Javier García Martinez

<h2 id="career">Career</h2>
García Martínez is a professor of <a href="/facts/Inorganic_chemistry/ErD6ypnb">inorganic chemistry</a> at the <a href="/facts/University_of_Alicante/x4GqCn5V">University of Alicante</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3">3</a> and directs the <a href="/facts/Molecular_nanotechnology/D6GsTH54">molecular nanotechnology</a> laboratory where he researches<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4">4</a>  and works on the manufacture of nanomaterials for energy applications, water treatment, production and adequate use of biomass and <a href="/facts/Gas_separation/7vLrKGMU">gas separation</a> techniques.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5">5</a>  
While at the <a href="/facts/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology/Xk49vNA8">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a> (MIT) in 2004 he founded Rive Technology to exploit his catalyst research.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6">6</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7">7</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8">8</a> The company was acquired by the North American multinational WR Grace in 2019.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9">9</a>
He has published on nanomaterials and on energy-related topics.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10">10</a> His latest published books are Nanotechnology for the Energy Challenge (Wiley, 2010), The Chemical Element (Wiley, 2011), Chemistry Education (Wiley 2014), Mesoporous Zeolites (Wiley 2015),<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11">11</a> Chemistry Entrepreunership (Wiley 2021) and Spain for sure (Planeta, 2021).

<h2 id="awards-honors-and-societies">Awards, honors and societies</h2>
He was the president of the <a href="/facts/International_Union_of_Pure_and_Applied_Chemistry/2AV6myCK">International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry</a> in 2022–23.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12">12</a> He currently leads the Chair of Science and Society of the Rafael del Pino Foundation, where he directs a report on technology and competitiveness of the Spanish economy. He also chairs the Young Academy of Spain<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13">13</a> is a member of the Board of Trustees and the Advisory Council of the Gadea Foundation for Science.
He was recognized by the <a href="/facts/World_Economic_Forum/91KlC7Cb">World Economic Forum</a> as a Young Global Leader and by the <a href="/facts/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology/Xk49vNA8">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a> with the <a href="/facts/Innovators_Under_35/71zm6lG3">Innovators Under 35</a> award,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14">14</a> and in 2014, he was awarded the <a href="/facts/Rey_Jaime_I_Awards/Nge8W2Jf">Rey Jaime I Award</a> in the category of New Technologies. In 2015 he received the Emerging Researcher Award from the <a href="/facts/American_Chemical_Society/Alf3uhaF">American Chemical Society</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15">15</a> In 2017, he was recognized by the American Chemical Society as the best entrepreneur in the US in the chemical sector and in 2018 he received the Kathryn C. Hach Award. He is a member of the Council on Emerging Technologies of the World Economic Forum, of the Global Young Academy and Fellow of the <a href="/facts/Royal_Society_of_Chemistry/1fg4xnqR">Royal Society of Chemistry</a> and the <a href="/facts/American_Chemical_Society/Alf3uhaF">American Chemical Society</a>.

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