CNC Lecture by Nazario Martin

Prof. Martin is full professor of organic chemistry at Universidad Complutense de Madrid and vice-director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Nanoscience of Madrid (IMDEA-Nanoscience). He graduated from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1984. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the group of Prof. M. Hanack at the Universität Tübingen (Germany) in 1987-1988. Professor Martin has been visiting professor at UCSB and UCLA (California, USA) and Angers and Strasbourg (France) universities.

Professor Martin is one of the most influential chemists in the fields of supramolecular and fullerene chemistry. His research interests span a range of topics with emphasis on the molecular and supramolecular chemistry of carbon nanostructures such as fullerenes, carbon nanotubes and graphenes, pi-conjugated systems as molecular wires and electroactive molecules, in the context of electron transfer processes, photovoltaics applications and nanoscience. He is a member of the Royal Academy of Doctors of Spain as well as a fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry. In the period 2006-2012, he was the President of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry. Prof. Martin has been awarded numerous prizes and distinctions: in 2007 he was the recipient of the “Dupont Prize of Science” and of the “Gold Medal and Research Award” in 2012, the highest distinction given by the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry. He has been recently awarded the national “Jaime I Award for basic research” 2012, one of the most prestigious prizes in Spain, and the “Alexander von Humboldt Research Award” for his cutting-edge achievements in the field of fullerene chemistry. He is the last chemist distinguished with the “EuCheMS Lecture Award” in 2012. The impact of his research has been recently recognized with the “Advanced Grant of the European Research Council (ERC)”.