Department: Química Orgánica I

Centre: Facultad de Química

Campus: Gipuzkoa

Field of knowledge: Ciencias

Area: Organic Chemistry

Research group: Grupo de síntesis química y catálisis - GIC 21/041

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Email: a.landa@ehu.eus

Doctor by the Universidad del País Vasco - Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea with the thesis Empleo de las reacciones de Sharpless y de Mannich en la preparación de alfa y beta-aminoácidos respectivamente síntesis parcial de la echinocandina b y de una nueva familia de c-glico beta-aminoácidos 2002. Supervised by Dr. Claudio Palomo Nicolau, Dr. Mikel Oiarbide.

Aitor Landa obtained his PhD from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU, Spain) in 2002 under the supervision of Prof. Claudio Palomo and Prof. Juan Miguel Oiarbide. The thesis work consisted in the stereoselective synthesis of a novel class of sugar peptide hybrids through a acetate-Mannich reaction as a key strategic step and in a b-lactam based seteroselective access to a,g-dihydroxy a-amino acid-derived using the Sharpless AD reaction, respectively. He performed a postdoctoral research first, at the Institute of Nanotechnology in Karlsruhe (2002-2004 under the guidance of Prof. Mario Ruben) working in charge transport through single conjugate molecules, and second, at the University of Aarhus (2004-2006 under the guidance of Prof. Karl Anker Jørgensen) working in asymmetric organocatalytic reactions. At the end of 2006, he was awarded with a Ramon y Cajal contract (2006-2011) at the UPV/EHU (Department of Organic Chemistry I). Afterwards, he obtained a permanent position as a Research Professor in the same place. The research he is doing is mainly focused on asymmetric synthesis with and without metals.