José
Luis Mascareñas is full Professor in Chemistry at the University of
Santiago de Compostela (USC, Galicia, Spain) since 2005, and scientific
director of the Center for research in biological chemistry and
molecular materials (CiQUS) since 2014. He completed his PhD at the
University of Santiago in 1988, and was a postdoctoral fellow at
Stanford University (USA) under the supervision of Prof. Paul Wender
(1989-1991). He has been visiting scholar in Harvard University (USA) in
the summers of 1992 and 1995, and visiting scientist in the University
of Cambridge (UK, 2009) and the MIT (USA, 2013).
He
has supervised 41 PhD theses, published over 215 articles in peer
reviewed journals and wrote 23 patent applications (6 registered, 3 granted). He has delivered
more than 160 invited lectures. Along recent years he has received
several awards, including: Organic Chemistry award of the Spanish Royal
Society of Chemistry (RSEQ, 2009), Advanced grant of the ERC (2014),
Galician of the year "Grupo Correo Gallego" (2014), Gold medal of the
University of Santiago (2014), Gold Medal of the Spanish Royal Society
of Chemistry (2015), award of the Galicia Critic (2018), Research Medal
of the Royal Galician Academy of Sciences (2019), Proof-of-Concept
grant of the ERC (2020) and two further tech-transfer grants: AEI 'Prueba de concepto' and CaixaResearch Consolidate (2021). In 2017 he was selected as member of the
European Academy of sciences (EURASC), and Spanish responsible of
EUCHEMS in Organic Chemistry. He is member of several editorial boards
and foundations, founder/first president of the Spanish group of
Chemical Biology of the RSEQ and, since 2021, vicepresident of the RSEQ.
His
current research interests split into two programs: the discovery and
development of metal-catalyzed processes, and to a chem-biomed program
in cellular catalysis and biosupramolecular chemistry.