Dr. Carlos Vila is an Associate Professor in the Department of Organic Chemistry at the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Valencia (Spain). He obtained his Chemistry degree in 2005 (Extraordinary Award, Best Academic Record, and National Award from the Spanish Ministry of Education) and his PhD in 2010 (Excellent cum laude) from the University of Valencia.
He has carried out extensive international research training through research stays at the University of Leiden (Netherlands), Aarhus University (Denmark), RWTH Aachen University (Germany), and the University of Groningen (Netherlands), where he worked with Prof. Ben L. Feringa (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016). After returning to the University of Valencia as a Juan de la Cierva fellow, he was awarded a Ramón y Cajal (12 awarded in Chemistry in 2017) fellowship in 2017 and promoted to Associate Professor in 2023.
Dr. Vila’s research focuses on sustainable organic synthesis, including heterocyclic chemistry, asymmetric catalysis, organocatalysis, visible-light photocatalysis, palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling with organolithium reagents, and allylic alcohol activation. He has published over 100 articles in international peer-reviewed journals, with more than 4,300 citations (h-index 38), and has contributed extensively to conferences, book chapters, and competitive research projects. He is also actively involved in scientific evaluation and peer review and currently serves as Director of the Master’s Degree in Organic Chemistry at the University of Valencia.