Pablo Rivera Fuentes
Professor
Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Pablo Rivera-Fuentes was born in 1984 in Mexico City. He received a BSc (2008) degree in chemical engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He subsequently moved to Zurich, where he received his MSc (2009) and PhD (2012) degrees in chemistry from ETH Zurich, working under the supervision of Prof. François Diederich. His PhD work was sponsored by the Scholarship Fund of the Swiss Chemical Industry (SSCI), and his dissertation was awarded the ETH Medal in 2013. Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), he carried out postdoctoral research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Prof. Stephen J. Lippard (2012-2014). He subsequently worked at the University of Oxford with Prof. Harry L. Anderson, FRS (Department of Chemistry) and Prof. Christian Eggeling (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine). He joined the Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, as Assistant Professor, on October 1, 2015.
Research Interest
Organic chemistry; Chemical Engineering.
