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Armando J. L. Pombeiro is Full Professor Jubilado at Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa (ULisboa), former Distant Director at RUDN University (Moscow), Full Member of Academy of Sciences of Lisbon (first President of its Scientific Council; former Secretary-General, Vice-President of Class of Sciences, representative at international organizations), Corresponding Member of Brazilian Academy of Sciences, Fellow of European Academy of Sciences (EurASc) and of Academia Europaea. Former member of NATO Science & Technology (S&T) Panel, of Higher Council for Science, Technology & Innovation and of Higher Council for S&T (Portugal), of External Evaluation Commission of Physical Sciences of Portuguese Universities, and of External Review Panels for assessment/accreditation of some foreign universities.
Founding President of College of Chemistry of ULisboa, former Coordinator of Centro de Química Estrutural, of its thematic line Synthesis and Catalysis, and of Coordination Chemistry and Catalysis group, founding Director of multi-university Catalysis and Sustainability PhD Program, co-founder of the Portuguese Electrochemical Society (former President, Secretary, Vice-President), of the Iberoamerican Society of Electrochemistry and of the journal Portugaliae Electrochimica Acta. He chaired many major international conferences, the latest one being the EurASc Symposium 2024 on Science for Sustainability, held at the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon.
He lectured post-graduate courses at foreign universities, eg, École Polytechnique (Paris), Camerino (Italy) and Jyvaskyla (Finland) Universities.
His research addresses activation of small molecules with industrial, environmental or biological significance, including: catalysis under mild/sustainable and unconventional conditions (eg, alkanes functionalization; oxidation of VOCs, volatile organic compounds; C-C couplings, CO2 utilization, water in catalysis; water splitting and oxygen reduction reactions); polynuclear and supramolecular structures (eg, metal-organic frameworks, MOFs); non-covalent interactions in synthesis; bioactive and chemosensor coordination compounds; molecular electrochemistry; theoretical studies. He authored or edited 15 books, (co-)authored over 1,000 research publications, ca. 40 patents (923 indexed publications, ca. 33,000 total citations, ca. 15,000 citing articles, h-index = 81, Web of Science, Jan. 2025). Presented 130 plenary and keynote lectures at international conferences.
He was awarded Honorary/Chair Professorships by St. Petersburg State University and National Taiwan University of S&T, inaugural SCF French-Portuguese Prize by French Chemical Society, Madinabeitia-Lourenço Prize by Spanish Royal Chemical Society, Vanadis Award, Prizes of Portuguese Chemical and Electrochemical Societies, Scientific Prizes of Technical ULisboa and of ULisboa. In his honor, Special Issues of Coord. Chem. Rev. and J. Organometal. Chem. were published, and a symposium was held.
