NICOLAS OTERO MARTINEZ

Nicolas Otero Martinez serves as a full-time Researcher in the Department of Physical Chemistry at the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vigo, specializing in advanced computational methodologies for molecular analysis.

He completed his Doctorate at the University of Vigo in 2012 with the thesis Application of electron density analysis methods to the study of the structure, stability and reactivity of nitrogen-containing aromatic heterocycles, supervised by Dr. Ricardo Mosquera Castro and Dr. Marcos Mandado Alonso.

His research concentrates on Quantum Chemistry and Physical Chemistry, employing electron density analysis to investigate structural properties and reactivity patterns in nitrogen-containing aromatic systems. This work bridges theoretical frameworks with practical applications in computational molecular modeling, particularly focusing on heterocyclic compounds critical to pharmaceutical and materials science.

Dr. Otero Martinez actively contributes to the QF3 Quantum Chemistry research group, where he advances methodologies for predicting molecular behavior through density functional theory and related computational approaches.