Javier Sardina is a co-founder and Director of the Scientific Advisory Board of MESTRELAB RESEARCH. He was born in Santiago de Compostela (Spain) in 1958. He was trained as a synthetic organic chemist at the University of Santiago de Compostela, where he received both his B.S. (1980) and Ph.D. (1985) degrees. From 1986 to 1988 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, working in the laboratory of the late Prof. Henry Rapoport. Currently, he is a Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Santiago and his research interests range from green organic synthesis to the development of scientific computer software.
