Fulbright “El papel fascinante de las arcillas en la vida cotidiana”
Fulbright te invita el próximo martes 15 de diciembre a las 20.00 hrs a una nueva tertulia telemática, y para la próxima hemos invitado a un prestigioso profesor, Eduardo Ruiz-Hitzky, cuya biografía presentamos en inglés aunque la conferencia será en castellano.
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Os llegará entonces al correo electrónico una notificación con el enlace definitivo personal que deberéis usar para entrar a la sesión desde las 19.55 del día 15 de diciembre. Deberéis tener descargada la aplicación gratuita desde www.zoom.us
Biografía de Eduardo Ruiz-Hitzky
Eduardo Ruiz-Hitzky is since 2017 Ad Honorem Research
Professor at the Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM) (Materials
Science Institute of Madrid) belonging to the Consejo Superior de
Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC, National Research Council of Spain) being
Founder and First Director of several Departments including the “New Architectures
in Materials Chemistry Department”, the last one (2010) among various
departments created by him in the past decades.
Graduated in Chemistry (Universidad Complutense, Madrid, 1970; Docteur en
Sciences (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 1974), and PhD in
Chemistry (Universidad Complutense, Madrid, 1979). Postdoctoral fellow at the
University of Kiel (Germany, 1976). Tenure Scientist at the Instituto de
Edafología y Biología Vegetal (Soil Science Institute, CSIC, 1975-1985), Senior
Research Scientist (1985-1988) at the Physical-Chemistry of Minerals Institute
(CSIC). Research Professor since 1988, contributed to the creation of the
prestigious Materials Science Institute of Madrid, being there a member of the
Direction Committee during a couple of decades.
He mainly dedicated his research activities to the study of clays, clay
minerals and related solids from basic research to applications in fields as
diverse as Biomedicine and Environment to Nanotechnology. Supervisor of around
20 PhD Thesis, author of more than 300 publications, including high impact
journals such as Nature, and around 20 patents some of them transferred to
Industry. He has received more than 10,000 citations (h-index >50).
President of the Sociedad Española de Arcillas (SEA) (Spanish Clay Society)
(2006-2010); Member of the Junta de Gobierno (Direction Committee) at the
ICMM- CSIC (1987-2009); Member of the Direction Committee of the Inorganic
Chemistry Group belonging to the Real Sociedad Española de Química (Spanish Royal
Society of Chemistry) (1989-2013).
Organizer and Chair of several international conferences such as the Euchem
Conference on Chemical Reactivity in Nanoporous Solids, (Miraflores de la
Sierra, Spain, 1999); the 5th Materials Discussions of the Royal Society of
Chemistry, UK (Madrid, 2002); the American-Japanese-Spanish Trilateral Meeting
on Clay Minerals (Madrid & Seville, 2010); the 4th
International Conference on Multifunctional, Hybrid and Nanomaterials (Sitges,
Spain, 2015).
Invited Professor at the Université de Paris-Sud (Orsay) and Collège de France,
Paris (1987 & 2011); Senior Fellow at the National Laboratory of
Nanotechnology, Campinas, Brazil, 2015; Invited Professor at the Waseda
University, Tokyo (2012 & 2014) and Invited Lecturer at the MIT, Cambridge
(USA, 2017).
He was awarded by the Académie Royal des Sciences, des Lettres et Beaux Arts de
Belgique, (Brussels, 1976); the Association des Chimistes de l’Université de
Louvain (Louvain 1976); the Ministry of Sugar (Havana, 1995); the National
Academy of Sciences (Havana, 2008 & 2017); the Budé Medal, Collège de
France (Paris, 2011), the AIPEA Medal (Tokyo, 2005) and the Bailey
Distinguished Member Award, the Clay Minerals Society (USA, 2020).