2024
December 13: Invited lecture at the RSC Symposium on Chemical Feedstocks for Sustainable Industry (London, UK): “Catalytic Upgrading of Terpenes and Fatty Acids into Functionalized Polymers”
November 8: Invited lecture at the SCQ mini-congress Highlighting Organic Chemistry in Catalonia (EuCheMS): “Photocatalytic Strategies to Rapidly Access Molecular Complexity”
October 14: Invited lecture at WS2 Polymer Synthesis of D-Carbonize (Rennes, France): “Creation of Functional Monomers from Carbon Dioxide”
August 20: Invited lecture at the Emerging Landscape of Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis symposium (virtual symposium at the ACS Fall meeting): “Metal-Promoted Stereoselective Formation of Densely Functionalized Small Molecules”
August 1: Invited lecture at State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Material Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology (China): “Catalysis to Create Value from Carbon Dioxide and Biomass”
June 4: Plenary lecture at the 12th Workshop on Fats and Oils as Renewable Feedstock for the Chemical Industry (Dortmund, Germany): “Fatty Acid and Terpene Oxides as Versatile Precursors for Biobased Engineering Macromolecules”
May 31: Invited Seminar at the University of Crete (Greece): “Taming and Shaping the Synthetic Chemistry of Organic Carbonates through Catalysis”
May 23: Invited Seminar at the Universidad de Valladolid (Spain): “Stereoselective Synthesis Empowered by Transition Metal Catalysis and Photochemistry”
April 11: 2024: Invited Lecture at 8ª-Jornadas Red CASI (Fuenterrabía): “Asymmetric Synthesis of Small Molecules Featuring Sterically Congested Carbon Stereogenic Centers”
March 8: Invited Lecture at the Autónoma University of Madrid (UAM): “Stereoselective Synthesis Empowered by Transition Metal Catalysis and Photochemistry”
February 26: Keynote lecture at the SISOC XIV (Torino, Italy): “Advancing the Synthesis of Congested Stereogenic Centers”
February 15: Invited lecture at the CaRLa Winter School on Homogeneous Catalysis (Heidelberg): “Transition Metal Catalyzed Formation of Sterically Challenging Stereocenters and Mechanistic Interpretation”
February 15: Invited lecture at the CaRLa Winter School on Homogeneous Catalysis (Heidelberg): “Sustainable (Polymer) Catalysis for a Greener Future”
January 30: Plenary lecture at the 13ª Trobada de Joves Investigadors dels Països Catalans, Secció Jove de la Societat Catalana de Química (Tarragona, Spain): “Striving towards Circularity in the Catalytic Formation of Biobased Polymers”