Gonzalo De Gonzalo

Prof. Gonzalo de Gonzalo is an Associate Professor at the Organic Chemistry Department of the Chemistry Faculty at the University of Seville, Spain. He obtained his Degree and his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Oviedo, Spain. He spent hispostdoctoral stage at Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Milan, Italy, moving back to University of Oviedo with a Juan de la Cierva Fellowship. In 2010, he spent one year at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, working in the research of novel oxidative enzymes. He worked two years for the pharmaceutical company Antibióticos S.A.U. León, Spain, moving to Seville in 2014 as a Ramón y Cajal Researcher, getting his present position in 2019. His research is focused on asymmetric synthesis by using different approaches, including biocatalytic and organocatalytic procedures, as well as the development of concurrent chemo- and biocatalytic reactions. He has published more than 90 scientific papers, including two books focused on biocatalysis applied to the synthesis of valuable compounds.