Prof. Dr. Enrique Rodríguez-Castellón was born in Madrid in 1955. He has a Bachelor's in Chemistry (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), a Master's in Chemistry (University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez), and is a Doctor in Chemistry (Universidad de Málaga). He is a Professor of Inorganic Chemistry of the Universidad de Málaga. He is a co-author of eight patents and more than 680 papers and 36 book chapters, with an h-index of 70 (SCOPUS), and more than 20,000 citations, mainly devoted to the synthesis of new materials and their applications in environmental catalysis and surface electronic spectroscopy, such as XPS. He has been an advisor for 23 Ph.D. theses. He has participated in eight European projects since 1986 in collaboration with the Universities of Montpellier 2, Bologna, Ca’Foscari di Venezia, Genova, Exeter, Edinburgh, Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerca, and also REPSOL, UOP, ENI, SNAMPROGETTI, IKO, SUD-CHEMIE, VIANA, and Universidade Federal do Cearà, as well as several national and regional projects. He has participated as a leader in numerous projects of international cooperation with universities in Africa, America, Asia, and Europe. He is also the founder of two spin-offs named VACOQUING S.L. for water treatment and ECOPIBA S.L. for battery recycling. He was honored as Doctor Honoris Causa by The Federal University of Cearà in Brazil. Currently, he is the Deputy President of the Inorganic Chemistry Division of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry.
Prof. Dr. Juan Manuel Lázaro-Martínez obtained his degree in Biochemistry in 2005 at Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica (FFyB), Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). Then, he obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2011 (UBA), working on the “Synthesis and Characterization of New Polymeric Materials with Environmental Applications”. Currently, he is a Professor of Organic Chemistry (FFyB-UBA) at the Department of Chemistry and an independent researcher for The National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) at the "Instituto de Química y Metabolismo del Fármaco" (IQUIMEFA-UBA-CONICET). His research project combines the synthesis, characterization, and environmental applications of novel copper and cobalt complexes with imidazole/pyridine ligands bearing either gem-diol or carbonyl moieties, as well as polymeric material/hydrogels or copper-organoclays. His main experience relates to the structural characterization of a broad kind of organic/inorganic materials (small molecules, metal complexes, and polymeric materials) by solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and single-crystal X-ray crystallography and their uses in advanced oxidation processes (AOP) for the remediation of wastewater. He received an award from the Argentine Research Society on Organic Chemistry (SAIQO) and The Luis Federico Leloir Prize for the best PhD thesis in chemistry in Argentina in 2011. He has been a member of SAIQO and the American Chemical Society since 2006 and 2016, respectively.
