Prof. Dr. Miquel Sola

Miquel Solà (1964) obtained his PhD at the UAB in 1991, graduating with academic honors. His doctoral research under the supervision of Profs. Juan Bertran and Agustí Lledós was awarded with the Saint Albert Prize. In 1993, after several months in a private consultant company, he moved to the University of Girona (UdG) as an assistant researcher. In 1994, he conducted postdoctoral research in Amsterdam with Prof. Evert Jan Baerends and in 1995, in Calgary with Prof. Tom Ziegler. He was appointed assistant professor of the UdG in 1997. In 2001, he was awarded the Distinction for the Promotion of University Research (young scientist category). Since 2003, he holds a permanent position as a full professor in the UdG. He was awarded the ICREA Academia Prize two times, in 2009 and 2014. In 2013, he was awarded the Physical Chemistry prize by the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry. He is coauthor on approximately 500 scientific papers and has supervised 20 doctoral students. He serves on the Editorial Board of Theor. Chem. Acc. and Sci. Rep. journals. At the UdG, he previously served as director of the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (2004-07), director of the Department of Chemistry (2007-10), and director of the School of Doctoral Studies.