Hermenegildo García

Hermenegildo García (Spain) is full professor at the Technical University of Valencia. He has been working on heterogeneous catalysis using metal nanoparticles supported on metal oxides, layered double hydroxides, metal-free graphitic carbon nitride and graphene-like materials and metal-organic-frameworks, among other materials. In the field of photocatalysis, besides pollutants degradation in water and gaseous effluents, he has been working in photocatalytic hydrogen generation and overall water splitting, photocatalytic CO₂ reduction and nitrogen fixation. He has published over 900 research articles and has an H index of 144 according to Google Scholar. He has appeared in the list of Highly-Cited Researchers by Clarivate since the first list was issued in 2014. Among other distinctions, he received the Cilag award of the Spanish Chemical Royal Society in 2011, the Rey Jaime I award on New technologies in 2016, the Spanish National Award in Scientific Research Enrique Moles awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation in 2021, the Rylander award given by the Organic Reactions Catalysis Society of the North American Catalysis Society in 2024, and the Portuguese-Spanish award in 2025. He is Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Bucharest in 2011 and member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences since 2024. Academia Europaea and the European Academy of Sciences.