Arturo Villechenous Rojo

Arturo Villechenous Rojo studied his bachelor's in chemistry at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) in 2018. He went to the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela to carry out his Master studies on Organic Chemistry at the group of Prof. M. Eugenio Vázquez at CiQUS, working on the field of biological chemistry.

He completed his PhD in the field of organometallic chemistry at IMDEA Nanociencia in December 2024. His doctoral research focused on rhodium and iridium organometallic complexes for cancer research, particularly on developing strategies to monitor the activation and deactivation of switchable organometallic compounds inside human cells. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the McDonald group at Trinity College Dublin.