Juan Carlos Estévez Cabanas

Juan Carlos Estévez Cabanas was born in A Estrada (Pontevedra) in 1964. He completed his Bachelor of Chemistry at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC, 1987) and then his doctoral studies, under the supervision of Prof. Dra. Mª del Carmen Villaverde Cameron-Walker and Prof. Dr. Ramón José Estévez Cabanas, presenting their Doctoral Thesis at USC in 1992. During the completion of his Doctoral Thesis, he carried out a predoctoral stay at the University of La Laguna-Tenerife, (1991) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. José Antonio Palenzuela López.

After completing his doctoral thesis, he moved to the Dyson Perrins Laboratory in the University of Oxford (Oxford, UK) to carry out, as a FPU fellow of the MEC, postdoctoral studies under the supervision of Prof. Dr. George W.J. Fleet (1992-1994), which he later supplemented with various short stays at the same Center and with the same supervision. In 1995 he moved to USC as Associate Professor at the ¨Campus de Lugo¨ of the USC, acceding to the status of Full Professor in 1997. Since 2012 he has been accredited as Professor of Organic Chemistry.

When he moved to ¨Campus de Compostela¨ of the USC in 2002, he started on this campus, under his supervision, a line of research on carbohydrate chemistry. In 2008 he was selected as a CIQUS researcher by an external commission appointed for this purpose.

In 2009 he moved to the Parc Cientific of the University of Barcelona to carry out a stay, as a fellow of the Xunta de Galicia, which has allowed to start a collaboration on structural, chemical and biological studies of peptides, with Prof. Dr. D. Fernando Albericio Palomera and Dr. Miriam Royo Exposito, as well as Dr. Jesús Jiménez Babero in the CICBiogune (Bilbao, España).

His research work, initially focused on the field of carbohydrates, mainly nitroderivatives of carbohydrates as a source of highly functionalized carbocyclic and heterocyclic compounds, evolved towards the synthesis of polyhydroxylated amino acids and Their oligomers. More recently, his research focuses on oligomers with the ability to behave as new materials (nanoparticles, gels and ice recrystallization inhibitors).

In his research work he collaborates with Professor George W. J. Fleet (University of Oxford, UK), Dr. Atsushi Kato (Toyama University, Japan), Professor Jesús Jiménez Barbero (CICBiogune, Bilbao, Spain), Professor Rosa M. Ortuño (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona), Dr. Miriam Royo (IQAC-CSIC), Dr. Raquel Soengas (Universidad de Oviedo, Spain) and Dr. Nuno Xavier (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal).