Clara Viñas Teixidor - Biography#

After earning her degree in Chemistry, she began her professional career as a high school teacher in Girona city (1975-1976). After earning her degree in Pharmacy, she moved to University of Michigan to begin her PhD under a research contract (2/1/1981–31/1/1982). Back to Barcelona, she worked at the UAB in an industrial research project contract from UPHON, an environmental industry of industrial waste treatment (1/2/1984–31/7/1985). Pharmacist at the Hospital “La Salud” Sabadell city (1/8/1985-31/12/1985). Pharmacist at the Sabadell City Council Laboratory (2/1/1986-8/5/1989). Director and Pharmacist at the Sabadell City Council Laboratory (7/5/1989-7/5/1991). In 1991, she earned a CSIC Tenured Scientist position at ICMAB that followed by promotion to CSIC Scientific Researcher in June 2002. In April 2006, she promoted to CSIC Full Professor at ICMAB where remains active nowadays.

Prof. Viñas scientific interests and her main achievements have/are built based on her chemical and pharmaceutical training. She has been active in new synthetic approaches of boron compounds to be applied to new materials taking benefit of their self-assembly for energy (catalysts), environment (wastewater treatment), sensors/biosensors and medicine (particularly antibiotics, antifungal, antineoplastic; visualization of drugs by Raman-microscopy techniques and radioimaging in collaboration with experts who own the equipment. In most of these areas, Prof. Viñas pioneered the research.

In addition, of her 359 original scientific papers, she has published 20 book chapters with ISBN and the chapter 41 of the new edition of the Encyclopedia Science of Synthesis, Houben-Weyl Methods of Molecular Transformations. She is co-editor of the book “Boron-Based Compounds: Potential and Emerging Applications in Medicine”, which was chosen by Wiley as the representative book of Boron for “The Periodic Table of Wiley Books” in international year of the periodic table (https://www.wiley.com/en-us/IYPT).