Antonio Echavarren#
| Membership Number: | 5675 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.iciq.org/research/research_group/prof-antonio-m-echavarren/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-6808-3007 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1992 - present Professor of Organic Chemistry, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
- 2004 - present Research Professor, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
- 1988 - 1992 Researcher, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
- 1984 - 1986 Assistant Professor, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
- 1986 - 1988 NATO Fellow, Colorado State University
- 1982 - 1984 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Boston College
Fields of Scholarship
- Organic synthesis
- Organic chemistry
- Organometallic chemistry
Honours and Awards
- 2004 Janssen-Cilag Organic Chemistry Award of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ)
- 2006 Liebig Lecturship, Organic Division, German Chemical Society
- 2009 Abbot Lecture in Organic Chemistry University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign
- 2010 Gold Medal of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ) and FEIQUE Research Award
- 2011 Schulich Visiting Professor Lectureship, Technion, Haifa
- 2012 Sir Robert Robinson Distinguished Lecture, University of Liverpool, UK, 28 November
- 2012 Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) Lectureship, Chemistry Department at The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California
- 2012 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2013 ERC Advanced Grant "Advancing Gold Catalysis (CATGOLD)"
- 2014 - 2016 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher
- 2015 Novartis Lecturer in Organic Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 2015 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, ACS
- 2016 Author profile in Angewandte Chemie: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 10.1002/anie.201606837.
- 2017 Kurt Alder Lectureship, University of Cologne, July
- 2019 University of California, Irvine Organic Synthesis Lecturer, June 4
- 2019 University of California, Santa Barbara, Eastman Lectureship, June 6 and 7
- 2019 Rafael Usón Lectureship, XIIth International School on Organometallic Chemistry Castellón, June 12
- 2019 ERC Advanced Grant "Bioinspired Catalytic Metalofoldamers (FOLDMETCAT)"
