Dr. Valerio D' Elia

Valerio D’Elia from Avezzano (Italy) studied chemistry in Perugia, receiving his M.Sc. degree with full honors in 2001. He subsequently worked in the pharmaceutical industry (Dompé, L’Aquila), and later received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Regensburg (Prof. Dr. Oliver Reiser as supervisor) in 2009. He has been a researcher at LMU Munich in the group of Prof. Dr. Hendrik Zipse and at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Kaust Catalysis Center, KCC, Saudi Arabia), leading the joint laboratory between KCC and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in the team of Prof. Dr. Jean Marie Basset. Since 2015, he has been a faculty member at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC, Thailand). His main interest is the development of realistic and affordable homogeneous and heterogeneous organic and metalorganic catalysts for small-molecule activation.