Prof. Antoni Llobet

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Full Professor of Chemistry at the Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona (Spain)
Group Leader at the Institute for Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Tarragona (Spain).

Professional Appointments and Key Dates

Sept 1977 – June 1982	Bachelors Chemistry Studies, Univ. Autonoma of Barcelona (UAB)
July 1982 – June 1983	Master, UAB (Prof. J. Casabo)
July 1982 – July 1985	PhD, UAB (Prof. F. Teixidor)
Aug. 1985 – Nov. 1987	Postdoc, Univ. of North Carolina, USA (Prof. T. J. Meyer)
Dec. 1987 – 1990 Feb.	Associate Prof. UAB
March 1990 – June 1990	Dow Corning-University of Sussex, Researcher
July 1989 – Dec. 1990	Scientific Officer, Commission of European Communities, Brussels, Belgium
Jan. 1991 – Sept. 1993	Senior Research Associate, Texas A&M University, USA (Prof. Sawyer & Martell)
Feb. 1993 – Nov. 2004	Associate Prof/Full Prof. (since 2000), Univ. de Girona (UG), Spain
Sept. 2011 – July 2013	Guest Professor at, Department of Bioinspired Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul (Korea)
Dec. 2004 –	Full Prof. UAB
Sept. 2006 –	Group Leader, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ)

Awards and Fellowships

1985	(2 years) Fulbright “La Caixa” grant. Post-Doct Uni. of North Carolina, USA (Prof. T J. Meyer)
1988	(3 months) Visiting Professor, University of North Carolina, USA (Prof. T. J. Meyer)
1989	(4 months) Visiting Professor, Univ. Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France (Prof. A. Deronzier)
1993	(4 months) Visiting Professor, Texas A&M University, USA (Prof. A. E. Martell)
1995	(3 months) Visiting Professor, Universität Basel, Switzerland (Prof. A. Zuberbühler)
2000	(1 month) Visiting Professor, Stanford University, USA (Prof. T.D. P. Stack)
2004	(3 month) Visiting Professor, University of Minnesota, USA (Prof. C. J. Cramer)
2015	(1 month) Visiting Professor, Universite Bretagne Occidental, France. (Prof. Y LeMest)
2000	Recipient of the Distinction Award for “Young Scientists” from the Catalan Government
2011	Recipient of the Bruker-Inorganic Chemistry Award, from Spanish Royal Society (RSEQ).
2012	Recipient of the “Hermanos Elhuyar-Hans Goldschmidt” lecture, awarded jointly by the RSEQ and the German Chemical Society (GDCh).
2018	Recipient of the “Animesh Chakravorty” Endowment Lecture by the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI).
2018	Recipient of the “Alexander von Humboldt Research Award” for a career achievement awarded by the Humboldt Foundation in Germany.

Referee

Member of the Editorial Advisory Board:

a) Catalysis Science and Technology (Cat. Sci. Technol.) from the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK. Since January 2014.

b) Inorganic Chemistry (Inorg. Chem.) from the American Chemical Society, USA. From January 2015 till December 2016.

c) European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry (Eur. J. Inorg. Chem.) from Wiley-VCH., Since January 2017

Referee of international journals:
Science, Nature, Nature Chemistry, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie, Chemical Science, Chemistry A European Journal, Inorganic Chemistry, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, etc.

Referee of projects from:
Department of Energy (USA), Petroleum Research Fund (ACS-USA), National research agencies of Holland, Italy, France, Argentina and Mexico and from all levels of Spanish national and local research system.

Evaluation of prestigious academic institutions:
Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Univ. of Leiden the Netherlands; The Institute of Basic Science at the Korean Advanced Institute for Science and Technology, (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea.

Member of the Eurobic Medal Award Committee funded by the European Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference.

Other

Recipient of multiple competitive research projects from the Local Government, Spanish Government, European Government and from the Petroleum Research Fund from the American Chemical Society.

Directed, as research advisor, 26 successfully defended PhD thesis in the field of inorganic chemistry and water oxidation.

Have held administrative positions such as: Director of the Chemistry Department (UG), Vice-President for Research (UG), President of the Foundation “University and Future” (UG).

Chairman of the international congress: “Molecules and Materials for Artificial Photosynthesis” held in Cancun, Mexico on February 2014, 2016 and 2018.

