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Curriculum Vitae CURRICULUM VITAE Luis A. ORO Born: June, 13, 1945. Zaragoza. Spain Address: Department of Inorganic Chemistry-ISQCH University of Zaragoza – CSIC, Zaragoza 50009, Spain Telephone: 34 976 761143 E-mail: [email protected] URLs http://personal.unizar.es/oro http://www.ae-info.org/ae/User/Oro_Luis/CV Education: Graduated in Chemistry from University of Zaragoza, 1967. Doctor of Sciences, University of Zaragoza, 1970. Postdoctoral studies in coordination and organometallic chemistry at Leiden (1971, Kamerling Onnes Laboratorium) and Cambridge (1972-73, University Chemical Laboratory). Appointments at the Spanish Universities: 2015-present Emeritus Professor, University of Zaragoza 1982-2015 Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Zaragoza. 2004-2013 Head of the “Instituto Universitario de Catálisis Homogénea”. 1981-82 Professor of Chemistry, University of Santander. 1976-81 Associate Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, Universities of Madridand Zaragoza. 1973-76 Lecturer of Chemistry, University of Zaragoza. Visiting Professorships: 2010-2018 Visiting Chair Professor, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, KSA 2012 Visiting Professor, University of Münter, Germany 2004 Visiting Professor, University of Strasbourg, France 2000 Visiting Professor, University of Bordeaux, France 1997 and 1996 Humboldt Awarded Professor, University of Würzburg, Germany Academies Membership 2018 Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, corresponding member 2017 Real Academia de Medicina de Zaragoza, honoray member 2007 Hungarian Academy of Sciences, honorary member 2006 German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina 2003 European Academy of Sciences 2002 “Académie des Sciences” of France, Foreign Member 1994 Academia Europaea 1994 New York Academy of Sciences 1982 Real Academia de Ciencias de Zaragoza. Selected Professional Appointments 2016-present Member of the Governing Council of the State Research Agency. 2012- 2017 Member of the Spanish Science, Technology and Innovation Council. 2009-present Series Editor de Topics in Organometallic Chemistry. 2009-2013 Member of the OECD Global Science Forum. 2008-2011 President of the European Chemical Society (EuCheMS). 2008-2013 Member of National Commission of Research Activity Evaluation. 2005-2012 Scientific Council of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology. 2005-2011 Program committee member of the Millennium Science Initiative, Government of Chile. 2004-2013 Head of the “Instituto Universitario de Catálisis Homogénea”. 2004-2016 Vice-president of Zaragoza Knowledge Foundation. 2002-present President of the ChemPubSoc Europe partnership for the European Journal of Inorganic and Organic Chemistry, ChemCatChem and ChemPhotoChem. 2000-2005 President of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry. 1997-2002 Coordinator of the Iberoamerican Network on Homogeneous Catalysis 1993-1998 Vice-President of the European Science Foundation (ESF). 1997-1998 Member of the European Science and Technology Assembly (EU) 1988-1994 Secretary General of the National Plan of Scientific R&D. 1987-1988 Director General of Scientific and Technical Research, Ministry of Education. R&D Activities: Well over 600 pubications on: - Preparation, structure and reactivity of organometallic and coordination complexes. - Homogeneous catalysis by complexes of rhodium, iridium, ruthenium and osmium, in reactions of hydrogenation, hydrogen transfer, hydroformylation, hydrosilylation and C-H activation. - Molecular architecture, cluster chemistry and polymetallic reactivity, particularly rhodium and iridium complexes with bridging ligands containing N, P, O or S donor atoms. Co-author of a book on "Homogeneous Hydrogenation" (with P.A. Chaloner, M.A. Esteruelas y F. Joó, Kluwer Pub., Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 1994) and an introductory book on Chemistry (1997). Co-editor of books on “Iridium Complexes in Organic Transformations” (with C. Claver, Wiley-VCH, 2008), on "Metal Clusters in Chemistry" (with P. Braunstein y P.R. Raithby, 1798 pgs, Wiley-VCH, 1999) and on Homogeneous Catalysis (in Spanish, 2000). Invited editor of an special issue of Coordination Chemistry Reviews entitled "Molecular Inorganic Chemistry in Spain" (Coord. Chem. Rev., 193-195, 1-1169, 1999). Co-author of two patents in the field of homogeneous catalysis. Advisor (Director) of 45 Ph.D. Thesis. Member of several Advisory Committees and Scientific Societies Series Editor of Topics in Organometallic Chemistry. Member or past-member of the Editorial Advisory Board of several international journals such as Angewandte Chemie, ChemCatChem, European Journal of Inorganic Chemisty, Organometallics, etc. He has been named "Highly Cited Researcher" in the field of Chemistry by ISI Web of Knowledge (http://isihighlycited.com). He has been the Chairman of the VI European Research Conference on Inorganic Chemistry (2000) and the XXII International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry (2006). Cochairman of the 13th International Symposium on Homogeneous Catalysis (2002), the Symposium on Mechanisms in Homogeneous Catalysis (2003) and the “Symposium on Transition Metal Homogeneous Catalysis” del World Chemical Congress (2011). Author of various papers and two books in the area of research and science policy. A representative book on this activity is: "El Sistema Español de Ciencia y Tecnología: Evolución y Perspectivas" (with A. Lafuente, 135 pgs. Fundesco, 1992). Selected Awards (from 1989): 2019 Doctor Honoris Causa, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. 