Juan José Serrano Pérez

I am a Chemist and I have always worked in the borderline between Physics and Chemistry. Together with my research activity I have been involved in many teaching duties.

Initially, I worked as a Ph.D. student (2004-2008) and research fellow (2008) in the QCEXVAL group (Quantum Chemistry of the Excited State) at the Molecular Science Institute of the University of Valencia (Spain). I was awarded with a FPU grant (Ministry of Education and Culture of Spain: 2004-2008). My PhD thesis (2009) was focused in the area of quantum chemistry of biomolecules, specifically drugs which are used in photochemotherapy, under the supervision of Prof. Manuela Merchan and Dr. Luis Serrano-Andres, well-known experts in the field. I have used high-level quantum- chemical methods such as CASSCF and CASPT2 applied to the study of electronic properties for ground and excited states of biological systems. Regarding technical aspects, I acquired skills in the use of computational programs such as MOLCAS, GAUSSIAN and TURBOMOLE.

In addition, during the PhD I was a guest at the Heinrich-Heine University (Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry) in Dusseldorf (March-June 2007) in order to learn how to compute SOC in molecules with DFT/MRCI and Turbomole, supervised by Prof. C. Marian and Dr. J. Tatchen.

Later I was a post-doc researcher in University of Barcelona (Physical Chemistry Department/Molecular Materials Structure Group) during 6 months (November 2009-April 2010). There I studied systems which are interesting in OLED technology with TD-DFT, DFT/MRCI and CASPT2//CASSCF, supervised by Prof. J.J. Novoa.

As a postdoc I was awarded with a Marie Curie Grant (September 2010- September 2012) at Imperial College London (Department of Chemistry). I studied the role of conical intersecion seams in photochemical systems (ethene+ethene, ethene+benzene) supervised by Prof. M.A. Robb and Dr. M.J. Bearpark. My work was focused on the analysis of the seam at second order and mapping of potential energy surfaces.

Next I worked as a researcher at University of Valencia (Molecular Science Institute/Quantum Chemistry of Molecular Materials Group) in the field of optoelectronics, studying the photophysics of metal complexes used in LEC technology and other compounds used in solar cells.

Currently I am a teacher specialised in Physics and Chemistry.