Past Members of the Agency
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Visitors / Postdoc Fellows
Abril Carolina Castro Aguilera (PhD)
Currently at Hylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences,
University of Oslo, Norway
Former PhD Students
Leonardo Israel Lugo Fuentes
Co-supervisor of thesis: Dr. Rong Shang (University of Hiroshima)
Dr. Joaquín Barroso Flores (CCIQS UAEM-UNAM)
Ph.D. Thesis: Toward a Main-Group Catalytic Cycle for Molecular Hydrogen Generation from Water: A DFT Study of FLPs and Silane-Mediated Phosphine Oxide Reduction.
B.Sc. Thesis: Computational Study of Dimetallene Reactions, R-M=M-R (M = Al or Ga), with Iminoboranes and Reactivity with Gold(I) Complexes.
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Francisco Eduardo Rojas González
Main Supervisor of Thesis: Dr. José Luis Cabellos Quiroz
Ph.D. thesis: Effect of Temperature in the Properties of Atomic Nanoclusters of Aun (n=10 and 12) via DFT and Statistical Thermodynamics (in spanish).
Anderson Alvarez Quesada
Main Supervisor of Thesis: Dr. Gerardo González García
Ph.D. thesis: Study of Reactivity of Organohaloborane Complexes as Monomers for the Synthesis of Oligoboranes (in spanish).
M.Sc. thesis: Synthesis and Characterization of Oligoboranes.
Daniel Eduardo Trujillo González
PhD Thesis: Theoretical Study of Metallomimetic Reactions Using Boron- and Beryllium-Containing Compounds (in english) Double Degree signed with University of Girona (Catalonia)
Co-supervisors of thesis: Prof. Dr. Miquel Solà i Puig (Universitat de Girona)
Currently working as Associate Professor at the Universidad Santo Tomás in Colombia.
Maria Guadalupe Ortiz Aldaco
PhD thesis: Mechanistic Aspects of the Polymerization and Structure−Property in Oligomers: A Theoretical and Experimental Study (in spanish)
Main supervisor of thesis: Dr. Jose E. Baez
M.Sc. thesis: Ring-Opening Polymerization of L-lactide Using Bismuth Compounds as Catalysts. Theoretical and Experimental Study of the Initiation Stage (in spanish)
Co-Supervisor of Thesis: Dr. Jose E. Baez
B.Sc. thesis: Conformational Study of Substituted closo-Carboranes and Addition Reactions Between (1,2-dehydro-carborane) and Small Molecules Containing Several Functional Groups (in spanish)
Kevin Arturo Juarez Ornelas 1992-2021 - Always in our heart!
Ph.D. thesis: lambda3-Iodane Reagents in Organic Synthesis. Total Synthesis of Russophenol and Methodology for Nitration and Cyanation of Electron-Rich Aryls Mediated by Iodine(III) Reactants. (in Spanish)
Main Supervisor of Thesis: Dr. Cesar Rogelio Solorio Alvarado
Eloy Rodriguez de Leon
Ph.D. thesis: Partial Synthesis, Computational Study of the Mechanism of Formation, Use in the Synthesis of Polymers and Evaluation of the Vasorelaxant Activity of Carotenoids Obtained From (3R,3'R,6'R)-Lutein (in Spanish)
Main Supervisor of Thesis: Prof. Dr. Mamadou Moustapha Bah (Autonomous University of Queretaro)
Currently working as Associate Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro
Angel Renteria Gomez
Ph.D. thesis: Synthesis of Nitrogenated Heterocycles via a MCR/Post-transformation Protocol and Computational and Biological Activity Studies (in Spanish)
Main Supervisor of Thesis: Prof. Dr. Maria del Rocio Gamez Montaño
Currently working at the Texas A&M University as Post Doctoral Researcher
in the group of Dr. Osvaldo Gutierrez
Claudia Zavala Oseguera
Ph.D. thesis: Implementation of a program for calculating reaction rates (Eyring 1.0) and its Application in the Study of the Reaction Between the Hydroxyl Radical and Volatile Organic Compounds (in Spanish)
Main supervisor of thesis: Prof. Dr. Jose Gabriel Merino Hernandez (CINVESTAV Unidad Merida)
Prof. Dr. Annia Galano Jimenez (UAM-Iztapalapa)
Former Master Students
José Antonio Sandoval Mendoza
M.Sc. Thesis: Computational Mechanistic Assessment in the Unexpected Synthesis of Indolizines Using Lawesson and Woollins Reagents Co-supervisor of Thesis: Dr. Diego M. Andrada (Saarland University)
Currently holding a PhD position at the QCEXVAL-ICMOL, Spain.
