Biography
Jordi was born and raised in Barcelona. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Chemistry and his PhD at the University of Barcelona, under the supervision of Prof. Jaume Vilarrasa. In 2010, he received a Spanish postdoctoral fellowship to join the group of Prof. Donna Blackmond at The Scripps Research Institute in California. Three years later, he took up a position in the Chemistry Department at Imperial College London as an IC Junior Research Fellow. In 2016, he was appointed as Lecturer at The University of Manchester, where he climbed the academic ladder, eventually becoming Full Professor. In 2024, he joined the ICIQ as an ICREA Research Professor. His current research lines reflect his academic journey, with the development of better synthetic methods guided by reaction mechanistic information.
In 2018, Jordi was awarded the Thieme Chemistry Journals Award; in 2019, the Young Researcher Award from the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ); in 2020, the Hickinbottom Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC); and in 2024, the Bristol Myers Squibb Lectureship (Scripps Research). In 2021, Jordi was awarded the FSE Students’ Award for “Excellence and Innovation in Teaching and Learning Practice”.
Plenary Lecture
Title: Past, Present and Future of Kinetic Analysis
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