Armando J. L. Pombeiro

Armando J. L. Pombeiro Professor of Chemistry, The University of Lisbon, Portugal

Webpage: http://cqe.ist.utl.pt/personal_pages/pages/armando_pombeiro.php Armando J. L. Pombeiro got his PhD at University of Sussex (under the supervision of Prof. J. Chatt and Prof. R. L. Richards), is/was Vice-President of the Class of Sciences of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon, Secretary-General of this Academy and a representative at ICSU (International Council for Science), EASAC (European Academies Science Advisory Council) and ESF (European Science Foundation), President of the Portuguese Electrochemical Society (co-founder of this Society and of its journal), member of the Higher Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (Portugal), member of External Evaluation Commissions of various Universities, and of scientific and advisory NATO panels. He is the Director of the PhD Program on “Catalysis and Sustainability” (CATSUS) and the Coordinator of the scientific area of “Synthesis, Molecular Structure and Chemical Analysis” (IST). His research Group on Coordination and Organometallic Chemistry, Molecular Electrochemistry, Synthesis and Catalysis, addresses the activation of small molecules (e.g., functionalization of alkanes under mild conditions) with industrial, environmental or biological significance, including metal-mediated synthesis and catalysis, crystal engineering and self-assembly of polynuclear and supramolecular structures, complexes with bioactivity, high pressure gas reactions, molecular electrochemistry of coordination compounds (redox potential-structure relationships and induction of reactivity by electron-transfer), and theoretical studies. He was the Chairman or member of organizing/scientific committees of ca. 40 international conferences or schools, including the XXV International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry (XXV ICOMC, Lisbon, 2012). Editor of the silver/gold Jubilee ICOMC celebratory book “Advances in Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis” (J. Wiley, ISBN: 9781118510148). He has been awarded the Madinabeitia-Lourenço Prize (Spanish Royal Chemical Society) and other prizes for the excellence and productivity of his research. He has supervised over 85 PhD or MSc students and Post-Doc Fellows, edited 3 books, authored another one, (co-)authored ca. 600 research publications (including 75 chapters in books or reviews), 33 patents, 510 conference communications, and presented 90 invited lectures at international conferences. His work has received ca. 11,000 citations, h-index = 48 (ISI Web of Knowledge).