Araceli G. Campaña was born in Lucena (Córdoba, Spain). Following a degree in Chemistry at the Universidad de Granada, she stayed for a PhD with Prof. Juan M. Cuerva and Prof. J. Enrique Oltra (2004-2008) working on radical chemistry mediated by Ti(III) and its combination with other transition metals and with water. In 2009, she moved to Madrid to join the group of Prof. Diego J. Cárdenas at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid where she carried out Density Functional Theory (DFT) -based calculations to explain synthetic mechanisms and experimental findings on organometallic reactions. In October 2009 she joined the group of Prof. David A. Leigh at the University of Edinburgh, to work on the design, synthesis and operation of new molecular machines involving dynamic covalent chemistry. In 2012, she was appointed as “Juan de la Cierva” postdoctoral researcher at the Universidad de Granada in the group of "Organic Chemistry and Molecular Electronics, FQM367".

InJanuary 2015 she was appointed as “Ramón y Cajal” researcher at the Department of Organic Chemistry of the University of Granada. In 2016 she received the ERC-Starting Grant awarded by the European Research Council to carry out the project “Design, synthesis, study and applications of distorted nanographenes. In 2019 she was promoted to Assistant Professor at the Department of Organic Chemistry of the University of Granada.

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