Prof. Arjan W. Kleij, Group Leader at ICIQ and ICREA Researcher, has been awarded the Rafael Usón Medal, the most prestigious recognition granted by the Specialized Group of Organometallic Chemistry (GEQO) of the Royal Spanish Society of Chemistry (RSEQ).
This award honours his outstanding contributions to the field of organometallic chemistry, particularly in transition metal-catalyzed carbon–carbon bond formation and the valorisation of CO₂, always with a focus on sustainability. The award ceremony took place on October 3rd, at the Rectorate of the University of Alcalá, during the XLIII GEQO Meeting.
“I am grateful to all current and former members of the Kleij laboratory and I want to express my gratitude to both ICIQ and ICREA for the long-term support of our research. The internal and external collaborators over the years have also been crucial to achieve the key advances we have reported in the last decade”, said Prof. Kleij during his acceptance speech.
Prof. Kleij received various recognitions/awards; in 2000 he received an NWO TALENT fellowship, was elected ICREA junior fellow in 2006, and featured in the “Author Profile section” of Angewandte Chemie in 2018. He joined Organic Chemistry Frontiers (RSC) as an Associate Editor (2019). He also was endowed with the 2020 Excellence award from the Spanish Chemical Society, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in 2021, and received the 2023 European Sustainable Chemistry Award (ESCA) and the 2023 Catalan Chemical Society Scientific Excellence award. Since 2023, he is the scientific coordinator of the HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN-JD joint doctoral network “D-Carbonize”.
He has been an invited professor at Tokyo University (2022) and visiting professor at the university of Salerno (Italy) in 2024. In 2019 he was the chair of the 4th EuCheMS Congress on Green and Sustainable Chemistry (EuGSC-4) in Tarragona. Prof. Kleij has (co)authored around 240 international (journal) publications and 6 patent applications with total citations >17350 (h-index 72, i10-index 188).
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