Speaker
Patricia Rodriguez earned her undergraduate degree in Chemistry from the University of Alicante (Spain). She conducted the final year of her undergraduate studies and her final project in Chemistry at Aarhus University (Denmark). She then moved to Germany with a prestigious Fellowship from the European Leonardo da Vinci programme to perform a practical project in the Leibniz-Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe GmbH (IVW) research institute.
In 2014, she started her PhD at the Biophysical Chemistry Department in the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion (MPI-CEC,) under Prof Wolfgang Lubitz’ supervision. Her doctoral work focused on employing electrochemistry and infrared spectroscopy to perform mechanistic studies on hydrogenases and bio-inspired synthetic catalysts, comparing the catalytic performance of bio-inspired catalysts and natural systems under the exact same conditions. Her PhD work was recognised by the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award Ernst Haage Prize in 2017.
After completing her PhD, Patricia took up a postdoctoral position at the Inorganic Spectroscopy Department in MPI-CEC. In 2020, Patricia joined Prof Kylie Vincent’s group at the Chemistry Department in the University of Oxford as a Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA), where she expanded her interests to the development of infrared spectroelectrochemical techniques for metalloenzymes engaged in catalytic turnover as well as to single crystal infrared microspectroscopy. Since 2021, she has been appointed as a Glasstone Research Fellow in Inorganic Chemistry at the Chemistry Department in the University of Oxford.
How to attend
This seminar is being held in person in STEM 3.1 (STEM Centre on Square 1, Colchester campus). You can also watch via Zoom (meeting ID: 916 2270 2239)
If you have any queries about this seminar please email Dr James Birrell (james.birrell@essex.ac.uk).