This term 2023/24, Neyvis Almora Barrios has joined the Department of Physical Chemistry as a new Assistant Professor. The functions that she will develop will be both teaching and research.

Neyvis Almora Barrios obtained her bachelor degree in Chemistry at the University of Havana, Cuba. She then received the prestigious Dorothy Hodgkin Award from the EPSRC (UK) to complete her PhD at University College London (UCL) in 2010, under the supervision of Prof. Nora de Leeuw.

Her research focuses on computational chemistry of materials, combining density functional theory and interatomic potential calculations to study complex systems. She has extensive experience in structural modeling of different systems, including periodic solids, surfaces, nanoparticles and porous materials, performing geometrical optimizations, reactivity calculations and molecular dynamics simulations.

She joined the theoretical group of Prof. Nuria López at ICIQ, Tarragona, as a postdoctoral fellow of an ERC-Starting Grant project, in 2011. In 2013, he obtained a research grant, funded by MINECO (FPDI-2013-16194, as Juan de la Cierva). Since 2017 he is part of the experimental group of Prof. Carlos Marti (FuniMAT) in the at ICMol leading the line of computational studies of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs).