A bit about myself

I was born in 1971 in Madrid (Spain).

I did my studies on Chemistry (1989-1994) at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), where I had the chance to learn a bit about Quantum Chemistry. Not enough with that, I went to King's College London (KCL) to do my MSc. in Theoretical Chemistry. During 6 months, I was struggling with CASSCF electronic excited surfaces to understand the mechanism of a [2+2] photocycloadition reaction. This was my first contact with Prof. M.A. Robb and the GAUSSIAN package but not the last!

Returned to Madrid at the UAM, I went to the group of Prof. M. Yánez and O. Mó. There, I carried out ab initio calculations to study multiple aspects of Hydrogen Bonds and Proton Transfer Reactions for my PhD thesis (1995-1998). During these four years I could visit some more times the KCL, but also the group of Prof. R. J. Boyd in Halifax and the group of Prof. J. Manz in Berlin.

After a semester of teaching at the UAM as Associated Lecturer I got a position at FU-Berlin as Research Assistant, to make the german Habilitation (1999-2004). During one year (2005-2006) I was Guest Professor at the FU Berlin. Since 2007 I am Heisenberg Fellow. In July 2007 I accepted a permanent position at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena.

Curriculum Vitae

Personal Data.

Name: Leticia González Herrero.
Date of Birth: 17 March 1971.
Place of Birth: Madrid, Spain.
E-mail: leti@chemie.fu-berlin.de

Oct. 89 - Jun. 94: BSc Chemistry. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.
Sep. 94 - Feb. 95: MSc Chemistry. Kings College London, London (UK).
Thesis: Theoretical Study of the [2+2] Photocycloaddition of α,β -Enones to Alkenes.
Jan. 95 - Dec. 98: PhD Chemistry. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid,Spain.
Thesis: Theoretical Study of Inter and Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonds.
Jun. 99 - Dec. 04: Habilitation in Chemistry in the group of Prof. J. Manz, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
Dec. 2004: Habilitation in Chemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Jan. 95 - Dec. 98: PhD studenship (FPU). Department of Chemistry, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid,Spain.
Feb. 99 - Jun.99: Part-time Associated Lecturer. Department of Chemistry, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain.
Jun. 99 - May 05: C1 Research Assistant at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
Jun. 05 - Oct. 05 : BAT Ib Research Assistant at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
Oct. 05 - Oct. 06 : Guest Professor at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
Oct. 06 - Jan. 07 : BAT Ib Research Assistant at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
since Feb. 07 : Heisenberg Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Internationalization of the Freie Universität Berlin : Participant of GATE GERMANY programs, coordinated by DAAD.

• Nov. 2002: Santiago de Chile (Chile)
• Dec. 2003: Brasilia-Rio de Janeiro-Sau Paulo (Brasil)
• March 2004: Monterrey-Guadalajara-Cuernavaca-Mexico DF (Mexico)

23/09/94-23/02/95: Erasmus Fellow. Department of Chemistry, King´s College London, England; (Prof. M. A. Robb).
21/07/95-23/10/95: Department of Chemistry, King´s College London,  England; (Prof. M. A. Robb).
10/08/96-03/11/96: Department of Chemistry, King´s College London, England; (Prof. M. A. Robb).
07/07/97-29/08/97: Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada; (Prof. R. J. Boyd).
21/06/98-17/07/98: Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Freie Universität Berlin; (Prof. J. Manz).
02/10/98-22/12/98: Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Freie Universität Berlin; (Prof. J. Manz).
05/11/00-17/11/00: Graduate School of Sciences, Sendai University, Japan; (Prof. Y. Fujimura)
25/11/02-15/12/02: Graduate School of Sciences, Sendai University, Japan; (Prof. Y. Fujimura)

Oct. 94 - Feb. 95: Erasmus fellowship (Stage at King's College London)
Oct. 94 - Dec. 94: Postgraduate fellowship from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
Jan. 95 - Dec. 98: PhD fellowship from Spanish Government.
1999: "Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado 1998/1999" (Best PhD of the year 1998/1999 in Chemistry)
Oct. 99 - Sep. 00: Alexander von Humboltd fellowship at the Institut für Chemie in the Freie Universität Berlin.
2005: SIGMA-ALDRICH Award from the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry for Young Researchers.
2006: Heisenberg Stipendium from the DFG.