Alessio Puggioli, a PhD student under Prof. Marcos G. Suero and Prof. Feliu Maseras’ supervision, has successfully defended his thesis today entitled Late-Stage Construction of Chiral Centers via Catalytic Carbyne and Atomic Carbon Transfer.
The members of the evaluation committee have been Prof. Dr. Max M. Hansmann from Technische Universität Dortmund (Germany), Prof. Manuel Plaza Martinez from Universidad de Oviedo (Spain) and Dr. Maria Besora from Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Spain).
What is your thesis about?
My thesis explores methods for installing molecular chirality directly onto complex architectures, by passing the need for prior functional group manipulation.
What applications can your thesis have in the future?
I hope this work will help accelerate drug discovery and contribute to the development of next-generation therapeutics.
The thing that I like most about my thesis is….
That I could work with both an experimental and computational approach.
What ICIQ moment you’ll never forget?
Every day a new person joins the group.
What do you wish you had known at the beginning of your PhD?
What a PhD truly offers outside the academic environment.
What advice do you have for someone who’s starting their PhD now?
I think the only way to start a PhD is without overthinking it.
From your experience at ICIQ, what do you think we can improve?
Sometimes it is forgotten that this is, first and foremost, a research institute, and that PhD researchers are still students.
Have you ever been emotional over an experiment/simulation? Why?
Of course. The main goal of a PhD is learning how to enjoy this without stressing out.
Chemistry is fun because…
It tries to grasp the invisible
What is your favourite molecule?
Iodobenzoic acid, the first molecule used by everyone on their first day in our group.
If you were a piece of lab equipment, what would you be?
The fume hood — a second home for many years.
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