Dr. Jesús Santamaría


Education

• B. Sc. in Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, University of La Laguna, Spain, 1981.
• M. Sc. in Chemical Engineering, University of La Laguna, Spain, 1982.
• Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Salford University, England, 1985.


Employment


Current:

• Professor of Chemical Engineering. Departament of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Zaragoza, Spain (since 1990)
• Vice-Director of the Nanoscience Institute of Aragon (since 2007)
• Head of the Nanostructured Films and Particles Research Group


Previous:

• 1985 Research Associate, University of Zaragoza, Spain
• 1986 Associate Professor, University of Zaragoza, Spain
• 1992-96 Head of Chemical Engineering Department, University of Zaragoza, Spain
• 2001-2003 Dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Zaragoza, Spain
• Sept. 2003 – July 2007 Director of Research, Regional Government of Aragon, Spain.


Other Activities

• 1989 Visiting Professor, University of Notre Dame, USA
• 2008 Visiting Professor Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
• Editor, Chemical Engineering Journal since 2000
• Editorial Board memberships:
o Catalysis Today, 1992-2005
o Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 2005-2008
• Scientific Advisory Board Max-Planck Institut für Dynamik komplexer technischer Systeme, Magdeburg, Germany, 2002-12.
• Vice-President of the Spanish Network on Micro and Nanotechnologies –IBERNAM, 2009-12.
• Executive Board, Networking Biomedical Research Center of Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN), since 2011.
• Selected Honours and Awards: 3M Innovation Award (2001); Honeywell-UOP Lectureship, (2007); Pérez Castro Research Award (2008); Hong Kong Institute of Advanced Studies Distinguished Lecturer, (2008); Doctor Honoris Causa, National University of Litoral, Argentina (2010), SAMCA Professor of Nanotechnology (2011), Cervantes Chair Lecturer, Academia General Militar, (2013), Inaugural Lecture, University of Zaragoza (2014).