Miquel Solà

Miquel Solà (1964) obtained his PhD at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1991 with academic honours. His doctoral research under the supervision of Profs. Joan Bertran and Agustí Lledós was awarded with the Catalan Saint Albert Prize. After several months in a consultant private company, in 1993 he moved to the University of Girona (UdG) as assistant researcher. In 1994 he did postdoctoral research in Amsterdam with Evert Jan Baerends and in 1995 in Calgary with Tom Ziegler. He was appointed assistant professor of the UdG in 1997. In 2001, he was awarded with the Catalan Distinction for the Promotion of University Research (young scientist category). Since 2003, he holds a permanent position as full professor in the UdG. He is coauthor of about 250 scientific papers and he has supervised 12 doctoral Theses. He was awarded with the ICREA Academia Prize 2009 that allowed him concentrating his efforts in research for five years.

His research interests have been mainly focused on theoretical studies of organic and organometallic reaction mechanisms with special emphasis on fullerenes and their reactivity, on the use of quantum molecular similarity measures, the development conceptual density functional theory, and the analysis of electron delocalization and aromaticity.