Hermenegildo García

Hermenegildo García (herme, 51) did his PhD on Organic Photochemistry at the Universidad de Valencia under the supervisiono f Prof. Miguel Angel Miranda.After one postdoctoral stay at Reading University joining the group of Prof. Andrew Gilbert, he become staff member at the Technical University of Valencia in 1984. He has spent four sabbatical leaves as invited Professor at the University of Ottawa with Prof. J. C. Scaiano working on Intrazeolite Photochemistry. Prof. García became full Professor and member of the Institute of Chemical Technology at the Technical University of Valencia in 1996. He has co-authored over 350 papers, has supervised over 25 PhDs and holds 15 Spanish and International patents. He is currently ranked among the most-cited Chemists according to the ISI Essential Science Indicators Data Base. His main current interests are green chemistry and heterogeneous catalysis where he has worked on zeolites and related micro-/meso- porous materials as well as metal nanoparticles, supramolecular protochemistry, photocatalysis and nanotechnology.

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