Avelino Corma Canós

Corma, Avelino

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Avelino Corma (Moncofar, Castellón, Spain 1951), Professor at the Institute of Chemical Technology (ITQ-CSIC-Polytechnical University of Valencia), has been carrying out research in heterogeneous catalysis in academia and in collaboration with companies for nearly 30 years. He has worked on fundamental aspects of acid-base and redox catalysis with the aim of understanding the nature of the active sites and reaction mechanisms. With these bases has developed catalysts that are being used commercially in several industrial processes.
He is an internationally recognized expert in solid acid and bifunctional catalysts for oil refining, petrochemistry and chemical process, especially in the synthesis and application of zeolite catalysts.

He has published more than 1400 research papers, and is inventor on more than 200 patents. Over 20 of those patents have been applied industrially in commercial processes ofcracking, desulfuration, isomerization, epoxidation, chemo selective oxidation of alcohols and chemoselective hidrogenations. Corma earned his BS in Chemistry at Valencia University, PhD at Madrid under direction of Prof. Antonio Cortes, and spent two years postdoc at Queen´s University.

AWARDS:

– Heinz Heinemann Award of IACS – The International Association of Catalysis Societies (2020)
– Academic of Honor, Real Academia Canaria de Ciencias (2019)
– Blaise Pascal Medal for Chemistry, European Academy of Sciences (2018)
– The People’s Republic of China Friendship Award (2017)
– Spiers Memorial 2016/Royal Society of Chemistry (2016)
– 48th W. N. Lacey Lectureship  Caltech (2015)
– The Jacobus van´t Hoff Lecture 2015  TU Delft Process Technology Institute (2015)
– Hoyt C. Hottel Lecture, MIT (2015)
– Prince of Asturias Award for Technical & Scientific Research (2014)
– Honour Medal to the Invention from the Fundación García Cabrerizo (Spain) (2012)
– Grande Medaille de l´Académie des sciences (France), (2011)
– Scientific Merit of Generalitat Valenciana (2011)
– Gold of Medal for Chemistry Research Career 2001-2010 (2010)
– Eni Award (2010)
– Royal Society of Chemistry Centenary Prize (2010)
– Rhodia Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Prize for Science and Industry (2010)
– Bourdart Award in Advanced Catalysis (2009)
– A. V. Humboldt – J. C. Mutis Research Award (2009)
– Gabor A. Somorjai Award for Creative Research in Catalysis (2008)
– Karl-Ziegler-Lectureship Max Planck Society (2007)
– National Award on Science and Technology of México (2006)
– Alwin Mittasch of Dechema (2006)
– Paul Sabatier of the French Society of Chemistry (2006)
– Iberoamerican Fedaration of Catalysis Societies (FISOCAT) (2006)
– Cross Canada Lecture Award (2006)
– Gold of Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry os Spain (2005)
– Breck Award of the International Zeolite Association (IZA) (2004)
– Medal of Honor of the García Cabrerizo Foundation (2004)
– The Order of Merit Civil of Spain (2002)
– Eugene J. Houdry Award in Applied Catalysis (2002)
– F. Gault European Award on “Catalysis” (2001)
– Ipatieff Actr at Nortwestern University (2000-2001)
– King Jaime I Award on “New Technologies” (Spain) (2000)
– Iberdrola Science and Technology (Spain) (1998)
– F. Ciapetta award of the North American Catalyst Society (1998)
– CATSA in recognition of research excellence “Dinstinguished Visitor Award of the Catalysis Society of South Africa” (1998)
– Burdiñola Award (Spain) (1997)
– Profesores Visitantes de Iberdrola (Spain) (1996)
– Dupont Award on “Materials Science” (Spain) (1995)
– National Award Leonardo Torres Quevedo (Spain) (1995)
– Dupont Award (Canada)

DOCTOR HONORIS CAUSA

– Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Perú (2019)
– University Paul Sabatier (2019)
– University of Córdoba (2018)
– University of Cantabria (2016)
– University of Jaen (2015)
– University of Bucharest (2014)
– University Delft University of Technology: TU Delft (2013)
– University of Ottawa (2012)
– Universidad de Alicante (2010)
– Universität Bochum (2010)
– Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Ruhr-University Bochum (2010)
– Universidad de Valencia (2009)
– Universidad Jaime I (2008)
– Technische Universität München (2008)
– Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) (2008)
– Utrecht University (2006)

