Julia Contreras-Garcia

• European High Pressure Research Group Award (2013)
• Best thesis in Chemistry at the University of Oviedo by the Chemistry Association (2009)
• Prix of Excellence PhD in Chemistry at the the University of Oviedo (2009)
• Prix of Excellence Licenciatura (College) in Chemistry at the the University of Oviedo (2004)
• Best student in the promotion 2003 in Chemistry at the University of Oviedo (2003)
• Excellence in Erasmus (2002)
• Prix of Excellence at Bachillerato (High School) of Asturias (1999)
• Matrícula de Honor in COU (preparatory year for University) (1998)

• Developping hybrid strategies. Explore the potential energy surface of cluster and molecules. ECOS, 20000, Januray 2018-March 2022, PI
• Superconducting models. ECOS, 20000, Januray 2022-March 2026, PI
• Extreme-scale Mathematically-based Computational Chemistry, H2020, 9900000, September 2019-February 2026, Member.
• Construction of Tc indicators for binary hydrides. ANR, 303000, Septembre 2022-August 2026, PI
• Warter Power2: Single Fision Water Oxydation. Emergence, 60800, Septembre 2023-August 2025, PI
• Prediction in silico de Materiaux pour l'Energie. Grand Challenge GENCI, Mai-Octobre 2023, Member.
• Singlet fission to boost efficiency of multi-electron photooxidation,478000, January 2024-June 2027, local PI
• Chemistry of diamonds rain in icy giants, 294000, Member, October 2023-October 2026

• Mercator fellowship (Goettingen, 2020)
• Postdoctoral grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education (2010)
• Fulbright "Occasional lecturer fund" (2009)
• Fulbright - Ruth Lee Kennedy grant (2009)
• High Performance Computing grant for Paris (2009)
• F.P.U. (PhD grant) by the Spanish Ministry of Education (2004)
• Erasmus grant for North London University (2001)

Boards

• Responsable of the Theory axis at the GDR Sigma hole (2024-2029) Link
• HCERES Expert Pannel member (2022-2025)
• HCERES pannel member (2021)
• Vocal Grupo Espcecializado Quimica y Computacion RSEQ (2020-)
• IQCC Scientific Advisory Board (2023-)
• Chair of the European High Pressure Research Society (EHPRG) (2022-2025)
• FWO Chemistry pannel President (2021)
• Member of the IUCr commission on charge density (2021)
• Member of the Council for Sorbonne DAPS (Departement des Activites Physiques et Sportives) (2020)
• Secretary of the European High Pressure Research Society (EHPRG) (2018-2022)
• FWO Chemistry pannel member (2019)
• Counselor of the IUCr commission on charge density (2017)
• Mare Nostrum project committee
• Elected Member of the European High Pressure Research Society (EHPRG). List of members here
• Groupe Scientifique Français d'Excellence de Scienomics

Scientific committees

• Symposium: European Materials Research Society Fall Meeting - Symposium G (Warsaw, 2020)
• Conference: EHPRG 2019 (Prague, 2019)
• Conference: Sagamore 2018 (Halifax, 2018) Link
• Conference: ESPA 2018 (Toledo, 2018) Link
• Conference: ChemBond 2016 (Dresden, 2016) Link
• Conference: 1^st European Symposium on Chemical Bonding (Rouen, 2016) Link
• Conference: Joint AIRAPT-25- EHPRG 53 (Madrid, 2014):Chemistry and Molecular Systems section Link

International coordination

• Erasmus coordinator with Chemistry Department (Universidad de Oviedo)

• Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Computational Chemistry
• Member of the Editorial Board of Computational and Theoretical Chemistry
• Special Issue of Computational and Theoretical Chemistry on "Understanding structure and reactivity from topology and beyond". Handling Editor: Manuel Yanez. Guest Editors: Angel Marting Pendas and Julia Contreras-Garcia
• Ponctual PNAS editor

• ADF testing
• Collaboration with CRYSTAL

Journal referee

• Nature Communications
• Angew Chem
• Phys Rev Lett
• Chemistry European Journal
• ACS Catalysis
• Chemical Science
• Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
• Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
• Chemical Physics
• Journal of Chemical Physics
• Journal of Physical Chemistry
• Journal of Computational Chemistry
• Theoretical Chemistry Accounts
• Journal of Physics
• Molecular Physics
• Journal of Molecular Modeling
• Computational and Theoretical Chemistry
• Journal of the Mexican Chemical Society
• New Journal of Chemistry

Project/Position Referral for international academies

• MdC committees
• Agenge Nationale de la Recherce(ANR) (France)
• Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Spain)
• Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. (FCT), the Portuguese public funding agency for R&D
• Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) (Belgium)
• Agencia Nacional de Evaluacion y Prospectiva (ANEP) (Spain)
• Red Temática de Fisicoquímica Teórica (RedFQT) (Mexico)
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
• National Science Center (Poland)

HCERES

• ISA (Lyon, 2020)
• ISM2 (Marseille, 2022)
• ICR (Marseille, 2022)
• CMC (Strasbourg, 2022)
• ICP (Saclay, 2024)
• LAMBE (Evry, 2024)
• NIMBE (Saclay, 2024)

Associate Professor/PRAG comittees

• Poste PRAG Sports (SU, 2024)
• Poste 1799 (Marseille, 2022, Presidente)
• Poste 2522 (Strasbourg,2019)
• Poste 4546 (Poitiers, 2018)
• Poste 4303 (Paris Diderot, 2017)

