Méritxell Fillols was born in Perpignan, France, in 1998. She obtained a technical degree in chemistry from the University Institute of Technology Montpellier–Sète in 2018. During it, she performed a 3-month internship at Chalmers University of Technology under the supervision of Prof. Kasper Moth-Poulsen, working on norbornadiene-quadricyclane systems as solar thermal fuel. Afterward, she received a B.Sc in materials chemistry in 2020 from the University of Montpellier. After working one year as an analyst in a phytosanitary laboratory, she performed her first year of M.Sc. in materials chemistry in 2022, still at the University of Montpellier. She performed there a 3-month master’s project supervised by Dr. Olivier Dautel, working on the synthesis of benzothiophene derivates used as organic field-effect transistors. For her second year of M.Sc., she joined the University of Paris–Saclay, to follow a specialization in organic chemistry. She joined the Noël Research Group for her last master’s project, to work on the photochemical late-stage arylation of dehydroalanine-containing peptides in flow, under the supervision of Nikolaos Kaplaneris.
E-mail: m.a.b.fillols@uva.nl