EDUCATION:

Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Institut für Reine und Angewandte Chemie, Universität Oldenburg, Germany, 2005
Project: “API-Mass Spectrometric Investigations on the Mechanism of Organocatalytic Reaction”

Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Research in Mass Spectrometry, York University, Canada, 2004
Project: “Interaction of Transition Metal Ions with Amyloid ß Protein Pre-Aggregates”

Ph. D. in Chemistry by the School of Engineering & Science, International University
Bremen, Germany, December 2003
Dissertation: “Cucurbiturils as Molecular Containers: The Mechanism of Complexation of Small Guests, the Effects of the Inclusion on their Photophysical Properties, and Potential Applications”

M.A. Degree in Organic Chemistry by Alcalá University, Spain, July 1999
Graduate in Organic Chemistry by Alcalá University, Spain, July 1990

EXPERIENCE:

Lecturer of the Specialization Course at Alcalá University, Spain, 1995-98
Course: Photochemistry and Lasers. Industrial, Medical, and Biological Applications

Member of the Photochemistry Research Group of Alcalá University, Spain, 1990-98
Project: “Photoinduced Synthesis of Charge Transfer Complexes”

PUBLICATIONS:

• Mechanism of Host-Guest Complexation by Cucurbituril
Marquez, C.; Hudgins, R. R.; Nau, W. M. J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 5806-5816.

• Cucurbiturils: Molecular Nanocapsules for Time-Resolved Fluorescence-based Assays
Marquez, C.; Huang, F.; Nau, W. M. IEEE Trans. Nanobiosci., 2004, 3, 39-45.

• Exploiting Long-Lived Molecular Fluorescence
Nau, W. M.; Huang, F.; Wang, X.; Bakirci, H; Gramlich, G.; Marquez, C. Chimia, 2003, 57, 161-167.

• Selective Fluorescence Quenching of 2,3-Diazabicyclo[2.2.2]oct-2-ene by Nucleotides
Marquez, C.; Pischel, U.; Nau, W. M. Org. Lett., 2003, 5, 3911-3914.

• Two Mechanism of Slow Host-Guest Complexation between Cucurbit[6]uril and Cyclohexyl methylamine: pH-Responsive Supramolecular Kinetics
Marquez, C.; Nau, W. M. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 2001, 40, 3155-3160.

• Polarizabilities Inside Molecular Containers.
Marquez, C.; Nau, W. M. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 2001, 40, 4387-4390.

• Synthesis, X-ray Structure and NMR Data of 12-Amino-15-phenyl-2,5,8-trioxa-13-azabicyclo [9.2.2]pentadeca-1(14),12-diene-11,14-dicarbonitrile
Fuentes, L.; Lorenzo, M.; Galakhov, M.; Martin, A.; Marquez, C.; Gómez-Sal, P. Chem. Commun., 2000,18, 1775-1776.

• Amalgam (Na•Hg) Reduction of some 4-Substituted-2-amino-3,5-dicyano-6-methoxypyridines. New Evidence Regarding the Oxidation Step in their Synthesis
Fuentes, L.; Lorenzo, M.; Marquez, C.; Galakhov, M. J. Heterocyclic Chem., 1999, 36, 481-483.

• Synthesis and Structure of New Substituted 2-Dicyanomethylene-1,2-dihydropyridines
Fuentes, L.; Marquez, C.; Contreras, M.; Lorenzo, M. J. Heterocyclic Chem., 1995, 32, 29-32.