Professor Isabel Rozas

Isabel Rozas was born in Madrid (Spain). After completing her BSc (hons) in Chemistry at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1981, and her 'Licenciado de grado' research (similar to a MSc) in 1982, her PhD research was embarked upon at the Instituto de Quimica Medica in the National Council of Research (CSIC) in Madrid, and the degree achieved in 1987 at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Thereafter, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at both the Department of Chemistry of the University of Saskatchewan (Canada) between 1989 and 1990, and the Department of Chemistry of Queen's University in Kingston (Canada) between 1993 and 1994. She worked as a researcher in the Medicinal Chemistry Institute (CSIC) until the year 2000, thereafter joining the School of Chemistry in TCD as a Lecturer. After being promoted to Senior Lecturer, and becoming a Fellow of TCD (2005), she became Associate Professor (later named Professor in) in 2011. She has supervised 17 PhD students and 4 MSc, earned approximately €2,000,000 in research income and published 159 peer-reviewed research papers. During 2009-2012 she served as External Examiner in Organic/Medicinal Chemistry at the School of Chemistry in NUI Maynooth and during 2012-2016 in the Department of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Chemistry (serving the Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine) at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Additionally, she has held positions as Director of the Medicinal Chemistry Moderatorship, member of the Fellowship Central committee, Head of Organic, Medicinal and Biological Chemistry at the School of Chemistry, Director of Postgraduate Teaching and Learning, Director of Research and Director of Global Relationships at the School of Chemistry, Director of Dublin Chemistry postgraduate program, Tutor and served in numerous College committees and selection panels. Moreover, she has served in different scientific committees such as the Irish panel of the ERA-Chemistry panel, the Irish Centre of High-End Computing or the XXIII EFMC-International Symposium in Medicinal Chemistry held in Lisbon in September 2014, and the WATOC Theoretical Chemist conference to be held in Vancouver 2021. Additionally, she has organised the first Medicinal Chemistry Ireland conference in 2016 (TCD, Dublin) and co-organised the second and third editions (DCU-2018, NUI-Galway-2021). Since 2019 she is an Editor of the prestigious journal Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters (Elsevier).

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