Miquel Costas is professor of inorganic chemistry in the Department of Chemistry of the Universitat de Girona (UdG) and research group leader in the institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (IQCC).He obtained his PhD from the University of Girona and performed post-doctoral studies at the University of Minnesota. His current research interests are the exploration of coordination chemistry and homogeneous oxidation catalysis, taking nature as inspiration for reactivity and catalyst development