About us
Supervisors
Prof. Cristina Nevado
🇨🇭 University of Zurich
🎓 Resume
Cristina Nevado graduated in chemistry at the Autónoma University of Madrid in 2000. In October 2004 she received her PhD in organic chemistry from the same University working with Prof. Antonio M. Echavarren in late transition metal catalysed reactions. After a post-doctoral stay in the group of Prof. Alois Fürstner at the Max-Planck Institut for Coal Research (Germany), she joined the University of Zürich as an Assistant Professor in May 2007. In 2013 she became Full Professor at the Organic Chemistry Institute of the University of Zürich
She has published over 80 papers in international peer reviewed journals and was invited to more than 100 lectures at conferences and awards.
🏆 Awards and distinctions
2012: Werner Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society
2012: ERC Junior Investigator grant
2011: Chemical Society Reviews Emerging Investigator Award
2011: Thieme Chemistry Journal Award
🔍 Research Interest
The Nevado group aims to develop a multidisciplinary research program focused on complex chemical synthesis and new organometallic reactions and supported on three pillars:
- the development of new processes for the construction of C-C and C-X bonds based on late-transition metal catalysis;
- the implementation of such methods to streamline the synthesis of complex natural products;
- the study at a molecular level, both computational and experimentally, of relevant biological processes influenced by these advanced organic molecules such as cancer progression, cancer metastasis and cell motility.
⚙️ Project in CHAIR
#4 C-H functionalization reactions with alkenes as directing groups
About us
Supervisors
🎓 Resume
Cristina Nevado graduated in chemistry at the Autónoma University of Madrid in 2000. In October 2004 she received her PhD in organic chemistry from the same University working with Prof. Antonio M. Echavarren in late transition metal catalysed reactions. After a post-doctoral stay in the group of Prof. Alois Fürstner at the Max-Planck Institut for Coal Research (Germany), she joined the University of Zürich as an Assistant Professor in May 2007. In 2013 she became Full Professor at the Organic Chemistry Institute of the University of Zürich
She has published over 80 papers in international peer reviewed journals and was invited to more than 100 lectures at conferences and awards.
🏆 Awards and distinctions
2012: Werner Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society
2012: ERC Junior Investigator grant
2011: Chemical Society Reviews Emerging Investigator Award
2011: Thieme Chemistry Journal Award
🔍 Research Interest
The Nevado group aims to develop a multidisciplinary research program focused on complex chemical synthesis and new organometallic reactions and supported on three pillars:
- the development of new processes for the construction of C-C and C-X bonds based on late-transition metal catalysis;
- the implementation of such methods to streamline the synthesis of complex natural products;
- the study at a molecular level, both computational and experimentally, of relevant biological processes influenced by these advanced organic molecules such as cancer progression, cancer metastasis and cell motility.
⚙️ Project in CHAIR
#4 C-H functionalization reactions with alkenes as directing groups