Prof. Josep Puigmartí-Luis

Prof. Josep Puigmartí-Luis

Universitat de Barcelona and Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA)

Prof. Dr. Josep Puigmartí-Luis is the head of the ChemInFlow group located at the University of Barcelona (UB), see website: https://www.ub.edu/cheminflowgroup/home/. He completed his PhD in supramolecular chemistry at the Institut de Ciències dels Materiales de Barcelona (ICMAB) and during that time, he realized that the control of fluid flow phenomena would be crucial to make new advances in chemistry and materials science. Therefore, the research activities of his group are centred on controlling fluid flow phenomena to command chemical processes (kinetics of reactions) and to harness the engineering of functional materials in solution and at surfaces. This research area has gained much attention in recent years, and he has contributed to its dissemination with, for example, an invited review article published in Chemical Society Reviews, where Prof. Puigmartí-Luis is the only author (Chem. Soc. Rev. 2014, 43, 2253-2271). As proof of the quality of his research work, Prof. Puigmartí-Luis was awarded the Premi Antoni de Martí i Franquès de Ciències Químiques award from the Institut d’Estudis Catalans in 2008 and he received the St. Jordi award from the Institut d’Estudis Catalans and the Societat Catalana de Química for his work on supramolecular functional materials. He received a competitive postdoctoral ETH fellowship in 2009 and in 2012, he was nominated as a Ramon y Cajal (RyC) researcher. In 2014, and after two years as RyC researcher, Prof. Puigmartí-Luis moved his group back to Switzerland, where he gained considerable experience in the management of International, European and National projects (see below). As an independent Group Leader, he has supervised senior scientists, postdocs, PhD students, master students and technicians. He also taught two courses at ETH Zürich and continuously contributes to workshops and summer schools every year. In 2015, Prof. Puigmartí-Luis was awarded an ERC Starting Grant, a Chair of Excellence (France) in 2018, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Valencia in 2019, among other merits (see below). In September 2019, Josep Puigmartí-Luis was appointed an ICREA Research Professor (Full Professor), and since August 2020, his research group has been based at the Universitat de Barcelona. Since August 2020, Prof. Puigmartí-Luis has been also affiliated with the Institut de Química Teòrica i Computacional (IQTC), serving as a distinguished representative of the IQTC, which was honoured with the "Maria de Maeztu" Unit of Excellence, CEX2019-000919-M, in 2021. Since 2023, Prof. Puigmartí-Luis joined the Management Committee of the EU4MOFs COST Action.