Advances in Chemistry, XXVIth International Galician Portuguese Conference on Chemistry

Dear Colleagues,

The International Galician–Portuguese Conference on Chemistry is celebrating its 26th edition in 2022. This is the first time since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic that scientists can attend this conference in person again to exchange their ideas. The conference keeps in its name its historical roots because, more than 25 years ago, the Galician and Portuguese Associations of Chemists decided to create a periodic forum to meet in person, share knowledge, and incubate collaborations. Furthermore, the venue of the conference alternates annually between Portugal and Spain. The conference was envisioned as a forum where master's and Ph.D. students take a predominant role to showcase their own research and establish friendly relations with other colleagues. Since those early days, the conference has attracted people from all over Portugal, Spain, some nearby countries, and, recently, an increasing number of Latin-American scientists. In the last editions, ca. 400 communications were presented (including posters and oral presentations). We are absolutely honoured by the Plenary Conferences delivered by two Nobel Laureates on chemistry: Professor Tomas Lindahl (Nobel Prize 2015) and Professor Stanley Whittingham (Nobel Prize 2019). This year, the conference is taking things a step further and presenting the opportunity for relevant communications presented in its different sessions to be published. For this, we encourage attendants to prepare scientific papers and submit them to the Topic of the journals that the prestigious Open Access Publisher MDPI has opened for us. There is no doubt this would be a major opportunity and exciting challenge for young researchers. Thank you very much to all of you for participating and to MDPI for their support.

Dr. Jose Manuel Andrade
Dr. Luis Cuadros-Rodríguez
Topic Editors