Arturo is from Mexico,  where he studied at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) and obtained a B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Chemistry in Prof. Tomas Rocha-Rinza group. He studied non-covalent interactions using quantum chemical topology, especially, Atoms in Molecules and Interacting Quantum Atoms methods. Later, Arturo joined Prof. Laura Gagliardi's research group at the University of Chicago, studying magnetic properties of transition metal complexes and actinide systems using multireference quantum chemistry methods, where he obtained his Ph.D.

Now, as a postdoctoral scholar in the Vlaisavljevich group, his research is focused on using relativistic methods to study actinide and lanthanide molecular systems.

Hobbies

• Biking
• Reading
• Basketball
• Video Games

Fellowships

• National Council of Science and Technology (CONACyT) fellowship for research internship at The University of Manchester (2019)
• Chemical Theory Center fellowship for summer internship at the University of Minnesota.
• Glenn T. Seaborg Institute fellowship for research internship at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Publications

1. Vallejo Narváez, W. E.; Jiménez, E. I.; Romero-Montalvo, E.; Sauza-de la Vega, A.; Quiroz-García, B.; Hernández-Rodríguez, M.; Rocha-Rinza, T. "Acidity and basicity interplay in amide and imide self-association". Chem. Sci., 2018, 9, 4402–4413. (link)
2. Sauza-de la Vega, A.; Guevara-Vela, J. M.; Rocha-Rinza, T. "Cooperativity and anticooperativity in ion-water interactions. Implications in the aqueous solvation of ions". ChemPhysChem, 2021, 22, 1269–1285. (link)
3. Sauza-de la Vega, A.; Salazar-Lozas, H.; Vallejo Narváez, W. E.; Hernández-Rodríguez, M.; Rocha-Rinza, T." Water clusters as bifunctional catalysts in organic chemistry. The hydrolysis of oxirane and its methyl derivatives". Org. Biomol. Chem., 2021, 19, 6776–6780. (link)
4. Sauza-de la Vega, A.; Duarte, L. J. ; Silva, A. ; Skelton, J. ; Rocha-Rinza, T. ; Popelier, P. L. A., Towards and Atomistic Understanding of Polymorphism in Molecular Solids.  Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2022, 24, 11278–11294. (link)
5. Aristizabal-Ferreira, V. A.; Guevara-Vela, J. M.; Sauza-de la Vega, A.; Martín Pendás, Á.; Fuentes-Pineda, G., Rocha-Rinza, T., "Computation of photovoltaic and stability properties of hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites via convolutional neural networks." Theor. Chem. Acc., 2022, 141, 19. (link)
6. Sauza-de la Vega, A.; Pandharkar, R. ; Stroscio, G. D. ; Sarkar, A.; Truhlar, D. G.; Gagliardi, L., "Multiconfiguration Pair-Density Functional Theory for Chromium(IV) Molecular Qubits". JACS Au, 2022, 2, 2029–2037. (link)
7. Guevara-Vela, J. M.; Sauza-de la Vega, A.; Gallegos, M. Martín Pendás, Á. ; Rocha-Rinza, T., "Wave function analyses of scandium-doped aluminum clusters, AlnSc (n =1 − 24), and their CO2 fixiation abilities". Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2023, 25, 18854–18865. (link)
8. Kunstelj, S.; Darù, A.; Sauza-de la Vega, A.; Stroscio, G. D.; Edwards, E.; Gagliardi, L.; Wuttig, A., "Competitive Valerate Binding Enables RuO2-Mediated Butene Electrosynthesis in Water". J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2024, 146, 20584–20593. (link)
9. Hertler, P..; Sauza-de la Vega, A.; Darù, A.; Sarkar, A.; Lewis, R.A.; Gagliardi, L.; Hayton, T.W., "A Homoleptic Fe(IV) Ketimide Complex with a Low-Lying Excited State". Chem. Sci., 2024, 15, 16559-16566. (link)
10. Kirlikovali, K. O.; Gómez-Torres, A.; Sauza-de la Vega, A.; Darù, A.; Krzyaniak, M. D.; Wasielewski, M. R.; Gagliardi, L.; Farha, O. K., "Electronically Tunable Low-Valent Uranium Metallacarboranes". Inorg. Chem., 2025, 64, 4749-4760. (link)
11. Sauza-de la Vega, A.; Darù, A.; Nofz, S. Gagliardi, L.; "Designing Molecular Qubits: Computational Insights into First-Row and Group 6 Transition Metal Complexes". Chem. Sci., 2025, 16, 12896-12905. (link)