José Alemán defended his Doctoral Thesis in 2006 in the field of asymmetric synthesis under the supervision of Prof. García Ruano. After completing a postdoctoral stay with Prof. Jørgensen (2006-2008) in the field of organocatalysis, he joined the Department of Organic Chemistry at UAM as a Ramón y Cajal researcher and was later promoted to Associate Professor and Full Professor in 2023. He has been awarded various research prizes, such as the Lilly Prize for the best doctoral student (2005), the award for the best Doctoral Thesis at UAM (2006), the Sigma-Aldrich Award for Young Researchers of the RSEQ (2013), the Lilly Young Researcher Award (2015), the José Barluenga-RSEQ Medal (2022) and Ignacio Rivas Medal-RSEQ (2025). His research focuses mainly on asymmetric catalysis and catalytic materials, and he is the author of 240 scientific publications. He has supervised 26 Doctoral Theses, more than 40 Bachelor’s and Master’s theses, and has secured 18 projects in various competitive calls. Since 2021, he has been Director of the Advanced Institute of Chemical Sciences at the Autonomous University of Madrid; in 2022, he was appointed Deputy Director of the Department of Organic Chemistry; since 2024, he has served as Vice President of the Organic Chemistry Division of the Royal Spanish Chemical Society; and since 2025, he has been a corresponding member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences.
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José Alemán
