Dr. J. Oscar C. Jimenez-Halla was born in Oaxaca City in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico. He obtained his B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering (1st Class Hons) degree from Oaxaca Institute of Technology in 2002. Then he got his M.Sc. degree from University of Guanajuato in 2005 and, supported by a Ph.D. student scholarship from Catalan government, he made his PhD studies at the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (IQCC) under supervision of Profs. Dr. Miquel Solà and Dr. Juvencio Robles working on reaction mechanisms and aromaticity of small inorganic clusters. During his PhD studies, he did research stays in the groups of Prof. Dr. Thomas Cundari (Denton, North Texas University, USA) and Prof. Dr. Gernot Frenking (Marburg University, Germany). From 2010-2012 he has been a postdoctoral research fellow in the groups of Prof. Dr. Gabriel Merino (CINVESTAV, Merida), Prof. Dr. Fahmi Himo (Department of Organic Chemistry, Stockholm University) and Prof. Dr. Holger Braunschweig (Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Julius-Maximilians Würzburg University) working on different reaction mechanisms of catalytic systems of organic and inorganic / organometallic reactions. Then, he joined the Department of Chemistry in 2013 as associate professor. He is the leader of the research group “Private Investigator Agency of Molecules” which is part of the consolidated Academic Workgroup “Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, Organic Synthesis and Polymer Physical Chemistry”. Our motto is “How can we help you?”.

His favorite hobbies are video games (Street Fighter and others similar… he’s becoming outdated for that!), going to the cinema, reading and writing fiction stories (or not?), listening to Reggae music, watching baseball games of the Guerreros de Oaxaca (Oaxaca Warriors) and meditating. He loves to meet people, learn new languages (if possible) and have more and more true friends. But what he loves the most is his son, Eithan.