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

• Sorbonne JJOO counselor
• Responsable of the Theory axis at the GDR Sigma hole (2024-2029) Link
• HCERES Expert Pannel member (2022-2025)
• HCERES pannel member (2021)
• 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 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
• 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
• 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)

HdR jury

• Adele Laurent (Nantes, 2019)

Thesis jury

• 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)

Prelim (mi-parcours) jury

• Etienne Boutin (UPMC, 2018)
• Sehr Naseem-Khan (UPMC, 2017)
• Agathe Hubau (UPMC, 2017)
• Gaetan Rubez (Prelim, Reims, 2016)

• Stage jury

• Zeina Maroon (UPMC, 2015)

PhD Thesis reviewer (rapportrice)

• Almudena Couce (Barcelona, 2017)
• Miriam Pena Alvarez (Madrid, 2016)
• Ana Rodriguez Sanz (Lugo, 2015)
• Songul Guryel (Brussels, 2015)
• David Abbasi (Oviedo, 2015)
• Eloy Ramos-Cordoba (Girona, 2014)
• Angel Morales Garcia (Madrid,2014)

Public media

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

Conferences

1. CECAM "Quantum Crystallography" (Switzerland, 2024)
2. CECAM "Chemical Concepts from Theory and Computation" (Lyon, 2023)Link
3. Workshop: ChemTools (Paris, 2019) Link
4. Conference : CTTC (Quito, 2019) Link
5. Symposium ECM31 "Women in Crystallography" (Oviedo, 2018)Link
6. Conference : ESCB2 (Oviedo, 2018) Link
7. Symposium IUCr "Beyond conventional topological analysis of electron density"(India, 2017)
8. Conference : CTTC (Trujillo, 2016) Link
9. Workshop : Chemical concepts: definition and applications (Paris, 2015) Link
10. Conference : CTTC (Vietnam, 2014) Link
11. Conference : RCTF (Paris, 2014) Link
12. 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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