Prof. Dr. Tomás Torres

45Tomás Torres

 

Full Professor at the Department of Organic Chemistry at UAM, and Senior Researcher

Associated to IMDEA-Nanociencia.

PUBLICATIONS (Research articles, Reviews and Book chapters): 350; PATENTS: 40

PLENARY AND INVITED TALKS: 180

DOCTORAL THESIS SUPERVISED: 30 (+12 in course)

RESEARCH PROJECTS FINANCED (as main researcher): 50 (Agencies: MEC, MICINN, CAM, ESF and EU)

H-FACTOR AND CITATION INDEX

H-factor: 54 (ISI Web of Knowledge). 308 research papers with 9.599 citations; average citations per item of 31.17 

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

- Extraordinary PhD Award by UAM (1979); - Fellowship of the Max-Planck Society (1978-1980); - Visiting Fellow of the Japan Society for the promotion of Science (JSPS), and visiting Professor at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan (2000); -  JANSSEN CILAG prize for Organic Chemistry 2005 by the Royal Society of Chemistry of Spain; -  Schulich Lectureship Guest and Visiting Professor at Technion, Israel Institute of Technology (2008); -  Doctor Honoris Causa by the Ivanovo State University of Chemistry and Technology (ISUCT), Russia, 2009; - Visiting Professor at The University of Texas, El Paso, USA (2012)

 

SIGNIFICANT RECENT PUBLICATIONS

- D. González-Rodríguez, E. Carbonell, G. de Miguel Rojas, C. Atienza Castellanos, D. M. Guldi, T. Torres, Activating Multistep Charge-Transfer Processes in Fullerene-Subphthalocyanine-Ferrocene Molecular Hybrids as a Function of Orbital Overlap, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 16488-16500.

- J. Bartelmess, B. Ballesteros, G. de la Torre, D. Kiessling, S. Campidelli, M. Prato, T. Torres, D. M. Guldi, Phthalocyanine-Pyrene Conjugates – a Powerful Approach Towards Carbon Nanotube Solar Cells, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 16202-16211.

- G. Bottari, G. de la Torre, D. M. Guldi, T. Torres, Covalent and Non-Covalent Phthalocyanine-Carbon Nanostructure Systems: Synthesis, Photoinduced Electron Transfer, and Application to Molecular  Photovoltaics. Chem. Rev. 2010, 110, 6768-6816.

-  J. Malig, N. Jux, D. Kiessling, J.-J. Cid, P. Vázquez, T. Torres, D. M. Guldi, Towards tunable graphene / phthalocyanine-PPV hybrid systems, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2011, 50, 3506-3509.

-J. Guilleme, D. González-Rodríguez, T. Torres, Triflate-Subphthalocyanines: Versatile, Reactive Intermediates for Axial Functionalization at the Boron Atom, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2011, 50, 3561-3565.

- I. López-Duarte,M. Wang,R. Humphry-Baker,M. Ince, M. V. Martínez-Díez, M. K. Nazeeruddin, T. Torres, M. Grätzel, Molecular Engineering of Zinc Phthalocyanines with Novel anchoring Groups, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 1731–1976

-M.-E. Ragoussi, J.-J. Cid, J.-H. Yum, G. de la Torre, D. Di Censo, M. Grätzel,  M. K. Nazeeruddin, T. Torres, Carboxyethynyl Anchoring Ligands: A Means to Improve the Efficiency of Phthalocyanine-Sensitized Solar Cells,  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Eng. 2012, 51, 4375-4378 

- M. -E. Ragoussi, J. Malig, G. Katsukis, B. Butz, E. Spiecker E, G. de la Torre, T. Torres, D. M. Guldi, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Eng. 2012,  doi: 10.1002/anie.201201452