Prof. Dr. Armando Pombeiro

Armando J. L. Pombeiro is a Full Professor Jubilado at Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, and a full Member of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon (President of its Scientific Council) and of the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC) and Academia Europaea. He is/was a member of organizing/scientific committees of over 45 international conferences or schools. His research addresses the activation of small molecules with industrial, environmental, or biological significance (e.g., alkanes and their derivatives, water, CO2), oxidation catalysis, catalysis under unconventional conditions, crystal engineering of coordination compounds, polynuclear and supramolecular structures (including MOFs), non-covalent interactions in synthesis, coordination compounds with bioactivity, molecular electrochemistry, and theoretical studies. He authored or edited 10 books, (co-)authored ca. 1,000 research publications, ca. 40 patents, and presented ca. 120 invited plenary/keynote lectures at international conferences. His research publications have received over 30,000 citations (over 12,000 cited articles), with an h-index of ca. 80 (Web of Science, 2023). He was awarded an Honorary Professorship by St. Petersburg State University (Institute of Chemistry), an Invited Chair Professorship by the National Taiwan University of Science & Technology, the inaugural SCF French-Portuguese Prize, and the Spanish-Portuguese Prize by the French and the Royal Spanish Chemical Societies.