Department: Department of Organic chemistry

Faculty: Faculty of Chemistry

Singular centre: Biological Chemistry and Molecular Materials Research Center (CIQUS)

Area: Organic Chemistry

Research group: Enzyme Inhibitors and Chemical Tools in Biology

Was part of these groups:

Email: concepcion.gonzalez.bello@usc.es

Personal web: https://www.gonzalezbello.com

Doctor by the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela with the thesis Síntesis de alcaloides de las amaryllidaceas mediante reacciones de cicloadición de arinos 1994. Supervised by Dr. Enrique Guitián Rivera, Dr. Luis Castedo Expósito.

Concepción González-Bello, graduated in Chemistry with honours at the University of Santiago de Compostela, obtained her PhD at the same university in 1994. During her PhD studies, she did two predoctoral stays, first in the University of Gent (Belgium, 1991) with Prof. M. Vandewalle and then in the Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, USA, 1992) with Prof. K. C. Nicolaou. After a postdoctoral stay as an EC-fellow in the University of Cambridge (UK) with Prof. Chris Abell (1994-96), she joined the University of Santiago de Compostela as an Assistant Professor in 1996, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2003 and to full Professor in 2022. She joined the CIQUS as a group leader in 2011. In 2021 she was awarded with the Ignacio Ribas medal from the Organic Chemistry Group of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ). Since February 2021, she is the treasurer of the RSEQ. Since May 2019, she is one of the managers of the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI), in the subarea "Chemical Sciences and Technologies (CTQ).