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computational enzyme design, molecular dynamics simulations, correlation-based tools, quantum mechanics, fullerene chemistry

Biography

Sílvia Osuna received her PhD in 2010 from the University of Girona (UdG) at the Institut de Química Computacional (IQC). In 2010, she moved to the group of Prof. Houk at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship. Sílvia is now an ICREA research professor at UdG. Her group was created thanks to the awarded 2015 European Research Council project - Starting grant project (ERC-2015-StG-679001) and focuses on the development of new computational tools and approaches for computational enzyme design. Sílvia has more than 100 research publications, and has been recently awarded the 2023 Spanish National Research Award – Maria Teresa Toral, 2021 EuChemS lecture award, the Catalan National Research Award – Young Talent 2019 from Fundació Catalana de Recerca i Innovació (FCRi), Young Investigator Award by Lilly and Royal Spanish Society of Chemistry RSEQ (2019), among others. Her group is currently funded by the European Research Council project - Consolidator Grant (ERC-2022-CoG-101088032), ERC- Proof of Concept (ERC-2022-POC-101112805), two I+D Spanish MINECO project (PID2021-129034NB-I00, PDC2022-133950-I00), and Human Frontier Science Program Grant (RGP0054/2020).

Activities

Employment (3)

Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats: Barcelona, ES

2018-01-01 to present (Department of Chemistry, Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi (IQCC), Universitat de Girona)
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Universitat de Girona: Girona, Catalunya, ES

2016-01-01 to present | Ramón y Cajal contract (Quimica)
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Universitat de Girona: Girona, Catalunya, ES

2013-12-01 to 2015-12-31 | Juan de la Cierva contract (Quimica)
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Education and qualifications (2)

Universitat de Girona Facultat de Ciències: Girona, Catalunya, ES

2005 to 2010 | PhD Chemistry
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Universitat de Girona: Girona, Catalunya, ES

2001-09 to 2005-07 | Chemistry Degree
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Professional activities (10)

Chemistry Europe: Leidschendam, NL

2021 to present | Member of the International Advisory Board of European Journal of Organic Chemistry (EuroJOC)
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Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe: Brussels, BE

2020 to present | Member of the Access Committee of the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE)
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Chemistry Europe: Leidschendam, NL

2020 to present | Member of the International Advisory Board of ChemPlusChem
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American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, US

2020 to present | Member of the ACS Catalysis Early Career Advisory Board
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Real Sociedad Espanola de Quimica: Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, ES

2021-06 | Marcial Moreno award
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Lilly España: Alcobendas, Madrid, ES

2019 | Lilly - Real Sociedad Española de Química award
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Fundació Catalana per a la Recerca i la Innovació: Barcelona, ES

2019 | Young talent award
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EuChemS: Brussels, BE

2017 | Young Researcher Award of EuCheMS Organic Division
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Real Sociedad Espanola de Quimica: Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, ES

2016
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Fundación Princesa de Girona: Girona, Catalunya, ES

2016 | Princess of Girona Foundation Research Award - FPdGi
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Funding (5)

Evolution of conformational and kinetic ensembles during functional transitions

2020 to 2023 | Grant
Human Frontier Science Program (Paris, FR)
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Computational evolution of enzymes through conformational landscape exploration

2019 to 2022 | Grant
Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología (Madrid, ES)
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NETMODEZYME

2016 to 2022 | Grant
European Research Council (Brussels, BE)
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ERC-2015-StG-679001

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DIREVENZYME

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Research Executive Agency (Brussels, BE)
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2013-CIG-630978

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Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (Madrid, ES)
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CTQ2014-59212-P

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Peer review (77 reviews for 20 publications/grants)

Review activity for Accounts of chemical research. (2)
Review activity for ACS catalysis. (28)
Review activity for ACS central science. (1)
Review activity for ACS omega. (1)
Review activity for ACS synthetic biology. (1)
Review activity for Angewandte Chemie. (11)
Review activity for ChemCatChem (3)
Review activity for Chemistry. (3)
Review activity for Communications biology. (1)
Review activity for Inorganic chemistry. (3)
Review activity for Journal of chemical information and modeling. (3)
Review activity for Journal of chemical theory and computation : (3)
Review activity for Journal of physical chemistry. (4)
Review activity for Journal of the American Chemical Society. (2)
Review activity for Nature Catalysis. (1)
Review activity for Nature chemical biology. (1)
Review activity for Nature chemistry. (3)
Review activity for Nature communications (3)
Review activity for Science. (1)
Review activity for The journal of physical chemistry. (2)