Former members

Prof. Jordi Marquet

Jordi Marquet received his PhD in Chemistry from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB, Spain) under the supervision of Prof. Marcial Moreno-Mañas. After a postdoctoral stay at the University of Florida (USA) in the group of Prof. Alan Katritzky (Heterocyclic Chemistry and Reaction Mechanisms), and another one in the University of Leiden (The Netherlands) in the group of Dr. Cyril Varma (Photochemistry and Photophysics), he became Full Professor of Organic Chemistry in the Chemistry Department of UAB in 1993. His research interests had been focused over the years on the study of fundamental aspects of chemical reactivity, especially the activation of chemical processes by environmentally-friendly methods (Photochemistry, Electrochemistry and Catalysis). In the last few years this interest has shifted to the study of new and more efficient methods of polymer synthesis, and to the design of new polymeric materials with special properties. He has also been a consultant for chemical companies and promoted the creation of a Joint Research Centre UAB-Henkel in the UAB (2011-2020), where he acted as co-coordinator from the UAB. He has held different senior management positions, and among them, he has been responsible of the “Technology Transfer and Innovation” policy of the UAB for 7 years as a Vicerector and Director of the “UAB Research Park”. He has more than 120 publications in international journals, he has supervised 15 doctoral thesis and holds 14 registered patents. After about 40 years of service at UAB, he retired in 2021.