Publications and Invited Lectures

Number of total publications in journals with referees > 200

H index:

50 Web of Science
54 Google Scholar

Reaching close to 900 citations per year in 2014, 2015 and over 1000 in 2016-2019.

Invited Lectures at International Conferences and Departments around the world during the last 9 years > 120

Invited Lectures

2008	Departement de Chimie Physique, Université de Genève, Switzerland IU CINQUIMA, Valladolid, Spain COST Chemistry D40, Tarragona, Spain ICCC-38, Jerusalem, Israel REQOMED IV, Girona, Spain SOLAR-H2 Summer School, Angstrom Laboratories, Uppsala, Sweden SOLAR-H2, Bochum, Germany
2009	Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria IBITECS, CEA, Saclay-Orsay, France Freie Universtität Berlin, Germany Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy IU de Química Organometálica “Enrique Moles “, Oviedo, Spain ACC1Ó, Barcelona, Spain FIGIPAS -10, Palermo, Italy Molecular Science for Solar Fuel, Sigtuna, Sweden CONSOLIDER-INTECAT, Teruel, Spain
2010	Frontiers in Inorganic Chemistry” (FIC-2010), Kolkata, India ORCAS- 2010, Friday Harbour, WA, USA ChemComm Symposium, Osaka, Japan ChemComm Symposium, Seoul, South Korea NiKas-Symposium (CaSuS Prog.), Göttingen, Germany EUROBIC, Tessaloniki, Greece IRMG, Erlagen, Germany ISHC-17, Poznan, Poland SOLAR H2 Berlin, Germany CONSOLIDER-INTECAT, Tarragona, Spain
2011	University College, Dublin, Ireland ICMAB, Barcelona, Spain 8th International School of Organometallic Chemistry, Camerino, Italy ZING Conferences, Cancún, Mexico Gordon Conference on Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms, Galveston, TX, USA EICC-1, University of Manchester, UK XXIX Jornadas Chilenas de Química, Quinamávida, Chile SOLAR H2, Gottröra, Sweden Escuela de Verano Fotónica y Fotovoltáica, Tarragona, Spain UNIST Workshop, Ulsan, South Korea Gordon Conference on Renewable Energy, Ventura, CA, USA
2012	School of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering, University College Dublin, Ireland 8th ECHEMS Meeting, Bertinoro, Italy QIES-2012, University of Girona, Catalonia, Spain International Conf. on Nanostructured Systems for Solar Fuel Production, Mallorca, Spain Département de Chimie Moléculaire, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, Solar to Fuels: Towards an Artificial Leaf, Imperial College, London AsBIC-2012, The 6th Asian Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference, Hong Kong, China Institut für Anorganische Chemie-University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Holland 3rd International Symposium on Solar Cells and Solar Fuels, Dalian, China. Intl. Symp. on Activation of O2 & Homogeneous Cat. Ox. (ADHOC 2012), Jerusalem, Israel PERSPECT H2O COST MEETING. EU-Cost Action CM1202, Brussels, Belgique
2013	Fakultät für Chemie, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany Institut für Chemie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany Solar Fuels Meeting, Univ. Jaume I, Castello, Spain Solar Fuels Summer School (Technische Universität Darmstadt), Ellwangen, Germany COST MEETING EU-Cost Action CM1205, Utrecht, Holland School of Chemistry & Chemical Biology -University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland Department of chemistry, Stockholm University, Sweden Simposium Química Organometálica y Catálisis Homogénea,RSQE, Santander, Spain Wissenschaftsforum Chemie 2013, Darmstadt, Germany MRS Spring Meeting. Materials Research Society, San Francisco, USA PERSPECT H2O COST MEETING. EU-Cost Action CM1202, Prague, Czech Republic Symposium: “Impact of the Coordination Chemistry in 100 Years”, UNAM, Mexico D.F. Department of Chemistry- University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
2014	ICFO, Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain Université Aix Marseille, Marseille, France University of Leiden, Leiden, Holland EUROBIC-12, University of Zürich, Switzerland ACS, Renewable Energy Generation at Interface Theory-Experiment, San Francisco, USA Sustainable Hydrogen and Fuels-Status and Perspectives, Rostock, Germany Challenges and Opportunities Solar Driven Fuels Synthesis, Imperial College, London, UK KAUST Catalysis Center, University of KAUST, Saudi Arabia