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND ACTIVITIES

– PRESIDENT Comité Estratégico de Innovación (CEI) of the Valencian Innovation Agency (AVI) (2018)  PRESIDENT Comité Científico de la Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) (2017)
– FOREIGN MEMBER of French Academy of Sciences (2016)
– Member of European Academy of Sciences (2018)
– PRESIDENT of the International Association of Catalysis Societies (2012)
– FOREIGN Member of the Royal Society (2012)
– Member of President´s International Advisory Council of King Abdullah University of Science KAUST (2011)
– Member of Royal Academy of Exact Sciences, Physics and Natural of Spain (2011)
– PRESIDENT of the European Association of Catalysis Societies. (2009-2013)
– Member of National Academy of Engineering NAE (USA) (2007)
– Member of Academia Europea, Chemical Science Section (1996)
– Member of Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain (1994)

MEMBER OF EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD

– Angewandte Chemie (2014 – Currently)
– ChemSusChem (2012 – Currently)
– Green Chemistry (2010- Currently)
– Catalysis Letters (2012-Currently)
– ChemCatChem (2012- Currently)
– Topics in Catalysis (2010- Currently)
– Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (1997- Currently)
– Journal of Catalysis (1999- Currently)
– Dalton Transaction (2000-2010)-
– Journal of Catalysis (1999- Currently)
– Catalysis Sciences, Technology, and Innovation (1997-1998)
– Chemical Communications (1997-2000)
– Catalysis Technology (1996-Currently)
– Japanese Catalysis Surveys (1996 – Currently)
– J. Molecular Catalysis (1995 – Currently)
– Catalysis Letters (1994- Currently)
– Catalysis Review S.C. and Eng. (1992- Currently)
– Microporous and Mesoporous Materials (1991- Currently)
– Applied Catálisis (1988-1992)

Díaz Cabañas, Mª José

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Dr. Maria Jose Díaz Cabañas studied Chemistry in the University of Valencia and, after some years working in the industry, she received his Ph.D. from the Universitat Politècnica de València (1999). She got a postdoctoral fellowship from Iberdrola (1999-2000) in the Institute of Chemical Technology (ITQ) with Professor Avelino Corma and later she continues working in the ITQ until 2003 when she reached a permanent position in the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Since 2007 she works as Research Scientist in CSIC.

Her research is focused in chemistry in the area of synthesis of microporous materials as catalysts important to industry to develop new products and to improve oil refining. Her work includes the synthesis and characterization of microporous materials, mainly zeolites. Besides to participate in several projects, she has worked in collaboration with companies as ExxonMobil, BASF, TOTAL, IFP, Albemarle Catalysts and TOPSOE.
Her main working areas are:

– Synthesis and characterization of new microporous materials
– Development of High-Throughput techniques applied to the synthesis of zeolites
– Synthesis of microporous materials at room temperature in biomimetic conditions.

She has published 70 papers mainly in Journals of high impact factor, among whom stands out 3 papers in Nature and 1 in Science. Besides she is coauthor of 28 worldwide patents, some of them transferred to companies.

She is member of the Spanish Society of Catalysis (SECAT) and the American Chemical Society (ACS).

Díaz Morales, Urbano M.

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“Dr. Urbano Díaz is a CSIC Research Scientist at the Chemical Technology Institute (ITQ) since 2004. Born in Valencia (1974), he studied chemistry at the University of Valencia, Spain, obtaining his doctorate in 2002 in synthesis and characterization of new zeolites delaminated. He subsequently obtained a Marie Curie European Postdoctoral Fellowship at the EniTecnologie Center (Eni SpA) in Milan, Italy, on the catalytic applications of porous organic-inorganic hybrid materials from functional silsesquioxanes. In 2004, he returned to ITQ where he has worked in the field of multi-core hybrid materials, layered solids, nanocomposites and biomaterials with a particular focus on the effective combination between organic and inorganic structural components. U. Díaz is the author of more than 85 articles and 13 application patents on different aspects of inorganic, organic and materials chemistry, compiling around 1800 citations (index h 24), being Principal Investigator and Coordinator in regional, national and  Europeans projects. In 2010 he was awarded the VI Idea Prize in Technology from the Generalitat Valenciana.”

