Armando J. L. Pombeiro is Full Professor Jubilado at Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa (ULisboa), former Distant Director at RUDN University (Moscow), Full Member of Academy of Sciences of Lisbon (first President of its Scientific Council, and formerly in charge of various positions, eg, Secretary-General, Vice-President of Class of Sciences, representative at international organizations), Corresponding Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc) and of the Academia Europaea. Former member of the NATO S&T Panel.
Founding President of the College of Chemistry of ULisboa, former Coordinator of the Centro de Química Estrutural, of its thematic line Synthesis and Catalysis, and of Coordination Chemistry and Catalysis group, founding Director of Catalysis and Sustainability PhD Program, co-founder of the Portuguese Electrochemical Society (former President), of the Iberoamerican Society of Electrochemistry and of the journal Portugaliae Electrochimica Acta. He chaired many major international conferences, e recent one being the EurASc Symposium 2024 on Science for Sustainability and is editing the EurASc 20th anniversary celebratory book on this subject.
He was member of the Higher Council for Science, Technology and Innovation and of the Higher Council for S&T (Portugal); member of the External Evaluation Commission of the Physical Sciences of Portuguese Universities; member of External Review Panels for assessment/accreditation of some foreign universities.
He lectured post-graduate courses at foreign universities, eg, École Polytechnique (Paris), Camerino (Italy) and Jyvaskyla (Finland) Universities.
His research addresses activation of small molecules with industrial, environmental or biological significance, including: catalysis under mild/sustainable and unconventional conditions (eg, functionalization of inert alkanes; oxidations of volatile organic compounds, VOCs; carbon-carbon couplings; carbon dioxide utilization; water in catalysis; water splitting and oxygen reduction reactions); polynuclear and supramolecular structures (eg, metal-organic frameworks, MOFs); non-covalent interactions in synthesis; bioactive and chemosensor coordination compounds; molecular electrochemistry; theoretical studies. He authored or edited 15 books, (co-)authored over 1,000 research publications (including ca. 190 reviews and book chapters), ca. 40 patents (923 indexed publications, ca. 33,000 total citations, ca. 15,000 citing articles, h-index = 81, Web of Science, Jan. 2025). Presented 130 plenary and keynote lectures at international conferences.
He was awarded Honorary/Chair Professorships by St. Petersburg State University and National Taiwan University of S&T, inaugural SCF French-Portuguese Prize by French Chemical Society, Madinabeitia-Lourenço Prize by Spanish Royal Chemical Society, Vanadis Award, Prizes of Portuguese Chemical and Electrochemical Societies, Scientific Prizes of Technical ULisboa and of ULisboa. In his honor, Special Issues of Coord. Chem. Rev. and J. Organometal. Chem. were published, and a symposium was held.
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