My Story
Prof. Dr. Josep Puigmartí-Luis is a chemist who completed a master in Chemistry and Food Engineering at “Institut Químic de Sarrià (IQS)” (2003) and did a PhD in materials science at Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB). His work in supramolecular and flow chemistry, has been awarded with “Premi Antoni de Martí i Franquès de Ciències Químiques”, award from the Institut d’Estudis Catalans (2009), St. Jordi award from the Institut d’Estudis Catalans and the Societat Catalana de Química (2006) and an ETH fellowship in 2008.
In 2012, he was appointed a Ramon Y Cajal (RyC) researcher, but after two years as a RyC, he decided to move back to Switzerland where in 2015 was awarded an ERC starting grant to study and control self-assembly processes of metal-organic based crystalline materials.
In 2019, he was appointed as an ICREA Research Professor, and since 2020, his group is located at the University of Barcelona (UB).
His research interests include the synthesis and controlled design of functional materials in solution and on surfaces, as well as the development of microfluidic technologies to command and understand the formation and function of unprecedented out-of-equilibrium assemblies (a key aspect to unveil structure-properties correlations of new functional matter).
Fellowships and Awards
| Rising Star Award | IEEE International Conference on Manipulation, Manufacturing and Measurement on the Nanoscale (IEEE 3M-NANO) | 2023 | Visiting Professor | University of Valencia | 2019 |
| Chair of Excellence | Université Grenoble Alpes | 2018 |
| Visiting Professor | University of Angers (France) | 2017 |
| Visiting Researcher | Kyoto University and iCeMS Institute (Japan) | 2017 |
| Marie Curie Grantee | Marie Curie Career Integration Grant | 2012-2014 |
| Ramon y Cajal Researcher | Spanish Tenure-Track Position | 2012 |
| Beatriu de Pinós Postdoctoral Grant | Catalan Government (Declined in favour of the RyC grant) | 2012 |
| Antoni de Martí y Franquès | Award Given by the Institut d’Estudis Catalans (IEC) | 2009 |
| ETH Fellowship | Awarded by ETH for the project: “In-situ formation of three-dimensional bendable networks by microfluidic guided self-assembly” | 2008 |
| St. Jordi Award | Award given by the Catalan Society of Chemistry | 2006 |
| FI Fellowship | Fellowship given by the Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology (ICN) and AGAUR | 2003-2007 |