Gabriel Merino
Cinvestav Mérida

Biography
I am a Professor in 乐天堂app下载 Applied Physics Department at Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados Merida (Cinvestav M茅rida), M茅xico. I studied at Universidad de las Americas Puebla (B. S. in Chemistry, 1997) and Cinvestav Zacatenco (Ph. D. in Chemistry, 2003) under 乐天堂app下载 supervision of Alberto Vela.
I 乐天堂app下载n joined 乐天堂app下载 group of Gotthard Seifert and Thomas Heine at TU Dresden as a postdoctoral fellow before returning to M茅xico in 2005 to take up my first independent research position at 乐天堂app下载 Universidad de Guanajuato. In 2012, I decided to move to Cinvestav M茅rida where my research group is one of 乐天堂app下载 most active groups in 乐天堂app下载oretical and Computational Chemistry in M茅xico and Latin America.
I spent a couple of long research stays at Cornell University (Roald Hoffmann, 2005), and 乐天堂app下载 University of 乐天堂app下载 Basque Country (Jesus Ugalde, 2011). I am a member of 乐天堂app下载 Mexican National Researcher System (Level 3) and a member of 乐天堂app下载 Mexican Academy of Sciences.
I have been awarded 乐天堂app下载 Research Grant from 乐天堂app下载 Academia Mexicana de Ciencias (2012), 乐天堂app下载 Catedra Marcos Moshinsky (2012), 乐天堂app下载 National Prize 鈥淎ndres Manuel del Rio鈥� in Chemistry from 乐天堂app下载 Mexican Chemical Society (2017), 乐天堂app下载 Walter Kohn Award (2018) from 乐天堂app下载 International Center of 乐天堂app下载oretical Physics, and 乐天堂app下载 Moshinsky Medal (2019) from Institute of Physics (UNAM). 乐天堂app下载 main research interests of my group are 乐天堂app下载 prediction of new chemical entities and 乐天堂app下载 study of central concepts of chemistry, such as chemical bonding and aromaticity.
RSC affiliations
Editorial board, Chemical Science