Short biography
José Augusto was born in Orvieto, Italy, in 1986. He obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2014 from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” under the guidance of Prof. L. Mandolini and Prof. S. Di Stefano.
In 2014, he relocated to the Netherlands as a postdoctoral researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology, in the group of Prof. E.W. “Bert” Meijer. This was followed by another postdoctoral experience in the group of Prof. Ben Feringa at the University of Groningen (2017-2019).
José Augusto began his independent career at the Adolphe Merkle Institute (AMI) of the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) in September 2019, establishing his research program that combines concepts and techniques from organic, supramolecular, and polymer chemistries.
He has been serving as a Group Leader at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), initially within the CELLEX-ICIQ Starting Career Program (2023-2025), and subsequently as an ICREA Research Professor (as of December 2025).
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