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Emilio Palomares was born in Valencia in 1974.
He studied Biology (Biochemical speciality) in the Universitat de València (1997). After graduating he joined the group of Prof. Hermenegildo García at the Universitat Politécnica de València where he got his Doctoral Thesis (2001).
In 2001 he made a postdoctoral stay with a Marie Curie Fellowship at the Centre for Electronic Materials and Devices of the Imperial College in London (UK). There he began his work with molecular and biomolecular devices to obtain renewable energies, under the direction of Prof. James R. Durrant.
In 2004 Emilio got a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship in the Universitat de València joining the Institut de Ciència Molecular of this University.
In April 2006 he took a position in ICIQ, where he currently leads a research group which is focusing research in investigation on optoelectronic properties of molecular and biomolecular devices (photovoltaic devices and optical sensors). In November 2007 he was appointed ICREA (Catalan Institution of Research and Advanced Studies) Professor.
Emilio Palomares has several awards including the Young Chemist Research Award of the Real Sociedad Española de Química and has published until 2007 more than 65 peer-rewied papers. He is currently the Project Coordinator of several European Projects (FP6 and FP7) and cooperates with several national and international photovoltaic companies. |