Antonio M Echavarren

Antonio M. Echavarren Pablos (born 1955) is a Spanish chemist who has contributed to the recent advances in gold and palladium chemistry.

He obtained his PhD at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid in 1982. Since 1992 he is a full professor at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, where he heads the Research Group on Organometallic Chemistry Directed Towards Organic Synthesis. Since 2004 he is working as Group Leader at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ).

He received the 2004 Janssen-Cylag Award in Organic Chemistry of the Royal Spanish Chemical Society (RSEQ), the 2010 Gold Medal of the RSEQ and an Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the ACS in 2015. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, has been Secretary General of the RSEQ (1999-2004) and is President of the Catalan Section of the RSEQ (since 2012).

He was the Liebig Lecturer at the German Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker) in 2006,, Abbot Lecturer in Organic Chemistry (University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign, 2009), Schulich Visiting Professor (Technion, Haifa, 2011), Sir Robert Robinson Distinguished Lecturer (University of Liverpool, 2011), and Novartis Lecturer in Organic Chemistry (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015).. In 2013, he got a European Research Council Advanced Grant and in 2014 he was the president of the 49th EUCHEM Conference on Stereochemistry (Bürgenstock conference). Since 2014, he is a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher.

Prof. Echavarren is a member of the Advisory Board of Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, Chemical Society Reviews, Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis, ChemCatChem, and Organic Letters, member of the Editorial Board and Chemistry European Journal, and Associate Editor of Chemical Communications.