Moisés Gulías studied at the University of Santiago de Compostela where he obtained his PhD in 2006 under the supervision of Prof. José L. Mascareñas. During his PhD he carry out a short stay at Stanford University (2004) with Prof. Barry. M Trost.

Between 2007 and 2009 he was Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellow in the group of Matthew J. Gaunt at the University of Cambridge. In 2010 he returned to the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela as an assistant professor (Parga-Pondal Researcher) and in 2011 he was selected for the Ramón y Cajal program. In 2015 he received the Thieme Chemistry Journal Award and the RSEQ Young Investigator Prize. From 2016 he is permanent professor (professor contratado doctor) at the University of Santiago de Compostela.  His research interests are mainly focused on discovering new methods that enable the rapid synthesis of complex structures based on the activation of unreactive bonds.