Mauricio Portiolli Franco

Postdoc

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Mauricio earned his Ph.D. at the Universidade de São Paulo (Prof. Ataualpa A. C. Braga) studying palladium-catalyzed Buchwald–Hartwig aminations via DFT and spending a year at the University of Oxford (Prof. John E. McGrady) doing theoretical studies of open-shell complexes. He then completed postdoctoral research at the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (Prof. René F. K. Spada) on spin-crossover phenomena and at UNICAMP (Prof. André L. B. Formiga) on ligand design for CO₂ conversion. He is currently a DSTrain postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oslo (UiO), developing the #HETCO2 project on ligand design and mechanistic strategies for CO₂ reduction entitled "Designing Electrocatalyst for CO2 reduction to C2 Products".