Armando Pombeiro - Biography#

Armando Pombeiro is Full Prof. Jubilado at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa (ULisboa), former Distant Director at RUDN Univ. (Moscow), Full Member of Academy of Sciences of Lisbon (first President of Scientific Council, President of Chemistry Division, formerly in charge of other positions, eg, Secretary-General and Vice-President of Class of Sciences), Fellow of European Academy of Sciences (EurASc), member of Academia Europaea and of Brazilian Academy of Sciences, founding President of College of Chem. of ULisboa, former Coordinator of Centro de Química Estrutural, Coordinator of Coordination Chem. and Catalysis Group, founding Director of multi-university PhD Program Catalysis and Sustainability. He chaired major internat. conferences.

Former member of i) governmental S&T and innovation advisory higher councils, ii) external evaluation panels of Portuguese and foreign (Camerino, Baku) universities, iii) physical and engineering S&T panel and advisory panel of NATO Science Program.

His research, in fields of synthesis and catalysis towards sustainability, addresses activation of small molecules with industrial, environmental or biolog. significance (eg, alkane functionalization, oxidation catalysis, catalysis in unconventional conditions), crystal engineering of coordination compounds, polynuclear and supramolecular structures, non-covalent interactions in synthesis, compounds with bioactivity, chemosensors, molecular electrochemistry and theoretical studies.

He edited/authored 15 books, authored ca. 1,050 research publications, ca. 40 patents. His work received ca. 33,000 citations (ca. 15,000 citing articles; over 2,000 citations/year in last 6 years), H-index = 81 (Web of Science, Feb. 2025). He presented 210 invited lectures at internat. conferences or foreign institutions, and supervised/mentored 29 PhD and 19 MSc theses, 60 doctorates (mostly foreign post-docs) and 75 grads or undergrads (mostly foreign grads).

Among his honors, he was awarded Honorary Professorship by St. Petersburg State Univ. (Institute of Chemistry), Invited Chair Professorship by National Taiwan Univ. of S&T, inaugural SCF French-Portuguese Prize by French Chem. Society, Madinabeitia-Lourenço Prize by Spanish Royal Chem. Society, Prizes of Portuguese Chem. and Electrochem. Societies, Scientific Prizes of ULisboa and Technical ULisboa, and Vanadis Prize. Special issues of Coord. Chem. Rev. and JOMC were published in his honor.

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