Domine, Marcelo Eduardo

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Marcelo E. Domine was born in Córdoba, Argentine in 1969. He obtained his Bachelor (1992) and Master (1996) degrees in Chemistry from the National University of Córdoba (Argentine). He completed his PhD at the Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain) in 2003 under the guidance of Prof. A. Corma. Then, he carried out postdoctoral research at the Institute of Chemical Technology of Valencia (UPV-CSIC, Spain 2004-05), and at the Institute des Recherches sur la Catalyse et l’Environnement de Lyon (IRCELYON-CNRS, France 2005-07). In 2008, he re-joined Prof. A. Corma’s group as a Ramon y Cajal Program reintegrated researcher of CSIC. Since 2009, he has developed his work as Tenured Scientist of CSIC at the Institute of Chemical Technology.

His main research lines involve the synthesis and characterization of nano-structured materials based on supported metals and metallic mixed oxides, and their application as heterogeneous catalysts in acid–base and redox reactions, mainly focusing on the development of novel and sustainable chemical processes, such as the new biomass-derivatives transformations into valuable chemical products. In the last 7-8 years, M.E. Domine has consolidated his research group mainly working on novel catalysts and catalytic processes for the valorization of biomass and its derivatives, as well as other residues (i.e. municipal wastes, plastic wastes, etc.) for obtaining advanced bio-fuels and high-added value bio-chemicals).

M.E. Domine is co-author of more than 65 scientific articles published in high-cited index journals and of 30 patent applications. He has presented his work in more than 80 congresses (nationals and internationals) and has given 25 invited conferences. He has participated in 37 public funded projects being the principal researcher of 17 of them. Remarkably, one important part of his research work is centred in the development of catalytic processes with industrial application in collaboration with chemical, petro-chemical and bio-refining companies, participating in 26 contracts with industry and applying numerous patents (>10 in the last 7-8 years).

Marcelo E. Domine has been awarded with the “SECAT-Tesis Doctoral 2003”, SECAT, Madrid, Spain (2003), the “Estímulo a la Labor Universitaria 1995”, Córdoba, Argentine (1995).

Participation in Editorial Committees as Reviewer of more than 50 Scientific Journals, such as: RSC Advances, Green Chemistry, Chemical Communications, Angewandte Chemie Int.  Ed., ChemSusChem, Chemistry: A European Journal, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, ACS Catalysis, Journal of Catalysis, Catalysis Letters, Applied Catalysis A: Gral., Applied Catalysis B: Environ., Catalysis Today, Catalysis Communications, Catalysis Science & Technology, Chemistry of Materials, Fuels Processing Technology, Energy & Fuels, Waste & Biomass Valorization, among others. He is also member of the Editorail Board of Current Catalysis journal and has participated as Managing Guest Editor of Catalysis Today (2013-2015) and Nanomaterials journals.

He is Official Evaluator of ANEP (since 2009), external evaluator of research projects of the Junta de Andalucía and of PICT projects from Argentina (since 2012), as well as member of the evaluation committees of Marie Curie Fellowships – EU Program (2014 and 2015), among others. Since 2015 he is the CSIC representative at the EERA Program (JP-Bioenergy) and the UPV representative at the CBE JP platform, both of the EU.

Escolástico Rozalen, Sonia

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Sonia is a Tenured Scientist at the Instituto de Tecnología Química, ITQ. PhD in 2013 by Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), her work was devoted to gas separation membranes based on mixed ionic conductors and their applications in catalysis. She has co-authored 39 peer-reviewed contributions in international journals, and participated in more than 50 international conferences and national and European research projects, including industry contracts. In 2010, she received the Young Scientist Award by the European Material Research Society. She holds three patents on mixed ionic-electronic conductors based membranes. From 2015 to 2017, Dr. Escolástico joined the Institute for Microprocess Engineering (IMVT) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. In the present, she works in the Energy Conversion and Storage group of ITQ and her main activities deal with catalytic membrane reactors, microreactors and material science.

