Carme Rovira
Barcelona University (Spain)
Carme Rovira is an ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona (UB, Dept. Química Orgànica). She did part of her PhD research in USA (North Carolina State University and Southern Illinois University) and obtained her PhD degree in Chemistry from the UB in 1995, working with J. J. Novoa. Afterwards, she spent three years (1996-1998) as postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute (Stuttgart, Germany), working with M. Parrinello. In 2002 she obtained a Ramón y Cajal position and moved to the Parc Científic de Barcelona and in 2003 she received an award from the Generalitat de Catalunya (« Distinció de la Generalitat per la promoció de la recerca universitaria », young scientist category). In 2007 she was appointed ICREA Research Professor and in 2012 she moved to the Department of Chemistry of the UB. Dr. Rovira is the author of more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals, mainly in the fields of Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Biology. In the last few years, her research has been focused on hemeproteins (peroxidases and catalases) and carbohydrate-active enzymes.
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