NAZARIO MARTÍN is Full Professor at University Complutense of Madrid and vice-director of the IMDEA-Nanoscience Institute. He is Doctor h.c. by La Havana university (Cuba) and Castilla La Mancha University (Spain) and full member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Spain (RAC) and corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Doctors of Spain (RADE). He has been visiting professor at the universities of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Los Angeles (UCLA) and at the universities of Angers and Strasbourg (France). His research interests are focused on molecular and supramolecular chemistry of carbon nanostructures in the context of chirality, electron transfer and biomedical and photovoltaic applications. He has published over 640 peer reviewed papers and supervised 53 doctoral theses. He has been co-editor of 7 scientific books and guest editor in 14 special issues of important scientific journals.

He has been the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Materials Chemistry (A, B and C. 2015-19) of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). He held the Presidency of the Confederation of Scientific Societies of Spain (COSCE, 2015-19) and the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ)(2006-2012).

Prof. Martín has been distinguished with several national and international awards. Among them, the DuPont Award for Science, 2007; the Gold Medal and Research Award of the RSEQ, 2012; King Jaime I Award in basic research, 2012; the Miguel Catalán Award of the regional govern of the Madrid Community, 2015; the Alexander von Humboldt Award (AvH Foundation) in 2013; the Richard E. Smalley Award (ElectroChemical Society, ECS) in 2013; and the EuChems lecture in 2012. He held the ERC Advanced Grant “Chirallcarbon” (2013-2019) and, more recently, he has been granted with the Synergy-ERC Grant with the project “TomATTO” as well as the most prestigious Spanish National Award in Chemistry “Enrique Moles” given by the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation (MICINN) of Spain, both in 2020. More recently, he has just received the Nanotechnology National Award in June 2025.

He is a member of several international and national committees, including international awards. He is currently a member of the Scientific-Technical Committee of the Statal Research Agency of Spain. He is a fellow of the RSC, fellow of the Electrochemical Society (USA), fellow of the Academia Europaea and a fellow of Chemistry Europe.

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