2015	Residència d’Investigadors CSIC, Barcelona, Spain Departemente de Chimie, Université, Bretagne de Occidentale, Brest, France Laboratoire d’electrochimie moleculaire, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France Ecole Doctorale de Chimie Moléculaire, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France Laboratoire de Chimie et Biochimie, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France Departement de Chimie, Universite de Nantes, France School of Chemistry, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK ICIQ-Unicat Summer School, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Berlin, Germany Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany Nanostructured materials for light harvesting technologies, IMDEA Mat., Madrid, Spain International Conference on Photochemistry, Jeju Island, Korea ACS Fall Meeting “Innovation: From Discovery to Application“, Boston, USA PERSPECT-H2O COST Action CM1202, Gdánsk, Poland 6th EuCheMS Conference on Nitrogen Ligands, Beaune, France Pacifichem 2015 Homogeneous Water Splitting Reactions, Hawai, USA
2016	KAUST Artificial Photosynthesis Meeting, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia 2nd Molecules and Materials For Artificial Photosynthesis Conference, Cancun, Mexico Dalton 2016 Joint Interests Group Meeting, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination, Toulouse, France Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Beijing University, Beijing, China Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 42nd International Conference on Coordination Chemistry, Brest, France KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) Daejeon, Korea Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, New York, USA 252 ACS Meeting, Philadelphia, Manipulating Energy and ET in Molec. and Devices, USA. Perspect-H20 Final Cost Meeting, Milazzo, Italy. Solar Fuels i-Core meeting, Kibbutz Nahsholim Hotel, Israel. Cecam, Interface processes in photochemical water splitting: Theory&Exp, Lausanne, CH. Department of Chemistry, University of Fribourg, CH. SERC-Conf-2016, Energy Storage: Funda. to App., Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA Department of Chemistry, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Vienna, Austria Department of Chemistry, Stockholm University, Swede
2017	Umeå Renewable Energy Meeting 2017, Umea, Sweden Carisma COST meeting, Lisbon, Portugal EuChems Inorganic Chemistry Conference, EICC-4, Copenhagen, Denmark XXXVI Reunión bienal de la Real Sociedad Española de Química, Sitges, Spain 6th SolTech Conference, 2017, Solar GoHybrid, Munich, Germany 1st Ulm Symposium on Solar-Driven Chemistry, Ulm, Germany Department of Chemistry, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel Department of Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Revohov, Israel
2018	5th Int. Workshop on Solar Energy for Sustain., Nanyang Technological Uni. Singapore Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (HOPV2018) (28-31/05/2018), Benidorm, Spain Department Chemie und Pharmazie, Universität Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany 3rd Int. Conf. on Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer (PCET2018), Blowing Rock, NC USA European Colloquium on Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms (ECIRM2018), Barcelona, Spain Animesh Chakravorty Endowment Lect., 23rd CRSI Nat. Symp. Chem., IISER Bhopal, India Annual Nanotechnology Conference NANOMAT, Wien, Austria Nuevas formas de almacenamiento energía, Univ. Buenos Aires, Argentina. Inst. for New Energy Materials and Low Carbon Tech., Tianjin Univ. of Technology, China. Int. Research Center for Renewable Energy, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China 8a Jornada de Jóvenes Investigadores (Química y Física) de Aragón. Zaragoza, Spain. Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
2019	Otago Future Fuels, Dunedin, New Zealand. 7-8/2/2019 Adv. Materials & Nanotechnology 2019, (AMN9) Wellington, New Zealand. 10-14/2/2019 European Materials Research Society, EMRS, Spring Meeting, Nice, France. 27-31/5/2019. Department of Chemistry, University of Wurzburg, Germany. 13/06/2019 Center for Nanosystems Chemistry, Univ. of Wurzburg, Germany. 26/06/2019. Photochemistry Gordon Res. Conf., Stonehill College, Boston MA, USA. 14-19/7/2019. Int. Congress Photobiology, 2019 ESP-UPB, Light and Life, Barcelona, Spain. 25-30/8/2019. ICASEC Summer School 2019. Univ. of Göttingen, Germany. 6-9/10/2019. Ernst Haage Symposium 2019, Max Planck Institute in Mülheim, Germany. 11-13/11/2019 Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China. 6/12/2019. Dept of Chemistry, Tongji University., Shanghai, China. 9/12/2019.

Selected Publications

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