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.