 

Feliz Rodríguez, Marta

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Marta Feliz Rodríguez was born in Castellón de la Plana (1976) and obtained her Bachelor in Chemistry at the Universitat Jaume I in Castellón (Spain). She did her PhD at Universitat Jaume I (1998-2003) directed by Profs. Rosa Llusar and Santiago Uriel on the development of cubane-type molybdenum and tungsten chalcogenide cluster complexes, with potential applications in catalysis and as optical limiters. During her post-doc, M. Feliz got expertise in reaction mechanism studies catalyzed by transition metal organometallic complexes by means of computational methods like DFT and QM/MM. In a first period (2004-2005), she carried out her research at the groups directed by Prof. Feliu Maseras and Prof. Carles Bo at the Institut Català d’Investigació Química in Tarragona (Spain). Afterwards, she moved to the group leaded by Profs. Odile Eisenstein and Eric Clot at the Institut Charles Gerhardt in Montpellier (France), where she worked for two years. In 2007, Dr. Feliz joined the Molecular Materials group directed by Prof. Llusar at the Universitat Jaume I, where she carried out combined theoretical and experimental catalytic studies with transition metal cluster complexes. After being promoted to Tenured Scientist at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in 2009, she joined the Institute of Chemical Technology (UPV-CSIC) in Valencia (Spain), where she works at the moment.

During her pre- and post-doctoral period, Dr. Feliz has collaborated in teaching courses at the Universitat Jaume I and Universitat Rovira I Virgili in Tarragona, where has been associated professor. Nowadays, she participates in two official master courses which belong to the Universitat Politècnica de Valencia and to the Universitat Jaume I, respectively.

At present, the principal research lines of Marta Feliz are focused on the development on coordination complexes and organic-inorganic hybrid materials based on transition metals with potential catalytic applications, and combined experimental and theoretical studies of reaction mechanisms.

García Gómez, Hermenegildo

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Hermenegildo García Gómez (Canals 1957) studied Chemistry at the University of Valencia (extraordinary degree award, 1979) and did his PhD at the Organic Chemistry Department of the Faculty of Pharmacy of Valencia under the supervision of Professor Miguel A. Miranda Alonso in the field of Preparative Organic Photochemistry obtaining his PhD degree in 1983 (Extraordinary Thesis Award). In 1983 he joined the Chemistry department of the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia chaired by Professor Jaime Primo Millo being Full Professor in 1996. He joined the Institute of Chemical Technology (ITQ) since its foundation in 1991. He did a postdoctoral stay at the University of Reading with Professor Andrew Gilbert (1987) and many other sabbatical leaves at the University of Ottawa joining the Laser Flash Photolysis group of Professor J. C. Scaiano with whom he has maintained a fluid collaboration since 1992.

Prof. García has focused his research in the field of photochemistry and heterogeneous catalysis where he has studied different materials like periodic mesoporous organosilicas, carbon nanotubes, diamonds nanoparticles and metal-organic framework among other materials. Prof. Garcia has published more than 450 scientific publications in journals in the area of Chemistry, Materials and Environmental Science and has directed 31 Doctoral Thesis. He has filed more than 20 patents, one of them has been commercialized and other two are in precommercial stage. He has given more than 40 lectures in different Congress and is member of the Advisory Council of Energy and Environmental Science, Photochemical and Photobiological Science and Journal of Molecular Catalysis. At present he is working in the field of photocatalytic hydrogen generation in collaboration with Prof. Vicente Fornés and in water depuration with Prof. Mercedes Alvaro.

2011 Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Bucharest
2011 Janssen-Cilag Award for Organic Chemistry given by the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry
2011 Distinguished Visiting Professor of University of Ottawa
2009 Alpha Gold Award given by the Spanish Society of Glass and Ceramics for the best innovation in the area.
2008 Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

