Cristina Navarro Reguero

Dr. Cristina Navarro Reguero works as Lecturer in Chemistry in the School of Natural and Environmental Sciences at Newcastle University since 2016. She is involved in lectures, tutorials and practical course lead for different modules in all Chemistry Undergraduate Programmes and the MSc in Drug Chemistry Programme. She is dedicated to teaching innovation, committed to student support and coordinates pastoral support for more than 500 students on her role as Senior Tutor. She is also Associate Director of EDI for the school and chair of the Athena Swan self-assessment team.

Cristina did her PhD in Organic Chemistry at Complutense University (Madrid). During that period she developed new synthetic methods based on conjugate addition reactions under Rhodium(I) and Palladium(II) catalysis. She was awarded with a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to work on enantioselective Gold(I)- Catalysis in the group of Prof. Dean Toste in UC Berkeley (California) for two years and then joined the group of Prof Christopher A. Hunter to study cooperativity in complex molecular recognition interfaces in the University of Sheffield. She moved with the rest of the group to the University of Cambridge in 2014 where she designed chiral information oligomers based on polyesters. During all these years working as a Synthetic and Physical Organic Chemist she was also involved in some of the teaching activities taking place in these institutions and joined other SRUK/CERU constituencies before the North East one was launched.