Short biography
Kilian Muñiz (1970 - 2020) was an ICREA Research Professor at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) in Tarragona since 2010. From 1990 to 1996 he studied Chemistry at the Universities of Hannover (Germany), Oviedo (Spain) and Imperial College London (UK), and in 1996 he graduated with a Diploma in Chemistry from Hannover University. From 1996 to 1998 he worked in the group of Prof. Carsten Bolm at the RWTH Aachen (Germany) to obtain his PhD in Organic Chemistry. In 1999/2000 he carried out research as a postdoctoral associate with Prof. Ryoji Noyori at Nagoya University (Japan). He started his independent research in 2001 at Bonn University (Germany) as a Liebig fellow and defended his Habilitation Thesis in 2005. The same year he moved to the University of Strasbourg as an Associate Professor. He was promoted to Full Professor in 2006. In November 2009 he moved to Spain and joined ICIQ as Group Leader.
