Dr Eva Hevia

Education, Qualifications and Positions Held

1994-1998 BSc. in Chemistry (Inorganic Chemistry) Universidad de Oviedo.

1999 Honours Degree Thesis, Universidad de Oviedo,Spain, "Synthesis and reactivity of cationic compounds containing the fragment {Re(CO)3(N-N)}"

Research Advisors: Professor Víctor Riera and Dr. Julio Pérez

1999-2003 Ph. D. (Cum Laude) in Organometallic Chemistry, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain, formally awarded 4th November 2004, "New aspects of the organometallic chemistry of the rhenium and manganese tricarbonyl complexes with bidentate N-donor ligands"

Research advisors: Professor Víctor Riera and Dr. Julio Pérez

2003-2006 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, (most of the time as an EU Marie Curie Fellow), University of Strathclyde, UK.

Research Advisor: Professor Robert E. Mulvey

2006 Ramón y Cajal Senior Research Fellow, Universidad de Oviedo, awarded from March 2006 to March 2011 but resigned in October 2006.

2006-2010 Royal Society University Research Fellow (RS URF) and University Lecturer, University of Strathclyde, UK, Nov 2006-Sept 2014

2010: RS URF and Senior Lecturer, University of Strathclyde, UK

2011: RS URF and Reader, University of Strathclyde, UK

Research Prizes and Fellowships

• Sigma-Aldrich Emerging Investigator Award (2011). Awarded by the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry to the most promising member under 36 years of age.
• RSC Harrison-Meldola Memorial Medal and Prize (2009) awarded by the Royal Society of Chemistry for the most meritorious and promising original investigations published in chemistry by a scientist aged 32 or below. The citation for this prize read "for her outstanding original and innovative contributions to the synthetic and structural chemistry of the alkali-metals and the development of new multimetallic methods for selective metallations."
• Royal Society University Research Fellowship, University of Strathclyde, UK, November 2006-September 2014.
• Ramón y Cajal Fellowship, grant sponsored by the MEC (Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia Espaňol) which targets young researchers starting their independent careers, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain.
• Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado 2004, Universidad de Oviedo, Award of Universidad de Oviedo, Spain for the best Ph.D. Thesis in Chemistry of the year.
• Marie Curie Fellowship, Postdoctoral fellowship, University of Strathclyde. (Nov 2003-Oct 2005).
• F.P.U. Fellowship, Ph.D. grant sponsored by the MEC which targets the best students of the year in any degree (April 1999-December 2002).