Prof. Montserrat Diéguez studied chemistry at the Rovira i Virgili University (URV) in Tarragona, where she received her Ph.D. in 1997 working in the group of Prof. C. Claver. After she moved to the Yale University with Prof. R.H. Crabtree (USA). She returned to Tarragona and becoming part of the permanent staff of the URV in 2002. In 2011 she was promoted to full Professor in Inorganic Chemistry. She is the chair of InnCat research group at URV. She has been involved in more than 60 research projects in the field of organometallic chemistry, steroselective synthesis, asymmetric catalysis and metalloenzymes. She is author of more 150 scientific articles and 14 books/book chapters with an H index of 41. She has supervised 11 doctoral thesis, 10 received the mention of European/International PhD and 4 were awarded with the URV's PhD Prize. She obtained the Distinction from the Generalitat de Catalunya for the promotion of University Research in 2004-2009 and in 2008 from the URV. She has received an ICREA Academia in 2009-2014 and 2015-2020 from the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, for research excellence and leadership. My main research interests are focused on the sustainable design, synthesis and screening of highly active and selective chiral catalysts for reactions of interest in the biological, pharmaceutical and organic nanotechnological industry. Her areas of interest include organometallic chemistry, steroselective synthesis and asymmetric catalysis using combinatorial and biotechnological approaches.
