Acknowledgments
LVN acknowledges Prof Lee Cronin and Prof Mark Murrie for useful
discussions and proof reading of the manuscript. LVN acknowledges EPSRC
(EP/S030603/1)
for funding and the University of Glasgow Early Career Development
Programme (ECDP) for support.
Keywords: metal oxides, polyoxometalates, computational
chemistry, inverse design, porous materials
About the author: Dr Vilà-Nadal coursed a M.Sc. in Theoretical
and Computational Chemistry at the Rovira i Virgili University (Spain).
In 2011 she awarded a PhD in the same university under supervision of
Prof. J.M. Poblet and Dr. Rodríguez-Fortea, in her thesis she studied
the step-by-step building-block mechanisms for small, 6 to 12 metal
clusters, tungsten, and molybdenum oxides. The same year moved to the
University of Glasgow (UK) working with Prof Lee Cronin in a project
that found a new memory device based on a W-Se molecular metal oxide. In
2019 she was appointed as a Lecturer (PI). In her first independent
academic position, she stablished the Laia Vilà-Nadal group(LVN-group) to
explore the broad topic of self-assembly in metal oxides and study their
properties as porous materials, memory devices and energy storage.