New doctor in the group: Dr. Oriol Planas

Oriol Planas successfully passed his PhD defense and became Dr. Planas! On February 23rd, Oriol presented his thesis entitled "Cobalt – Catalyzed C-H funtionalization: From mechanistic studies to synthetic methodologies", supervised by Dr. Xavi Ribas and Dr. Anna Company. The PhD jury was formed by Prof. Lutz Ackermann (University of Göttingen, Germany), Dr. Josep Cornellà (Max Planck Institute, Germany) and Dr. Alicia Casitas (Institut d'Investigació Química de Catalunya, Tarragona). Congratulations Oriol!

PhD Defense of Oriol Planas. From left to right: Alicia Casitas (ICIQ), Josep Cornellà (Max Planck Institute), Oriol Planas and Lutz Ackermann (Univ. Göttingen)