 Professor Juan Cámpora Juan Cámpora was born in Cádiz (Spain) in 1963. He graduated in Chemistry in the University of Sevilla in 1986. His Ph. D. Thesis was supervised by the Profs. Ernesto Carmona and Manuel L. Poveda (Univ. of Sevilla). It dealt with the organometallic chemistry of Nickel and its applications in Organic Synthesis. In 1990 – 1992, he moved to the Massachussets Institute of Tchnology, where he occupied a Fulbright postdoctoral position in the laboratorios of Prof. Stephen L. Buchwald. There, he focused on the chemistry of Titanium and Zirconium benzyne and metallacyclic complexes. After this, he returned to the University of Sevilla, and in 1996 he joined the newly created Institute of Chemical Research (IIQ), as a resident scientist. Since 2001, he is CSIC Researcher, and Group Leader. During the years 2000 – 2004 he was Head of the IIQ, and later he was Secretary of the Chemistry Comision of CSIC. Currently, he is coordinator of the Spanish node of the European Network of Excellence IDECAT. His main professional interestes are centered in the organometallic chemistry of transition elements, (particularly on late transition metal alkyl, alkoxo and amido complexes), and in Homogeneous Catalysis (olefin polymerization). |
