Biography:
Dr. Rocío Redón obtained her B. Sc. in Chemistry in 1993 at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and her Ph. D. in the same University, in 2002. During her Ph. D. studies, she had the opportunity of joined different Chemistry research groups, in 1997 and 1998 with Prof J.R. Dilworth at Essex and Oxford Universities; in 1998 with Prof. Ana Albeniz, and with Prof. Craig Jensen from 1998 to 2001 at Hawaii University. She also joined the research group of Ashok Kakkar in McGill University from 2012 to 2013. Finally, after one year of postdoctoral fellowship she obtained the position of an Associate Professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, where she actually works on the synthesis and characterization dendrimers and nanocomposites dendrimer-noble metal NPs, studying their potential catalytic applications and drug delivery properties. She has published more than 40 research articles in SCI(E) journals.
Title : Heck catalysis of palladium nanoparticles obtained in different reducing systems