Gloria Parrales

gparrales [at] berkeley [dot] edu

Gloria grew up in Troy, New York and earned her B.A. in Chemistry from Smith College. At Smith, she studied the mechanism of the iron-catalyzed oxidative α-amination of ketones with Prof. Alexandra Strom. She also spent a summer in Eric Jacobsen’s lab at Harvard University, where she worked on the enantioselective synthesis of silicon-stereogenic silyl ethers using hydrogen-bond-donor catalysts. She moved to Berkeley and joined the Hartwig Group in 2024 to pursue her interests in organometallic catalysis and stereoselective reactions. Outside of lab, Gloria enjoys hiking, knitting, baking, and taking dance classes.