Rafael Sotomayor PhD

Dr. Rafael Luque Alvarez De Sotomayor, Ph.D. is a Chinese Academy of Sciences Visiting Professor at the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry. He completed his Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Cordoba. Luque is also a member of the Editorial Board of prestigious journals including Chemical Society Reviews and Green Chemistry from the RSC, ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering from ACS, ChemCatChem from Wiley, Catalysis Communications from Elsevier, and Topics in Current Chemistry and Scientific Reports from Springer-Nature, among others. Prof. Luque is a 2018, 2019, and 2020 Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics. Prof. Luque is also the Director of the Center for Molecular Design and Modern Organic Chemistry at RUDN University in Moscow, Russia, is also Chair Professor from the Department of Applied Chemistry at Xi´an Jiaotong University (China) and DFSP Distinguished Scientist at King Saud University in Saudi Arabia. Rafael received also awards including the Marie Curie Prize from Instituto Andaluz de Quimica Fina in Spain (2011), the Green Talents award from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in Germany (2011), the TR35 Spain from Technology Review and MIT as one of the top 10 young entrepreneurs in Spain (2012), the RSC Environment, Sustainability and Energy Early Career Award (2013) from the Royal Society of Chemistry UK, the 2015 Lu Jiaxi lectureship from the College of Chemistry and Engineering in Xiamen University (China) and very recently the 2018 ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering Lectureship award.