María de la Merced Montero-Campillo

M. Merced Montero-Campillo is a theoretical and computational chemist and Científica Titular at the Instituto de Química Médica (IQM-CSIC) in Madrid since 2026. She graduated in Chemistry (2003) and obtained her PhD in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (2008) at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, followed by postdoctoral positions at Thompson Rivers University (Canada), the Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (Italy) and the Universidade do Porto (Portugal). She then worked at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid as a researcher (2012–2016), assistant professor (2018) and Profesora Permanente Laboral (2023–2025), with fellowships at Sorbonne Université's Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique in Paris (2019–2020) and at the Universidade de Vigo (2022–2023). Her publications focus on non-covalent interactions, in particular beryllium bonds, and their effects on molecular acidity and basicity.