Ernesto Carmona Guzmán, from the Institute of Chemical Research (IIQ), has been awarded the gold medal of the College of Chemists of the South. The institution has wanted to value his important contributions in the field of chemistry of organometallic compounds, in addition to other professional merits at national and international level.
This gold medal is the first in the history of the College and has been awarded unanimously by the Board of Directors, meeting in Seville on May 9. The award will be made solemnly in a public ceremony, coinciding with the acts of the celebration of the feast of San Alberto Magno and Chemistry Day, on November 15, 2018.

Career of Ernesto Carmona
Ernesto Carmona is the Extraordinary Graduate Award and Extraordinary Doctorate Award from the University of Seville. After completing his studies, he worked in university centres in Spain and abroad, until settling at the US in 1984, where he continues to carry out his teaching and research activity as a professor of Inorganic Chemistry.
He contributed to the creation of the Isla de la Cartuja Scientific Research Centre (cicCartuja) and, in particular, to the Institute of Chemical Research (a joint centre of the University of Seville and the CSIC). Since then, he has combined his teaching at the Faculty of Chemistry with his research activity at the IIQ. Specifically, he has made important contributions in the area of ​​Organometallic Chemistry. He is the author of more than two hundred and fifty scientific articles in specialised publications, in addition to having directed around forty doctoral theses.
Source: Communications Department of the University of Seville