Sílvia Osuna received her PhD in 2010 from the University of Girona (UdG) at the Institut de Química Computacional (IQC). In 2010, she moved to the group of Prof. Houk at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship. She obtained a JdC postdoctoral contract at the UdG, a 5-year RyC contract (RYC-2014-16846), and in 2018 an ICREA Research position.
The group of Dr. Osuna was established thanks to the awarded 2015 European Research Council project – Starting grant project (ERC-2015-StG-679001) and focuses on the development of new computational tools and approaches for computational enzyme design. Her group is currently funded by a European Research Council project – Consolidator Grant, two ERC- Proof of Concept grants, and two I+D Spanish MINECO projects.
She been recently awarded the 2023 Young Spanish National Award in Chemistry (María Teresa Toral), 2021 EuChemS lecture award, the Catalan National Research Award – Young Talent 2019 from Fundació Catalana de Recerca i Innovació (FCRi), the Young Researcher award by the Royal Spanish Society of Chemistry (RSEQ 2016), Research award by the Fundación Princesa de Girona (FPdGi 2016- Science category), among many others.