Full Professor comittees

• Poste 1400 (Marseille, 2024)
• Poste 0595 Mathematiques (SU, 2024)

HdR jury

• Adele Laurent (Nantes, 2019)
• Frederic Guegan (Poitiers, 2024)

Thesis jury

• Eline Desmedts (VUB, 2024)
• Ioanna Lygatsika (SU, 2024)
• Maxime Ferrer (UAM, 2024)
• Miguel Gallegos (Oviedo, 2024)
• Saadi Chabane (SU, 2024)
• Lieven Beckaert (VUB, 2024)
• Mats Denayer (VUB, 2024)
• Mauli Causse (CEA, 2024)
• Sara Rozas (Burgos, 2024)
• Iker Ortiz de Luzuriaga (Basque Country, 2023)
• Xiang Xu (Basque Country, 2023)
• Frederico de Lacerda Ferreira dos Santos Martins (Girona, 2023)
• Eva Mochetti (Nancy, 2023)
• Romain Taureau (SU, 2023)
• Manuel Pedrón Laserna (Zaragoza, 2023)
• Alicia Rey Planells (Murcia, 2022)
• Francesco Belli (Basque Country, 2022)
• Xabier Deraet (VUB, 2022)
• Xabier Telleria (Basque Country, 2022)
• Ruben van Lommel (Gentt, 2022)
• Ransel Barzaga Guzman (Madrid, 2021)
• Rabii Larhlimi (Poitiers, 2021)
• Robert Benda (Orsay, 2021)
• Ion Mitxelena (Basque Country, 2020)
• Braulio Garcia Domene (PhD Thesis, Valencia, 2018)
• Jorge Gonzalez Rodriguez (PhD Thesis, Bilbao, 2017)
• Almudena Couce (PhD thesis, Barcelona, 2017)
• Joaquin Calvo (PhD thesis, Valencia, 2017)
• Laura Van Bergen (PhD thesis, Brussels, 2016)
• Benjamin Meyer (PhD thesis, Nancy, 2016)
• Roberto Álvarez Boto (PhD thesis, Oviedo, 2016)
• David Roca Lopez (PhD thesis, Zaragoza, 2016)
• Alfonso Gallo Bueno (PhD thesis, Oviedo, 2016)
• Ana Rodriguez Sanz (PhD thesis, Lugo, 2015)
• Songul Guryel (PhD thesis, Brussels, 2015)
• Eloy Ramos-Cordoba (PhD thesis, Girona, 2014)
• Javier Cerezo Bastida (PhD thesis, Murcia, 2013)
• Roberto Álvarez Boto (Master thesis, Oviedo, 2013)
• Pamela Moles (PhD thesis, Castello 2011)

Public media

• Opinion in "Rewriting the textbooks with a pinch of salt"

Conferences

1. CECAM "Discussion Meeting on Quantum Crystallography" (Lausanne, 2026)
2. Erice School Quantum Crystallography (Erice, 2025)
3. CECAM "Chemical Concepts from Theory and Computation" (Lyon, 2023)Link
4. Workshop: ChemTools (Paris, 2019) Link
5. Conference : CTTC (Quito, 2019) Link
6. Symposium ECM31 "Women in Crystallography" (Oviedo, 2018)Link
7. Conference : ESCB2 (Oviedo, 2018) Link
8. Symposium IUCr "Beyond conventional topological analysis of electron density"(India, 2017)
9. Conference : CTTC (Trujillo, 2016) Link
10. Workshop : Chemical concepts: definition and applications (Paris, 2015) Link
11. Conference : CTTC (Vietnam, 2014) Link
12. Conference : RCTF (Paris, 2014) Link
13. Workshop : Topological approaches to intermolecular interactions (Paris, 2013) Link

Organization of schools and Training sessions

1. Training session : >Brazilian Workshop on Computational Chemistry (Online, 2021)
2. Training session : ChemTools by the Ayers group (Paris, 2018)
3. Training session : Training session on NCI (Oviedo, 2018)
4. Training session : Training session on NCI (Hyderabad, 2017)
5. Training session : Hands-on session on NCI (Rouen, 2016)
6. Training session : Hands-on session on NCI (Paris, 2013) Link
7. Training session : Hands-on session on NCI (Brussels, 2012)
8. Training session : Hands-on session on NCI (Paris, 2012)

Teaching duties

Qualifications

• Habilitation à diriger des recherches (France, 2015)
• C.A.P. (Pedagogical training) in Chemistry (Spain, 2004-2005)
• Maitre de conferences (France, 2011)
• Ayudante-Doctor (Spain, 2010)

Online material

• Records of the Classes at the High Pressure School (Madrid,2015) Link
• DIY material on chemical bonding Link

Yearly charge

• Participation at the Women in Science day at College George Sand (Paris, 2021)
• Round table leader & intervention at IUPAC global breakfast, Sorbonne University 2019
• Creation of Women under High Pressure group Link
• Organizer of the Power Hour at the Gordon Research Conference in High Pressure 2016 Link
• Conference "Women in Science" at IUCr 2017 (Hyderabad, 2017)
• Session: "Women Under Pressure gathering" at EHPRG 2017 (Poznan, 2017)
• Gender Balance delegate at ECM31 (Oviedo, 2018)
• CTTC conferences: Aims

• Science for kids: El Monstruotren
• General Public conference: "What the heck is quantum chemistry?" (Colegio de Espana, 2017)

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