Miquel Costas
Universitat de Girona (Spain)
Plenary Lecture
"Selective Oxidation Catalysis with Minimalistic Models of Oxotrasferases"
Miquel Costas is full professor of inorganic chemistry in the Department of Chemistry of the Universitat de Girona (UdG) and research group leader in the institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (IQCC). He obtained his PhD from the University of Girona in the group of Prof. Antoni Llobet and performed post-doctoral studies at the University of Minnesota in the group of Prof. Lawrence Que Jr. He returned to Spain (UdG) with a Ramon i Cajal contract and since 2003 is professor of Inorganic Chemistry. His current research interests are the exploration of coordination chemistry and homogeneous catalysis applied to selective C-H functionalization, taking nature as inspiration for reactivity and catalyst development.