz-Tendero, Javier Aizpurua and Andrei Borisov. "Effect of a dielectric spacer on electronic and electromagnetic interactions at play in molecular exciton decay at surfaces and in plasmonic gaps" ACS Photonics, 8, 3495 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.1c00791
18-Carlos Guerra, Sarvesh Kumar, Fernando Aguilar-Galindo, Sergio Díaz-Tendero, Ana I. Lozano, Mónica Mendes, Paulo Limão-Vieira and Gustavo García. "Unexpected benzene oxidation in collisions with superoxide anions". Scientific Reports, 11, 23125 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-02408-7
19-Carlos Guerra, Sarvesh Kumar, Fernando Aguilar-Galindo, Sergio Díaz-Tendero, Ana I. Lozano, Mónica Mendes, Juan C. Oller, Paulo Limão-Vieira and Gustavo García. "Total Electron Detachment and Induced Cationic Fragmentation Cross Sections for Superoxide Anion (O2−) Collisions with Benzene (C6H6) Molecules". International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23, 1266 (2022) https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms23031266
20-Jorge Labella, Giulia Lavarda, Leyre Hernández-López, Fernando Aguilar-Galindo, Sergio Díaz-Tendero, Jorge Lobo-Checa and Tomás Torres. "Preparation, supramolecular organization, and on-surface reactivity of enantiopure Subphthalocyanines: from bulk to 2D-polymerization". Journal of American Chemical Society, 144, 16579 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.2c06377
21-Bogdana Borca, Tomasz Michnowicz, Fernando Aguilar-Galindo, Rémi Pétuya, Marcel Pristl, Verena Schendel, Ivan Pentegov, Ulrike Kraft, Hagen Klauk, Peter Wahl, Andrés Arnau and Uta Schlickum. "Chiral and Catalytic Effects of Site-Specific Molecular Adsorption". Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 14, 2072 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c03575
22-Plácido Arenas-Fernandez, Fernando Aguilar-Galindo, Inmaculada Suárez and Baudilio Coto. "Acidity Reduction using ionic liquids: extraction, kinetic, and theoretical study", Journal of Molecular Liquids, 382, 121870 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2023.121870
23-Ceren Can Karanlık; Fernando Aguilar-Galindo, Lukasz Sobotta, Emre Güzel and Ali Erdogmus. "Combination of Light and Ultrasound: Exploring Sono-Photochemical Activities of Phthalocyanine-Based Sensitizers", Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 127, 9145 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c01176
24-Verónica G. Vegas, Andrea García-Hernán, Fernando Aguilar-Galindo, Josefina Perles and Pilar Amo-Ochoa. " Structural and Theoretical Study of Copper(II)-5-Fluoro Uracil Acetate Coordination Compounds: Single-Crystal to Single-Crystal Transformation as Possible Humidity Sensor", Polymers, 15, 2827 (2023). https://doi.org/10.3390/polym15132827
25-Marcos Martínez-Fernández, Emiliano Martínez-Periñán, Alejandro de la Peña Ruigomez, Jorge J. Cabrera Trujillo, Jorge A.R. Navarro, Fernando Aguilar-Galindo, David Rodríguez-San-Miguel, Mar Ramos, Rebecca Vismara, Félix Zamora, Encarnación Lorenzo, and José L. Segura. "Scalable Synthesis and Electrocatalytic Performance of Highly Fluorinated Covalent Organic Frameworks for Oxygen Reduction". Angewandte Chemie, 62, e202313940 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202313940
26-Jan Patrick Calupitan, Alejandro Berdonces-Layunta, Fernando Aguilar-Galindo, Manuel Vilas-Varela, Diego Peña, David Casanova, Martina Corso, Dimas de Oteyza and Tao Wang. "Emergence of π-Magnetism in Fused Aza-Triangulenes: Symmetry and Charge Transfer Effects". Nano Letters, 23, 9832 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02586
27-Fernando Aguilar-Galindo, Sergio Fajardo-Rodríguez, José Manuel L. Poyato, Elena Pastor, Juan Ramón Avilés-Moreno and Pilar Ocón. "Outstanding inhibition of H2O2 generation in doubly doped graphene: the synergy of two heteroatoms opens a new chemical path.", Carbon, 216, 118499 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2023.118499
28-Andrea García-Hernán, Gabriela Brito-Santos, Elena de la Rubia, Fernando Aguilar-Galindo, Oscar Castillo, Ginés Lifante-Pedrola, Joaquín Sanchiz, Ricardo Guerrero-Lemus and Pilar Amo-Ochoa. "Determining Factors to understand the external quantum efficiency values. Studied carried out with Copper(I)-I and 1,2-bis(4-pyridyl) ethane coordination polymers as downshifters in photovoltaic modules". Inorganic Chemistry, 63, 4646 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c04232
29-Fernando Aguilar-Galindo, Vy Thi Thao Nguyen, Raj Singh, Alicja Domaracka, Bernd A Huber, Sergio Díaz-Tendero, Patrick Rousseau and Sylvain Maclot. "Unexpected and delayed fragmentation dynamics of the organometallic ferrocene induced by ion-collision." Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 26, 7638 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1039/D3CP05430F
30-Noemí Nogal, Javier Luis-Barrera, Sonia Vela-Gallego, Fernando Aguilar-Galindo and Andrés de la Escosura. "NADH-mediated primordial synthesis of amino acids". Organic Chemistry Frontiers, 11, 1924 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1039/D4QO00050A
