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About Raúl

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Biography

Raúl joined the Chemistry faculty at Rice in the summer of 2022 and is the Norman Hackerman Welch Young Investigator Junior Chair. Prior to joining Rice, Raúl was an Assistant Professor from 2018 to 2022 in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh. He was born in Chihuahua, México. During his undergraduate years Raúl worked intermittently as a research assistant in the laboratory of Prof. Sossina Haile (Caltech) in the summers of 2007-09, and spring of 2008. Later, he explored the formation of ionic membranes under the guidance of Prof. Beate Klösgen at the Southern University of Denmark in the spring of 2009. He received a B.Sc. in Chemistry from the Department of Chemistry at ITESM Campus Monterrey in 2010 defending a thesis under the direction of Prof. Jesús Angel Valencia on the synthesis of drug-loaded dendrimers. He then moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts to pursue a Ph.D. in Chemistry at Harvard under the mentorship of Prof. Ted Betley. After completing his thesis on the Coordination Chemistry and Electronic Structure of Iron Clusters, he then moved to Columbia University as a Columbia Nano Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow to work under the supervision of Prof. Colin Nuckolls. At Rice University, his group's research interests lie at the interface between synthetic organic and inorganic chemistry to create novel functional materials and catalysts capable of activating small molecules at polynuclear reaction sites, the creation of novel contorted aromatics, and the design of anion receptors for the removal of toxic chemicals from our environment. 
Curriculum Vitae
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Appointments

2024 - present          Faculty member of Rice Advanced Materials Institute, Rice Sustainability Institute, and Rice WaTER Institute.
                                    Rice University.
2023 - present          Associate Chair of Master's Degree in Applied Chemical Sciences
                                    Department of Chemistry, Rice University.
2022 - present          Norman Hackerman Welch Young Investigator Junior Chair, Assistant Professor
                                    
Department of Chemistry, Rice University.
2022 - present          Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh.
2018 - 2022               Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh. 
2016 - 2018               Columbia Nano Initiative (CNI) Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University, New York.

Education

2015     Ph.D. in Chemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
2012     A.M. in Chemistry, 
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
2010     B.Sc. in Chemistry, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) Campus Monterrey, Monterrey, México.

Select Awards and Honors

2024               Chemical Communications Emerging Investigator
2024               Named to The Atlas of Hispanic/Latinx Scientists 
2023               C&EN Talented 12 Class of 2023

2021               NSF CAREER Award
2020               ACS PRF Doctoral New Investigator Award
2020               SNI Level I (National System of Researchers in México)
2016               Columbia Nano Initiative Postdoctoral Research Scientist Fellowship.
2015               Poster Prize Award 5th European Conference on Molecular Magnetism.
2015               Fellowship from the 5th European Conference on Molecular Magnetism.
2015               Featured in "Las 30 promesas" (The 30 promises) emitted by Grupo Editorial Expansion
2012               ACS, Division of Inorganic Chemistry Student Travel Award
2011 - 2012   CONACYT/Fundación México en Harvard Research Award
2010               CONACYT/Fundación Mexico en Harvard Fellowship and Research Award, Fieser Graduate Research Award.
2008               Research Assistant Scholarship, Caltech.
2007               Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF), Caltech.
​2005 - 2010   Xorge A. Domínguez Scholarship
, ITESM.
2005 - 2010   Special Chemistry Scholarship L.C.Q., ITESM.
2004               Honorary Mention in XV Mexican Physics Olympiad.

Research Training Advisors

Postdoctoral: Colin Nuckolls 
Graduate School: Ted Betley 

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