Manuel Ángel Ortuño Maqueda

Manuel Ángel Ortuño Maqueda did his BSc degree in Chemistry at Universidad de Almería. In 2014, he obtained his PhD in Theoretical Chemistry at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona under the supervision of Prof. Agustí Lledós and Prof. Gregori Ujaque. His thesis focused on the computational study of organometallic systems. In 2013, he did a predoctoral stay with Prof. Michael Bühl at University of St. Andrews (Scotland, UK) to predict metal NMR chemical shifts.

From 2015 to 2017, he was a postdoctoral associate in the group of Prof. Christopher J. Cramer at University of Minnesota (USA) working on homogeneous catalysts for biomass-derived polymers and metal–organic frameworks for natural gas upgrading. In 2016, he also took the role of junior scientific coordinator of the “Inorganometallic Catalyst Design Center” directed by Prof. Laura Gagliardi.

From 2018 to 2020, he was awarded with two postdoctoral fellowships, “Juan de la Cierva–Incorporación” and “Beatriu de Pinós”, to join the group of Prof. Núria López at Institut Català d’Investigació Química. His research centered on heterogeneous catalysis with metal surfaces and porous materials. During that time, he visited the group of Prof. Barbara Kirchner at University of Bonn (Germany) to compute ionic liquids using molecular dynamics.

In 2020, he joined CIQUS as “Investigador Distinguido” by Xunta de Galicia. His research lines seek to simulate complex chemical systems for catalytic applications across different atomic scales: molecules, porous solids, surfaces, and liquids.