
Prof. Antoni Llobet
Full Professor of Chemistry at the Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona (Spain)
Group Leader at the Institute for Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Tarragona (Spain).
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) |
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. |
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: |
Referee of projects from: |
Evaluation of prestigious academic institutions: |
Member of the Eurobic Medal Award Committee funded by the European Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference. |
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. |
Number of total publications in journals with referees > 200 |
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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 |
2008 |
Departement de Chimie Physique, Université de Genève, Switzerland |
2009 |
Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria |
2010 |
Frontiers in Inorganic Chemistry” (FIC-2010), Kolkata, India |
2011 |
University College, Dublin, Ireland |
2012 |
School of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering, University College Dublin, Ireland |
2013 |
Fakultät für Chemie, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany |
2014 |
ICFO, Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain |
2015 |
Residència d’Investigadors CSIC, Barcelona, Spain |
2016 |
KAUST Artificial Photosynthesis Meeting, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia |
2017 |
Umeå Renewable Energy Meeting 2017, Umea, Sweden |
2018 |
5th Int. Workshop on Solar Energy for Sustain., Nanyang Technological Uni. Singapore |
2019 |
Otago Future Fuels, Dunedin, New Zealand. 7-8/2/2019 |