Bespoke Bimetallics for Chemical Cooperativity

Abstract

Originally from Gijon (Spain), Eva Hevia is currently a Professor in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Bern. Research in her group focuses on polar organometallic synthesis and catalysis, at the crossroads of inorganic, organic, and green chemistry. Some of her recent contributions include the use of cooperative bimetallic compounds for the activation of pharmaceutically relevant organic molecules, as well as the advancement of new methods that replace the use of toxic organic solvents in this chemistry by more sustainable and biorenewable systems. .

Eva received both her MSci degree in Chemistry and her Ph.D. degree from the Universidad de Oviedo (Spain) in 1998 and 2002 respectively. The latter was under the supervision of Professor Victor Riera and Dr Julio Perez. After a three-year position at the University of Strathclyde working as a Marie Curie Fellow with Professor Robert Mulvey, in 2006 she took up a Royal Society University Research Fellowship and Lectureship there. Subsequently she was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2010, Reader in 2011 and to Full Professor in 2013. Since February 2019 Eva holds a chair in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the University of Bern, Switzerland.

Elected to the Fellowship of Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), Scotland's National Academy, and to the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc), Eva has authored over 140 peer-reviewed papers to date and her research has been recognized with a several awards including the 2017 RSC Corday-Morgan Prize, which recognises the most meritorious contributions of chemists working in the UK, the inaugural edition of the SRUK Emerging Talent Award in 2016, which honours the most promising Spanish scientist researching in the UK under the age of 40 and the 2019 RSEQ-GEQO Award for Research Excellence in Organometallic Chemistry.

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