Darien Isaac Martínez Valencia
M.Sc. Thesis: Effect of the Lewis Adduct in the Mechanism of the Grignard Reaction. Isolobal Analogy with the Chemistry of Dialanes. (In spanish) Co-supervisor of Thesis: Dr. David Cruz Cruz
Oscar Francisco Gonzalez Belman
M.Sc. Thesis: The Role of the Metal in the Dual-Metal Catalyzed Hydrophenoxylation of Alkynes (in english) Double Degree signed with University of Girona (Catalonia)
Co-supervisor of thesis: Dr. Albert Poater i Teixidor (Universitat de Girona)
B.Sc. Thesis: New Rhodium Complexes: Synthesis, Characterization and Reactivity (in spanish)
Main Supervisor of Thesis: Dr. Oracio Serrano Torres
Sergio López Azpeitia
M.Sc. Thesis: Development of Cubane-like (Ga-N) and Icosahedral-like (Ga-O) Clusters: Synthesis, Characterization and Computational Study of the Reaction Mechanism (in spanish).
Main Supervisor of Thesis: Dr. Oracio Serrano Torres
Edgar Salvador Fuentes Encinas
Main Supervisor of thesis: Dr. Gustavo Rangel Porras
Jaime Maldonado Estudillo
M.Sc. thesis: Structure-Property of poly(Ester-Uretanes) (PEUS): The Effect of Linear Aliphatic Diols [OH(CH2)mOH] Used as Chain Extenders (in spanish)
Main Supervisor of thesis: Dr. Jose Eduardo Baez Garcia
Former B.Sc. Students
Alan Osviel Cruz Lopez
Kylian Alfonso Martin Varela
José Ramón Gárate Ruiz
Kazuhiro Santos Tanamachi
Jorge Isaac Diaz Hernandez
B.Sc. thesis: Theoretical Study of the Electronic Structure and Reactivity of Scandium Clusters using GUGLOSAC.
Co-supervisor of thesis: Dr. Jose Luis Cabellos Quiroz (Department in Physics Research, UNISON)
Luis Alberto Segura Quezada
B.Sc. thesis: Chlorination, Bromination and Nitration of Arenes Using the System PhIO/AlX3 (X = -Cl, -Br, -(NO3). Computational Study of Nitration. (in Spanish)
Main Supervisor of Thesis: Dr. Cesar Rogelio Solorio Alvarado
Paola Denisse Falcón Torres
B.Sc. thesis: Structure-Property in Oligomers Derived From Aliphatic Polyesters: Effect of Linear and Branched Groups. (in Spanish)
Main Supervisor of thesis: Dr. Jose Eduardo Baez Garcia
Ignacio Migliaro
B.Sc. thesis: Computational Study of the Oxidative Addition of Heteroatom Trihalides to a Pt(0) Complex and the Search for Global Minima in Molecular Systems by means of a Simulated Annealing Algorithm (in Spanish)
Co-supervisor of thesis: Dr. Jose Luis Cabellos Quiroz (Universidad de Sonora)
Currently at the University of North Texas doing his PhD under supervision of
Prof. Dr. Thomas R. Cundari
Erika R Navarrete Medel
B.Sc. thesis: Computational Study of Substituted Cubane-like Molecules as Possible Ligands in Organometallic Chemistry (in Spanish)
