Scientific Programm

Plenary Lecture

Jose M. Goicoechea is the Veronica Siedle Professor of Chemistry at Indiana University. He carried out his undergraduate degree at the University of Zaragoza (Spain). After a brief research stay at Cambridge with Professor Paul Raithby, he moved to the University of Bath where he obtained a Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor Michael Whittlesey. Between 2003 and 2006, Goicoechea was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Notre Dame where he worked with Professor Slavi Sevov on anionic clusters of the p-block elements (Zintl ions). Prior to joining IU, he was a Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Oxford, U.K. (2006-2022).

Goicoechea’s research is focused on the design and synthesis of novel compounds based on environmentally abundant main-group elements (e.g. aluminium, silicon, phosphorus). This work ranges from purely fundamental studies (such as the synthesis of elusive small molecules and reactive intermediates), to more applied fields (catalysis and materials science). His work has been recognized by several prizes and awards including the Alexander von Humboldt Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award (2020), the RSC Main Group Chemistry Award (2018), and an ACS Organometallics Young Investigator Fellowship (2014).