Sílvia Osuna

Sílvia Osuna received her PhD in 2010 from the University of Girona (UdG) at the Institut de Química Computacional (IQC). In 2010, she moved to the group of Prof. Houk at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Since then, Sílvia has worked in computational design of enzymes of medical and pharmaceutical interest. Sílvia has more than 80 research publications, and been recently awarded the Marcial Moreno award by the Catalan division of Royal Spanish Society of Chemistry RSEQ (2021), the Catalan National Research Award – Young Talent 2019 from Fundació Catalana de Recerca i Innovació (FCRi), Young Investigator Award by Lilly and Royal Spanish Society of Chemistry RSEQ (2019), the young researcher award by the Royal Spanish Society of Chemistry RSEQ 2016, the 2017 Young Researcher Award of EuCheMS Organic Division, and the Princess of Girona (FPdGi) award - science category 2016. Her group is funded by the European Research Council project - Starting Grant (ERC-2015- STG-679001), the I+D MINECO project (PGC2018-102192-B-I00), and Human Frontier Science Program Grant (RGP0054/2020).