González Cardenete, Miguel Angel

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Miguel Angel González Cardenete studied Chemistry at the University of Valencia, Spain, where he obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in 1995, a Master’s Degree (1997, Excellent) and finally a Doctorate in Chemistry (2001, Excellent Cum laude, PhD Extraordinary award). In his Doctorate under the supervision of Professors Manuel Arnó Giribet and Ramón José Zaragozá Cardells, he developed the synthesis of a variety of skeletons of terpenoid natural products and started collaborations to study their biological properties. Also, he joined the group of Prof. Gerald Pattenden at the University of Nottingham (UK) to study radical cascade reactions for obtaining polycyclic systems. At the end of the Doctorate, he went back to the Pattenden’s group as Postdoctoral researcher and worked on a project for the synthesis of one of the most potent antitumor agents known to date, the Phorboxazole A. Then, he made a Postdoctoral stay with a Fulbright fellowship in the group of Prof. Emmanuel A. Theodorakis at the University of California, San Diego (USA).

After three years of postdoctoral research abroad, he returned to Spain to work as “Ramón y Cajal” researcher at the University of Valencia, where he worked in two research lines, development of synthetic methodology and medicinal chemistry from natural compounds. There, he worked as Assistant Professor and senior researcher. In 2015, he got a position as tenured scientist at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and moved to the Institute of Chemical Technology.

Main lines of research:

  1. Sustainable synthesis of Natural Products, derivatives and analogues of pharmacological interest.
  2. Medicinal Chemistry

His research has led to more than 60 publications and conference communications and one patent.

His publication list as well as his h-index (h= 22, July 2023) can be seen in the following link: Publications in Scopus. (Link)

 

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Iborra Chornet, Sara

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Sara Iborra was born in Carlet (Spain). Currently she is Full Professor at the Chemistry Department of the Technical University of Valencia. She received her Ph. D. in 1987 at the Universidad de Valencia and in the same year she joined to the Chemistry Department of the Technical University of Valencia as Assistant professor.  She teaches Chemistry at the Technical School of Industrial Engineers, and in the Master of Sustainable Chemistry and in the Master of Chemical Engineers in the subjects of Fine Chemistry and Biorefineries respectively. Since 1991 she is member of the Institute of Chemical Technology (UPV-CSIC), working in the group of Prof. Avelino Corma. The main focus of her work is the application of heterogeneous catalysts (acid-base and redox) to the synthesis of fine chemicals, green chemistry and biomass transformation. In this area, she is author of more than 100 publications including articles, patents, conference proceedings and book chapters.

Jordá Moret, José Luis

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Jose Luis Jordá holds a PhD in Chemical Sciences and is a Tenured Scientist at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC).

Jose Luis obtained a degree in Chemical Sciences from the Universitat de València in 1996, receiving the Extraordinary Degree Award, and a PhD in Chemistry from the Universitat Politècnica de València in 2001 with the thesis entitled “Síntesis, caracterización y actividad catalítica en reacciones de oxidación selectiva de olefinas de materiales mesoporosos ordenados Ti-MCM-41”, directed by Prof. Fernando Rey at the Instituto de Tecnología Química (ITQ, UPV-CSIC). After two postdoctoral stays at the Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) with Prof. Jordi Rius and at the Laboratory of Crystalography (ETH-Zurich, Switzerland) with Prof. Lynne McCusker, Jose Luis returned to ITQ with an I3P postdoctoral contract in 2004, a Juan de la Cierva contract in 2005, and a position of Tenured Scientist of the CSIC since 2006.

Jose Luis is co-author of 66 articles published in high impact scientific journals, that have received more than 4700 citations, with an index h = 34. The publication list includes three articles in Science, two in Nature Materials and one in Nature, three scientific book chapters, the coordination of the book “Materiales porosos y de alta superficie” (2014), several international patents, and the participation in numerous national and international congresses, including several invited conferences.

The main lines of research are zeolite crystallography and structural studies by X-ray, electron and/or synchrotron radiation.

Jose Luis collaborates since 2006 as lecturer in the course “Characterization of Solid Catalysts” of the Master in Sustainable Chemistry of the Universitat Politècnica de València, taught at ITQ, and since 2015 is the director the CSIC Specialization Course about “Applied Laboratory Techniques”.

Jose Luis is responsible for the X-ray diffraction equipments at ITQ since 2008, for the social networks of the institute since 2013, member of the ITQ Communication Area since 2013, of the ITQ Scientific Dissemination Commission since 2014 and of the ITQ Equality Commission since 2018.

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