Prof. Dr. Mauricio Cattaneo

He obtained his degree in Chemistry from the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (Argentina) in 2003 and completed his Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences at the same institution in 2008. His doctoral research, “Synthesis and Physicochemical Properties of Novel Polynuclear Transition Metal Complexes”, focused on the preparation of ruthenium and rhenium complexes and the study of their ground- and excited‑state properties related to electron transfer and proton exchange.

In 2009, he joined the University of Washington as a postdoctoral researcher, contributing to the development of PCET molecular models and advancing the understanding of kinetic and thermodynamic aspects of multi‑PCET processes. Since 2011, he has been a member of CONICET and a professor of Physical Chemistry at the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán.

From 2013 to 2015, he carried out postdoctoral research at the Georg‑August‑Universität Göttingen with the support of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, working on multi‑redox molecular systems. In 2018, he conducted a research stay at Yale University through the Fulbright Program, developing new families of 2e⁻/2H⁺ molecular models. Between 2021 and 2023, he returned to Yale University as a visiting faculty member to further explore multi‑PCET reactivity and its implications for chemical transformations.

He joined the Guldi Group in 2026, where his current research focuses on excited‑state reactivity in molecular systems capable of performing multi‑PCET processes.