Emilio Quiñoá Cabana

Emilio Quiñoá, a native of Lugo (Spain), obtained his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), the latter in 1985 for work on Marine Natural Products from the Galician Coast under the supervision of Prof. Ricardo Riguera. From 1985 to 1988 he worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Professor Phillip Crews at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), where he participated in the study of bioactive metabolites from marine organisms of tropical waters. He returned to UCSC in 1989 and 1990 as Visiting Associate Professor, where he taught several Courses for Graduate Students.

After his return to the University of Santiago, he became Associate Professor in Organic Chemistry in 1989 and Full Professor in 1998. He is co-author of more than one hundred scientific publications, several textbooks for students, 5 patent applications, advisor in 15 Ph. D. Theses and has received several research awards. Also, he has been director of the Infraestructure Networks of Support to Research and Technological Development (RIAIDT) of USC.

After working on the Development of Novel NMR Methods for the Assignment of Absolute Configuration in the last decade, his current research interests are focused on the study of Stimuli-Responsive Dynamic Polymers and their Applications in Nanotechnology.