Clarisa Villegas Gómez was born in Puebla, México. After her studies in Chemistry, she received her Ph.D degree in 2009 under the supervision of Prof. Mariano Martínez at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, working on the isolation and synthesis of bioactive natural products. Then, in 2012, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Karl Anker Jørgensen at the Center for Catalysis, Aarhus University in Denmark. In 2016, she moved to the Department of Chemistry at Universidad de Guanajuato as an Associate Professor. Her research is focused on the isolation of bioactive natural products as well as the synthesis of natural products scaffolds by new methodologies in organocatalysis, inspired by the concept of diversity-oriented synthesis.
Clarisa Villegas Gómez was born in Puebla, México. After her studies in Chemistry, she received her Ph.D degree in 2009 under the supervision of Prof. Mariano Martínez at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, working on the isolation and synthesis of bioactive natural products. Then, in 2012, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Karl Anker Jørgensen at the Center for Catalysis, Aarhus University in Denmark. In 2016, she moved to the Department of Chemistry at Universidad de Guanajuato as an Associate Professor. Her research is focused on the isolation of bioactive natural products as well as the synthesis of natural products scaffolds by new methodologies in organocatalysis, inspired by the concept of diversity-oriented synthesis.