Miquel A. Pericàs#
Membership Number: | 5744 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
Elected: | 2021 |
Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
Homepage(s): | https://www.iciq.org/research/research_group/prof-miquel-a-pericas/section/about_prof/ |
ORCID: | 0000-0003-0195-8846 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016 - 2017,09 Interim Director General of the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST)
- 2004 - Group Leader at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ)
- 2000 - 2020,09 Founding Director of the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ)
- 1991 - Full Professor (Universitat de Barcelona)
- 1986 - 1991 Associate Professor (Universitat de Barcelona)
- 1984 - 1986 Visiting Professor (LEDSS, Université Scientifique et Médicale de Grenoble). One month per year
- 1980 - 1986 Assistant Professor (Universitat de Barcelona)
- 1979 - 1980 CSIC Post-doctoral Fellow (CSIC, with Prof. Francesc Camps)
Fields of Scholarship
- Development of complex catalytic systems with enzyme-like behavior
- Catalysis as a key methodology for the sustainable production of high added-value compounds
- Catalytic continuous flow processes
- Catalyst immobilization
- Functional polymers and magnetic nanoparticles
- Photocatalytic processes and systems regulated by light
- Enantioselective catalysis
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Gold Medal of the Real Sociedad Española de Química
- 2019 Elected member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona
- 2019 Iberoamerican Award of Organic Chemistry 2019
- 2014 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2013 International Organic Chemistry Foundation Lectureship Award (Kyoto)
- 2005 Narcís Monturiol Medal for Scientific and Technological Merits (Generalitat de Catalunya)
- 2001 Janssen-Cylag Award for Research in Organic Chemistry (Real Sociedad Española de Química)
- 2000 Generalitat de Catalunya Award for the Promotion of University Research
- 1981 IV Joaquim Torrens Ibern Award (Institut d'Estudis Catalans)