Kilian Muñiz was born in 1970 in Hildesheim, Germany.
From 1990 to 1996 he studied Chemistry at the Universities of Hannover (Germany) and Oviedo (Spain) and at the Imperial College London (UK) and in 1996 he graduated with a Diploma in Chemistry from Hannover University.
In 1996 he joined the goup of Carsten Bolm at the RWTH Aachen (Germany) to obtain his Doctorate in Organic Chemistry in 1998. In 1999/2000 he worked as an Alexander von Humboldt/JSPS-postdoctoral associate with Professor Ryoji Noyori at Nagoya University (Japan).
He started his independent research in 2001 at the Kekulé-Department of Bonn University (Germany) as a Liebig fellow and defended his Habilitation thesis in 2005 and the same year moved to the University of Strasbourg as an Associate Professor. He was promoted to Full Professor in 2006. In November 2009 he joined the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) as Group Leader.
His group´s research specializes on the design of homogeneous transition metal catalysts with a focus on oxidative amination and diamination chemistry.
The research of Kilian Muñiz has been recognised among other awards by the Borchers Medal of the RWTH Aachen, a German-Israeli Foundation Young Investor Grant (2002/2003), the ADUC-Prize for Habilitands for 2004 and a Chaire d’Excellence from the French ANR in 2006. He was elected to the Institute Universitaire de France as a Junior Member in 2008.