Biography

Carlos Martí-Gastaldo received his MSc in Chemistry (1st Hons, 91%, Extraordinary Award to the best graded) from the University of Valencia (Spain). He joined Prof. Eugenio Coronado's group at the Institute of Molecular Science (ICMol) and received his PhD 'Cum Laude' in Chemistry in 2009 for his work on 'Multifunctional Magnetic Materials by using Coordination Polymers and 2D Layered Inorganic Materials'. In 2010, he received a Marie Curie Fellowship and joined Prof. Matthew J. Rosseinsky's group in the University of Liverpool (UK) to develop biomimetic MOFs with peptide linkers. In 2013, he was awarded a University Research Fellowship by the Royal Society, which recognizes 'outstanding scientists in the UK who are in the early stages of their research career and have the potential to become leaders in their field', and founded an independent research group in Liverpool. Next, he received the Ramón y Cajal (RyC) Fellowship from the Spanish government and moved to the ICMol in 2014 to develop highly-stable MOFs and 2D nanomaterials from layered inorganic solids for applications of environmental relevance like energy transport, conversion and storage. He has recently been awarded the prestigious ERC Starting grant that helped him to establish his own research group focused on the design of Functional Inorganic Materials (www.icmol.es/ funimat). He is also co-founder of the start-up "Porous Materials for Advanced Applications, S.L.", that intends to optimise the production of crystalline porous materials at high-scale by using synthetic methodologies more respectful with the environment.
His work has been recognised with national and international awards like the ‘Young Researcher Olivier Kahn Recognition Award’ (2009), ‘NanoMatMol’ (2010), ‘Suschem Postdoc’ (2011), ‘Premio Científico-Técnico Ciudad de Algemesí’ (2015) or the ’Young Researchers Award' (2015) by the Real Sociedad Española de Química that recognises the best Spanish chemists aged 40 or below.