Biography

Francesc Illas (1954) carried out his chemistry degree studies and Ph. D Thesis at the Universitat de Barcelona where he became Full Professor of Physical Chemistry in 1992. He spent several periods at different research centres (IBM Almaden Research Center and Los Alamos National Laboratory) and has been invited professor at Universita’ della Calabria (Italy) and Université Pierre et Marie Curie (France). He received the Distinguished Professor Mention for the Research Promotion awarded by the Generalitat de Catalunya in 2001, the Bruker Physical Chemistry Research Award of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry in 2004 and the ICREA Academia Award in 2009 and again in 2015. In 2009 was elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences; in 2012 he joined the Editorial Board of Surface Science and of Theoretical Chemistry Accounts; and in 2017 he was elected member of Academia Europeae. He published over 600 papers which received more than 24000 citations (WoS h-index = 76; Google Scholar h-index = 83). He has served as Director of IQTCUB (2007-2018) and of XRQTC (2006-2019).