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Núria López (Barcelona, 1972) graduated in Chemistry with honours at the University of Barcelona, Spain (1995) and got her PhD degree in Theoretical Chemistry “cum laude” at the same university (1999), in the group of Prof. F. Illas. She then moved to the Center for Atomic-scale Materials Physics for her post-doc in the group of Prof. Jens K. Nørskov (Denmark).
In 2001 she moved back to the University of Barcelona as a Ramón y Cajal fellow. In 2004 she was appointed Distinguished Professor by the DURSI in the Junior category (under 41 years old).
In November 2005 she took a position at ICIQ, where she currently leads a research group with focus on the theoretical research heterogeneous catalysis. She is also a part-time professor at the Department of Physical Chemistry of the URV. Núria has co-authored over 70 scientific publications.
In September 2010 her "Tenure Track" period was sucessfully evaluated by an experts committee and she became a "Senior Group Leader" at ICIQ.
Dr. López has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant to carry out the 5-year project “Bio2chem-d: Biomass to chemicals: Catalysis design from first principles for a sustainable chemical industry", which will be funded by the European Research Council.
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