Luis Echegoyen, president-elect of the most important chemical organization in the world, participated yesterday at CiQUS in a series of working meetings with principal investigators of the center, giving later a lecture about his main research lines at present.
Professor of Chemistry at the University of Texas at El Paso (USA), Luis Echegoyen, had the opportunity to meet yesterday CiQUS facilities (Singular Research Center in Biological Chemistry and molecular materials of the University of Santiago de Compostela), along a visit in which he held different meetings with several group leaders of the center.
During his lecture, Professor Echegoyen advanced that as a new president of the prestigious American Chemical Society (ACS), will work to increase the relationship of the institution with other Ibero-American chemical societies, especially with the Spanish one (the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry - RSEQ). A confession that some attendees described as "logical, taking into account their origin: born in Cuba and educated in Puerto Rico", they said.
In his speech, Professor Echegoyen showed how to use carbon nanostructures (fullerenes) to induce some chemical bonds that do not exist in nature; in particular, he explained how links can be induced between uranium atoms within these nanostructures.
A coveted speaker
Professor Echegoyen is a coveted speaker, who has offered more than 450 lectures, talks and presentations. He gave several lectures in places like Northwestern University, Georgia Tech., UC-Riverside, and is a member of several international advisory boards, such as the IMDEA- Nanoscience Center in Madrid and the Solid Surface Physics Chemistry Center (PCOSS) in Xiamen (University in China). He was editor in chief of the scientific journal Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry, a publication by Wiley, from 2010.
Regarding his scientific production, Luis Echegoyen has published 412 research articles and 47 book chapters, and its current h index is 80 (source: Google Scholar, 11-20-18). He was elected a Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003 and has received many awards, including the 1996 Florida ACS Award, the 1997 Provost Excellence in Research Award from the University of Miami, the Herty Award Medal 2007 (granted by the ACS Section of Georgia), the Presidential Award for Excellence in Research at Clemson University of 2007 and the Prize to Distinguished Students of the University of Puerto Rico in 2007.
From January 2020, he will preside the American Chemical Society, one of the most important scientific societies worldwide.