Originally from Gijón (Spain), Eva received both her MSci degree in Chemistry and her Ph.D. degree from the Universidad de Oviedo (Spain) in 1998 and 2002 respectively. The latter under the supervision of Victor Riera and Julio Perez. After a three-year postdoctoral period at the University of Strathclyde working with Robert Mulvey, as a Marie Curie Fellow, in 2006 she took up a Royal Society University Research Fellowship and Lectureship there. Subsequently she was promoted to Senior lecturer in 2010, Reader in 2011 and as a Professor in 2013. In 2019 Eva moved to the University of Bern where she is currently a Professor in Inorganic Chemistry at the at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
She has published over 190 peer-reviewed papers in the area and to date her research has been recognised with several prestigious prizes including the 2016 SRUK Emerging Talent Award, which honours the most promising Spanish scientist in the UK under 40, and more recently by the 2017 RSC Corday-Morgan Prize awarded to the most meritorious contributions to Chemistry. An elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) and the European Academy of Sciences her research has been supported by the SNF, EPSRC, UK Charities, EU (ERC-Stg-2011), industry and governmental bodies. She sits on the International Advisory Boards of Eur. J. Inorg. Chem, Organometallics, Chem Catalysis, Chemical Communications and Asian J. Org. Chem and she has presented over 160 invited lectures worldwide. Since January 2022 Eva is the Editor in Chief of Helvetica Chimica Acta, the journal of the Swiss Chemical Society.
Professional Information
Author Profile of Eva Hevia in Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Web of Science Researcher ID: M-7521-2015
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3998-7506
Eva Hevia in RSE ‘Women in Science Exhibition’
Eva Hevia in RSE ‘QU?Z-A-WH!Z’
Fellowships and Awards
2024 Elected Chemistry Europe Fellow
2024 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award
2023 Seyferth Lecture in Organometallics, MIT, Cambridge, USA.
2021 GDCh Arfvedson-Schlenk Prize for contributions to Organolithium Chemistry
2021 RSEQ Award for Research Excellence in Chemical Sciences
2019 GEQO/RSEQ Award for Research Excellence in Organometallic Chemistry
2019 Elected member of the European Academy of Sciences
2018 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE)
2017 RSC Corday Morgan Prize
2016 Emerging Talent SRUK/CERU Award
2013 Elected Member of the RSE Young Academy of Scotland
2011 RSEQ-Sigma-Aldrich Emerging Investigator Award
2011 ERC Starting Grant
2009 RSC Harrison-Meldola Memorial Medal and Prize
2006 Royal Society University Research Fellowship
2006 Ramón Cajal Fellowship
2003 Marie Curie Fellowship, Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Strathclyde
