Avelino Corma Canos

Avelino Corma Canós
Born December 1951 (age 64)
Moncófar, Valencian Community, Spain
Nationality Spanish
Fields chemistry
Institutions Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
Alma mater Universidad de Valencia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Notable awards Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
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Avelino Corma Canós (born 1951) is a Spanish chemist distinguished for his world-leading work on heterogeneous catalysis.

He received a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from the Universidad de Valencia (1967-1973) and a Ph.D. in chemistry frot the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1976. In 1979 he started working as a researcher at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, and in 1987 he was a full professor. He has been carrying out research in heterogeneous catalysis in academia and in collaboration with companies. He has worked on fundamental aspects of acid-base and redox catalysis with the aim of understanding the nature of the active sites and reaction mechanisms. With these bases has developed catalysts that are being used commercially in several industrial processes.[2]

He has published more than 1000 documents [3] and has more than 100 patents.

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