Prof. Ramón Vilar completed his master’s degree in chemistry at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He then moved to Imperial College London, where he obtained his PhD in Chemistry in 1996 and later started his lecturer career.

From April 2004 to December 2005, he was Group Leader at ICIQ.

Ramón Vilar is currently Professor of Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry and is currently Director of Research in the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London.

The Vilar Group is interested in developing new molecular tools to study biological systems. To this aim, we are active in several broad research areas including synthetic (organic and inorganic) chemistry, spectroscopic and biophysical characterisation, chemical biology and molecular recognition.

Prof. Ramón Vilar is member of the Royal Society of Chemistry, American Chemical Society.

He has published over 125 scientific papers in international journals (H index: 40).