Background
Antonio Francés Monerris graduated from the University of Valencia in 2009. In 2011 he completed his Master's studies in Organic Chemistry at the Universitat Politècnica de València, where he did a research stay in a pharmaceutical company. That same year he began his PhD Thesis in computational chemistry at the Institute of Molecular Science (UV) under the supervision of Dr. Daniel Roca Sanjuán and Dr. Manuela Merchán in the QCEXVAL (Quantum Chemistry of the Excited State of Valencia) group. The Doctoral Thesis project studied the fundamental principles of chemical and photochemical damage to the nitrogenous bases of DNA through the use of sophisticated ab initio (from first principles) theoretical tools. In 2014, he did a stay at the University of Uppsala (Sweden) supervised by Prof. Roland Lindh, where he studied chemiluminescent reactions.
In 2017, Dr. Francés began his postdoctoral stage in Nancy (France) with Prof. Antonio Monari. He was recognized as a "High Level Researcher" by the regional government "Région Grand Est". In 2019 he won the APOSTD competitive postdoctoral contract funded by the Generalitat Valenciana, to work with Professors Antonio Monari (Nancy, France) and Iñaki Tuñón (Valencia). During nearly 3.5 years of post-doctorate in France, Dr. Francés conducted state-of-the-art studies related to excited state non-adiabatic dynamics and advanced QM/MM hybrid simulations of biological systems.
Antonio's return to Valencia was consolidated in 2021 with the granting of a Juan de la Cierva contract (reincorporation) financed by the Ministry of Science and Innovation, to investigate the Department of Physical Chemistry of the UV with Prof. Iñaki Tuñón. Later, he rejoined the QCEXVAL group as Assistant Professor. Dr. Francés is Principal Investigator of a national project that designs and studies light-induced anticancer therapy mechanisms based on new generation compounds.
Publications
Abdelgawwad, AMA; Xavier, JAM; Roca-Sanjuán, D; Viñas, C; Teixidor, F; Francés-Monerris, A
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Light-Induced On/Off Switching of the Surfactant Character of the o-Cobaltabis(dicarbollide) Anion with No Covalent Bond Alteration"
Angew. Chem.-Int. Edit. 60 2021
| 10.1002/anie.202111493
Borrego-Sánchez, A; Zemmouche, M; Carmona-García, J; Francés-Monerris, A; Mulet, P; Navizet, I; Roca-Sanjuán, D
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Multiconfigurational Quantum Chemistry Determinations of Absorption Cross Sections (?) in the Gas Phase and Molar Extinction Coefficients (?) in Aqueous Solution and Air-Water Interface"
J. Chem. Theory Comput. 17 2021
| 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c01083
Carmona-García, J; Francés-Monerris, A; Cuevas, CA; Trabelsi, T; Saiz-Lopez, A; Francisco, JS; Roca-Sanjuán, D
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Photochemistry and Non-adiabatic Photodynamics of the HOSO Radical"
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 143 2021
| 10.1021/jacs.1c05149
Carmona-García, J; Trabelsi, T; Francés-Monerris, A; Cuevas, CA; Saiz-Lopez, A; Roca-Sanjuán, D; Francisco, JS
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Photochemistry of HOSO2 and SO3 and Implications for the Production of Sulfuric Acid"
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 143 2021
| 10.1021/jacs.1c10153
Navarrete-Miguel, M; Francés-Monerris, A; Miranda, MA; Lhiaubet-Vallet, V; Roca-Sanjuán, D
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Theoretical Study on the Photo-Oxidation and Photoreduction of an Azetidine Derivative as a Model of DNA Repair"
Molecules 26 2911 2021
| 10.3390/molecules26102911
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