Academic career

since 2010     Full Professor of Physical Chemistry, University of Santiago de Compostela (USC).

1987–2010    Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry, USC.

1983–1987    Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry, USC.

1978–1983    Teaching assistant of Physical Chemistry, USC.

Postdoctorate

1984–1986    Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Department of Spectroscopy (Göttingen, Germany).

                      Research on photochemical processes in triplet states, with B. Nickel, K. H. Grellmann and A. Weller.

Education

1979–1984   Ph.D. in Chemistry, USC. Kinetics and mechanism of nitrosation reactions, with J. Casado and A. Castro.

12/1978        M. Sc. in Chemistry, USC.

1973–1978   B. Sc. in Chemistry, USC.

Awards and scientific nominations

2013            Invited researcher, Biomedical Sciences Research Complex, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, U.K.

since 1995   Member/Chair of the Organizing/Scientific Committees of 10 national and international scientific symposia.

2001–2003  Member of the Board of Directors of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry.

1990–2003  Member of the Board of Directors of the Photochemistry Group of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (1990-1999),

                    Vice-President (1999-2001) and President (2001-2003).

1987            Invited researcher, Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (Göttingen, Germany).

1984            Award for best Ph.D. Thesis in Chemistry, USC.

1979            Award for best M. Sc. Thesis, Province Government, Pontevedra, Spain.

1978            First National Award for best Chemistry Diploma, Ministry of Education and Science, Spain.

1978            Award for best Chemistry Diploma, USC. 

Scientific Societies

Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Member of the Real Sociedad Española de Química.

Member of the European Photochemistry Association.

Research interests

• Dynamics of photoinduced processes in molecular materials and biological systems.
• Fluorescent probes.

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