Daniel Maspoch awarded the Hermanos Elhuyar Hans Goldschmidt Lecture Award

Professor Maspoch received his degree in Chemistry from the University of Girona and his PhD in Materials Science from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC). After a postdoctoral stay at Northwestern University (Illinois, USA), he returned to Barcelona where he is ICREA research professor, researcher in the Department of Chemistry of the UAB, and head of the Supramolecular Nanochemistry and Materials group at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2). He has developed a rapid and solid scientific career in the areas of materials science and nanotechnology, with very high level scientific contributions. He has always maintained a balance between fundamental and applied research, with pioneering developments in the field of porous reticular materials. He combines excellent basic research with the effective transfer of the materials designed and developed in his laboratory to the industrial fabric and society in general.

In 2014 he received an ERC Consolidator Grant, in 2021 a prestigious ERC Advanced Grant, and in 2022 he was awarded his second ERC Proof-of-Concept Grant. In 2022 he was appointed Academic Correspondent of the Spanish Royal Academy of Science (RAC). He has received several outstanding awards such as the RSEQ Research Excellence Award in 2020 and the Rei Jaume I Prize for New Technologies in 2023.

The Hermanos Elhuyar - Hans Goldschmidt Lecture Award

In 1998 the German Chemical Society (GDCh), alongside the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry, created the Hermanos Elhuyar - Hans Goldschmidt Lecture Award in honour of the Elhuyar Brothers, passionate mineralogists and chemists who in 1783 published their research on the extraction of de tungsten, and of chemist Hans Goldschmidt, who in 1894 developed the thermit process.