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Antonio M. Echavarren was born in Bilbao (Basque Country, Spain) and obtained his PhD at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) in 1982 with Prof. Francisco Fariña. After a postdoctoral stay in Boston College with Prof. T. Ross Kelly, he joined the UAM as an Assistant Professor (1984-86).
Following a two years period as a NATO-fellow in the group of Prof. John K. Stille in Colorado State University, he joined the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the CSIC (Spanish Research Council) in Madrid where he stayed until 1992. That year he returned to the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid as a Professor of Organic Chemistry. He is also Professor of Research of the CSIC since 2004.
He was appointed in 2004 as Group Leader at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) in Tarragona.
His research interests center on the development of new catalytic methods based on the organometallic chemistry of transition metals as well as the synthesis of natural products and polyarenes.
He received the 2004 Janssen-Cylag (Organic Chemistry) award of the Real Sociedad Española de Química (RSEQ) and has been Félix Serratosa Lecturer (Barcelona 2005), 2006 Liebig Lecturer (Organic Division of the German Chemical Society), Lilly-IQOG Lecturer (Madrid, 2006) and Abbot Lecturer (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaing, 2009). In 2010 he received the Golden Medal and the Research Award of the RSEQ.
He is a member of the Editorial Board of ChemCatChem (2009-) , the International Advisory Board of the European Journal of Organic Chemistry (2006-), ChemSusChem (2007-), Organic Biomolecular Chemistry (2008-), Chemical Society Reviews (2009-) and Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis (2011-).*
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