Andreu Ros, Mª Inmaculada

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Herrera Valladolid, Javier

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Cuevas Bercovich, Katya

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Blasco Lanzuela, Teresa

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Dr. Teresa Blasco studied Chemistry at the Complutense University of Madrid. She carried out her PhD studies at the Catalysis and Petroleochemistry Institute in Madrid (CSIC) under the supervision of Prof. J. Soria, and gained her PhD in Chemistry in 1988 (Complutense University of Madrid). During her doctorate she investigated the strong metal-support interactions on supported metal catalysts, using EPR as the main technique Subsequently, she joined the research group of Prof. Michel Che during two years, from 1988 to 1990 at the Laboratoire the Reactivité de Surface et Structure at the Université P. et M. Curie in Paris as a Post Doctoral Fellow. During her post-doctoral stay she became a user of X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy techniques using Synchrotron Radiation facilities. She returned to Spain at the Institute of Chemical Technology (ITQ) in Valencia in 1990 as responsible researcher of the new solid state NMR spectrometer, and got a permanent position as Tenured Scientist of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in 1991. During this period she made a short stays of three months with the research group of Prof. J. Klinowsky at the University of Cambrigde, and of Prof. J. Sanz at the Material Science Institute of Madrid (CSIC). She was promoted to Scientific Researcher in 2006. The main research activity of Dr. Teresa Blasco is mostly focused on the characterization of solid catalysts and the investigation of reaction mechanisms in heterogeneous catalysts using in situ techniques, principally solid state NMR spectroscopy. Dr. Teresa Blasco is co-author of about 70 papers in high impact scientific journals and numerous communications in national and international conferences and has supervised four PhD works. She has recently published a tutorial review: “Insights into reaction mechanisms in heterogeneous catalysis revealed by in situ NMR spectroscopy” T. Blasco, Chemical Society Reviews (2010), 39(12), 4685-4702.

Botella, Pablo

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Dr. Pablo Botella (male): graduated in Pharmacy at the University of Valencia in 1988, received his PhD from the same university in 1993, and was awarded with honors in 1994. In 2003 he was selected as a Ramon y Cajal Researcher under the supervision of Prof. Avelino Corma at the ITQ, and in 2007 he was appointed as a CSIC Research Scientist at the ITQ.

He has been a Visiting Professor of the University of Vermont (VT, USA) in 2013. He coordinates the Nanomedicine Group at the ITQ, addressing medical nanoscale-structured material and devices for targeted delivery and controlled release of drugs and other biologically active agents. Special interest is dedicated to the development of organic-inorganic nanohybrid-based stimuli-responsive systems, as well as stable radioactive nanoparticles for enhancing diagnostic imaging. Also important in his research is the study of the immune reaction and protein corona formation after nanoparticle systemic administration, as well as its application to new cancer biomarker detection.

He has written more than 70 articles in high impact Scientific Journals and numerous presentations in congresses, with an “h-index” of 32 and is co-inventor of 10 patents, three of them related to a more environmentally benign industrial process currently used in a demonstration plant.

Concepción Heydorn, Patricia

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Patricia Concepción Heydorn, did her PhD work under the supervision of Prof. Jose Manuel López Nieto on the synthesis, characterization and catalytic properties of vanadium containing aluminophosphate catalysts (1992-1996) at the Institute of Chemical Technology (ITQ). Between 1997-1998 she has worked as a postdoc in the Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max Planck Geselschaft Berlin under the supervision of Prof.Karge, and between 1998-1999 in the Institut für Physikalische Chemie, LMU, München under the supervision of Prof. Knözinger. In 1999 she returned to the ITQ, Valencia, Spain, achieving a permanent position as Tenured Scientist of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in 2002.

Her research area is focused on catalyst characterization under reaction conditions in order to develop structure-activity relationships. Systems of interest are supported metal nanoparticles, metal oxide catalyst and zeolites. The main spectroscopic tools used are infrared spectroscopy (IR), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and Raman spectroscopy.

She is author of more than 40 publications and 3 patents on different aspects of inorganic, organic and material chemistry.

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).

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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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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