2019 Doctor Honoris Causa, Universidad San Jorge. 2018 Lord Lewis Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry, U.K. 2015 Doctor Honoris Causa, Universitat Rovira i Virgili. 2015 Lourenço-Madinaveitia Award 2015 Honorary Fellow of ChemPubSoc Europe. 2014 EuCheMS Award. 2014 ICIQ Serratosa Medal. 2013 Aragonia Prize. 2008 Schulich Lecturership, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. 2007 National Research Prize for Chemistry “Enrique Moles”. 2007 Research Prize and Gold Medal of the Royal Spanish Society of Chemistry. 2007 Honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. 2007 Zaragoza Gold Medal. 2006 Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. 2005 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Rennes 1. 2003 Named "Highly Cited Researcher" in the field of Chemistry by ISI Web of Knowledge. 2003 Sacconi Medal. 2003 Member of the European Academy of Sciences. 2003 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Invited Awardee. 2002 Foreign Member of the “Académie des Sciences”, France. 2002 Elhuyar-Goldschmidt Lecturership (GDCh). 2002 Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation. 2002 Lectureship Award, Taiwan Chemical Research Promotion Center. 2001 Betancourt-Perronet Prize. 2001 Aragón Prize. 1999 King James I Research Prize. 1998 Pacific North West Inorganic Lectureship. 1997 Catalan-Sabatier Prize (SFC). 1995 HUMBOLDT Forschungspreise. 1994 Member of the ACADEMIA EUROPAEA, London. 1989 SOLVAY Prize. Selected Invited Lectures (from 2000): - Atlantic Basin Conference on Chemistry (ABCChem), Cancún, Mexico, 2018. - Green Catalysis Symposium, Rennes, France, 2017. - 6th Latin American Symposium on Coordination and Organometallic Chemistry, Iguazu, Argentina, 2017 - International Conference on Advanced Materials, ICAM, Irbid, Jordan, 2017. - XX International Symposium on Homogenous Catalysis, Kyoto, Japan, 2016. - 11th Inorganic Chemistry Conference, SPQ, Sintra, Portugal, 2016. - 14th Eurasia Conference on Chemical Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan, 2016. - 5th Asian Conference on Coordination Chemistry, Hong Kong, 2015. - Golden Jubilee Chemistry Conference, Singapure, 2015. - 5th Latin American Symposium on Coordination and Organometallic Chemistry, Angra dos Reis, Brasil, 2015. - XXVI International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry, Sapporo, Japan, 2014. - 41st International Conference on Coordination Chemistry, Singapure, 2014 -15th Asian Chemical Congress, Singapur, 2013 - Homogeneous Catalysis Symposium to Honour Richard Schrock, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, St Andrews, United Kingdon, 2013. - XIX Congreso Venezolano de Catálisis. Maracaibo, Venezuela, 2013. - XXV International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry, Lisbon, Portugal, 2012. - 30º Congreso Latinoamericano de Química, Cancún, Mexico, 2012. - Hungarian Chemical Society National Conference, Sopron, Hungary, 2011. - Conference on the Competitiveness of the European Chemical Industry, Brussels, Belgium 2011. - Inagural International Conference on Molecular and Functional Catalysis, Singapore, 2010. - 46th Mexican Chemical Congress, Riviera Maya, Mexico, 2010. - 52nd Polish Chemical Society Congress, Lodz, Poland, 2010 - 238th American Chemical Society Meeting, Washington, USA, 2009. - XXIII Reunión Bienal de la Real Sociedad Española de Química, Oviedo, Spain, 2009 - New Chemistry of the Elements, RSC Symposium, London, United Kingdon, 2008. - 4th EuCheMS Conference on Nitrogen Ligands in Coordination, Metal-Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry & Homogeneous Catalysis, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, 2008. - The Chemistry of the 21st Century. State of the Art, UIMP, Santander, Spain, 2008. - 41st IUPAC World Chemistry Congress, Torino, Italy, 2007. - XX Simposio Iberoamericano de Catálisis, Gramado, Brasil, 2006. - Pacifichem , Honolulu, USA, 2005. - 14th International Symposium on Homogeneous Catalisis, Munich, Germany, 2004. - XXIst International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry, Vancouver, Canada, 2004. - XXI Congresso della Societá Chimica Italiana, Torino, Italy, 2003. - 39th IUPAC Congress and 86th Canadian Society for Chemistry Conference, Ottawa,
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