The Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Seville will honor Professor Ernesto Carmona with a ceremony during which its Aula Magna will be renamed in his honor, in recognition of his exemplary scientific career and his significant contributions to the field of organometallic chemistry. The event will take place on September 24 at 7:00 p.m. in the Aula Magna of the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Seville.
Carmona, a professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Seville since 1984, has also maintained close ties with the Institute for Chemical Research (IIQ), a joint center of the University of Seville and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), of which he was one of the founders.
After completing his studies at the University of Seville, he undertook a postdoctoral fellowship from 1974 to 1977 at Imperial College of Science and Technology in London, where he began studying organometallic compounds under the supervision of Professor Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson, winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Upon completing this phase, he returned to the University of Seville, where he has since built an outstanding academic and research career.
His scientific work has focused primarily on the chemistry of coordination and organometallic compounds and on homogeneous catalysis, fields in which he has made highly significant contributions. Throughout his career, he has supervised approximately 40 doctoral dissertations and published more than 250 scientific articles in specialized journals. He has also served as a speaker at numerous national and international conferences and scientific meetings, in addition to delivering scientific and popular science seminars and lectures at universities and research centers in Spain and abroad.
Ernesto Carmona has received numerous awards throughout his career, including the King Jaime I Prize for Basic Research (2010), the Gold Medal from the Southern Chemists’ Association (2018), and the European Prize for Organometallic Chemistry (2019). He is also a member of the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical, and Natural Sciences.