Dr Lia Sotorrios

Dr Lia Sotorrios

PDRA
lia.sotorrios@manchester.ac.uk

ABOUT

Lia completed her PhD in computational chemistry in 2020 at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) under the supervision of Prof Enrique Gómez-Bengoa. Her thesis consisted of mechanistic studies on diverse organic and organometallic reactions in collaboration with experimental chemists. She then obtained a position in Heriot-Watt University to work with Prof Stuart Macgregor. The focus of the research was the modelling of organometallic reactivity and analysis of the electronic structure and bonding of heterobimetallic complexes.

After 3 years in Edinburgh, Lia joined the group of Andrew Leach in The University of Manchester to work on boron chemistry. She is currently working in a computational solvation model that can help understand the complex mechanisms and kinetics that control the reactivity of boron-containing molecules.