31-José Alemán, Jorge Humbrías-Martín, Roberto del Río-Rodríguez, Fernando Aguilar-Galindo, Sergio Díaz-Tendero and Jose A. Fernández-Salas. "Bicarbonate-Binding Catalysis for the Enantioselective Desymmetrization of Ketosulfonium salts". Nature Communications. 15, 4727 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48832-x
32-Alexandra Boehmke, Roberto A. Boto, Eoin Elliot, Bart de Nijs, Ruben Esteban, Tamás Földes, Fernando Aguilar-Galindo, Edina Rosta, Javier Aizpurua and Jeremy J. Baumberg. "Uncovering low-frequency vibrations in surface-enhanced Raman of organic molecules". Nature Communications. 15, 6733 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-50823-x
33-Andrea García-Hernán, Fernando Aguilar-Galindo, Óscar Castillo and Pilar Amo. "1D Zn(ii)/2D Cu(i) halogen pyridyl coordination polymers. Band gap engineering by DFT for predicting more efficient photocatalysts in water treatment". Catalysis Science & Technology, 14, 6573 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1039/D4CY00969J
34-Hamida Gouadria, Fernando Aguilar-Galindo, Jesús Álvarez Alonso, Juan José de Miguel, Sergio Díaz-Tendero, María José Capitan. "Disentangling the Optoelectronic Behaviour of Lead Iodide Governed by Two-Dimensional Electron Confinement". ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 16, 57302 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.4c10507
35-Diana Murillo-Criado, Fernando Aguilar-Galindo, Isabel Serrano, Miguel A. Gonzalez, Emilia Tojo, Inmaculada Suárez, Baudilio Coto and Maria Jose Tenorio. "Influence of the carboxylate anion on the CO2 absorption mechanism using based-imidazolium ionic liquids". Journal of CO2 utilization. 91, 103016 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcou.2024.103016
36-Carlos Guerra, Mariana Leiferman, Ana Isabel Lozano, Fernando Aguilar-Galindo, Sergio Díaz-Tendero, Juan Carlos Oller, Paulo Limão-Vieira and Gustavo García. "Superoxide anion (O2–) collisions with CO2 molecules in the energy range 50-950 eV". The Journal of Chemical Physics. Accepted (2025).
ESPA (Electronic Structure Principles and Aplications) 2014: Presentación del póster: Reactivity of metallated nitrenium ions in gas phase.
EUCO-CC (European Conference in Computational Chemistry) 2015: Presentación del póster: Density Functional Theory study on acrylamide and acrolein adsorption on Cu(100): importance of weak interactions.
EUCO-CC (European Conference in Computational Chemistry) 2015: Presentación del póster: Effect of the substituent and the metal in the spin states of the [M-nitrene]+ (M=Cu,Mg,Na) complexes.
4th Workshop on Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling (Madrid, 2015): Comunicación oral: Reactivity and interactions of metallated nitrenium ions in gas phase.
ESPA (Electronic Structure Principles and Aplications) 2016: Presentación del póster: Electronic structure, stability and dynamics of antimonene in water. A Density Functional Theory study.
ECAMP (European Conference on Atoms, Molecules and Photons) 2016: Presentación del póster: Density Functional Theory study on the adsorption of acrylonitrile, acrylamide and acrolein on Cu(100): importance of weak interactions.
WATOC (World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists) 2017: Presentación del póster: Electronic excited states of organic molecules adsorbed on Cu(100)
ESPA (Electronic Structure Principles and Aplications) 2018: Presentación del póster: Energy transfer from thermally excited vinyl derivatives to metal surfaces. An Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics study.
IMAMPC (International Meeting ond Atomic and Molecular Physics and Chemistry) 2019: Póster: Energy and charge transfer dynamics from excited vinyl derivatives to metal surfcaces: a theoretical study. (premio al mejor póster)
EPIC-MAN 2019: Póster: Resonant anionic states of organic molecules adsorbed on metal surfaces
ICPEAC (International Conference on Photonic, Electronic and Atomic Collisions) 2019: Póster: Coulomb explosion of thiourea complexes induced by low energy collisions with heavy metal cations.
ICPEAC (International Conference on Photonic, Electronic and Atomic Collisions) 2019: Póster: Resonant anionic states of organic molecules adsorbed on metal surfaces
Quantum2021: Poster: Ab Initio Description of the Photoionization of Graphene Under Laser Pulses
ESPA (Electronic Structure Principles and Aplications) 2022: Poster: Ultrafast electron dynamics in molecules adsorbed on metal surfaces: a Wave Packet Propagation Approach.
WATOC (World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists) 2022: Poster: Ultrafast electron dynamics in molecules adsorbed on metal surfaces: a Wave Packet Propagation Approach.
XXXIX Reunión Bienal de Química 2023. Oral communication: Modifying molecular excited states through interaction with metal surfaces.
IMAMPC (International Meeting ond Atomic and Molecular Physics and Chemistry) 2024. Oral communication: Ultrafast electron dynamics in hybrid organic-metal interfaces. (recognized as "notable contribution")
LMI (Light-Matter Interaction at the Nanoscale) 2024: Flash Talk: Controlled photoemission from graphene using laser pulses.
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