Seville, November 14, 2017. The researcher Ernesto Carmona Guzmán has been named a new member of the European Academy of Sciences. This organization has more than 2,000 members and brings together top-level experts in physical, biological, social sciences and humanities. More than 40 Nobel Prize winners swell the list of this institution, founded in 1988.
Professor Carmona is attached to the Institute of Chemical Research (IIQ), belonging to cicCartuja – a joint CSIC-US-Junta de Andalucía center – and is a professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Seville. His work focuses on research on organometallic compounds.
A brilliant academic career supports this Sevillian scientist, who has received numerous awards, including the Rey Jaime I Award for Basic Research. This recognition adds to a long list of distinctions from renowned chemical societies and universities around the world.
Among his many responsibilities, Carmona has been a member of the governing council of the CSIC (1993-1996), as well as director of cicCartuja (1996-1998). Currently, he is a full member of the Royal Seville Academy of Sciences, the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences, and belongs to numerous national and international chemical societies. In 2010, the National Association of Chemists of Spain awarded him its gold medal. Ernesto Carmona has directed more than 35 doctoral theses and has published around 250 articles in prestigious journals in the field. He obtained two European patents on alkene polymerization in collaboration with REPSOL.
Two more academics in the elite of knowledge
Ernesto Carmona has not been the only one deserving of this distinction, as the European Academy of Sciences has expanded its list of academics with two more figures, Jesús Jiménez Barbero and Tomás Torres.
Tomás Torres is Director of the Institute for Advanced Research in Chemical Sciences (IAdChem) of the UAM, and Senior Associate Researcher at the Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies in Nanoscience (IMDEA-Nanoscience). Jiménez Barbero, for his part, is Scientific Director of the CIC bioGUNE, a research center located in the Basque Country and dedicated to biomedicine.