Luis A. Oro#
| Membership Number: | 1611 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1994 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
| Homepage(s): | http://personal.unizar.es/oro |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015-Present: Emeritus Professor, University of Zaragoza
- 2004-2013: Head of the Instituto Universitario de Catálisis Homogéna, Zaragoza
- 1982-2015: Chair Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Zaragoza
- 1981-1982: Chair Professor of Chemistry, University of Santander
- 1977-1981: Associate Professor, University of Zaragoza
- 1976-1977: Associate Professor University Complutense of Madrid
- 1973-1976: Lecturer, University of Zaragoza
- 1970 Ph.D. Chemistry, University of Zaragoza
Fields of Scholarship
- Organometallic chemistry and homogeneous catalysis
- Homogeneous catalysis by complexes of rhodium, iridium, ruthenium and osmium
- Molecular architecture, cluster chemistry and polymetallic reactivity
- Preparation, structure and reactivity of organometallic and coordination complexes
Honours and Awards
- 2019: Doctor Honoris Causa, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
- 2018: Lord Lewis Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry, UK
- 2015: Corresponding Member, Academia das Ciencias de Lisboa
- 2015: Honorary Member, Royal Academy of Medicine of Zaragoza
- 2015: Doctor Honoris Causa, Universitat Rovira i Virgili
- 2015: Lourenzo-Madinaveitia Award
- 2014: EuCheMS Award
- 2014: ICIQ Serratosa Medal
- 2007: National Research Prize on Chemistry
- 2007: Honorary Member, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2007: Research Prize and Gold Medal of theSpanish Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2006: Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 2005: Doctor Honoris CausaUniversity of Rennes 1,
- 2003: Luigi Sacconi Medal
- 2003: Member of the European Academy of Sciences
- 2002: Foreign Member of the Academie des Sciences
- 2002: Elhuyar-Goldschmidt Lecturership
- 2001: Betancourt-Perronet Prize
- 1999: King Jaime I Prize
- 1997: Catalan-Sabatier Prize
- 1995: Humboldt Research Award
- 1994: Member of the Academia Europaea
