SACSIS is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor David Diaz Diaz as new Section Editor (Organic Chemistry) of The All Results Journals: Chem Editorial Board.

Prof. Díaz Díaz was born in 1974 in Tenerife (Spain). He received both BSc (1997) and PhD (2002) degrees in Chemistry (University of La Laguna, Spain) under the supervision of Prof. Víctor S. Martín.

In 2002, he joined Prof. Finn’s research group at The Scripps Research Institute (San Diego, USA) for a post-doctoral stay, where he also worked in close collaboration with Nobel Laureate Prof. K. Barry Sharpless. In 2006, he was appointed as a ‘Ramón y Cajal’ Researcher at The Autonomous University of Madrid. In 2007, he joined The Dow Chemical Company (Switzerland) as Chemist III and was promoted to Sr. Chemist in 2008. In 2009, he was appointed as a Tenured Scientist of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) at the Institute of Materials Science of Aragon (CSIC-University of Zaragoza). 

Among several awards, in 2010 he was appointed as an Alexander von Humboldt Experienced Researcher at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Regensburg (Germany). He has published over 100 scientific contributions including research articles, reviews, book chapters and congress proceedings. He is currently an Assist. Professor at this University and a Scientist of the Institute of Chemical Synthesis and Homogeneous Catalysis (ISQCH, CSIC-University of Zaragoza).

His academic research interests include the development of new synthetic methodologies, synthesis of multifunctional polymers, sustainable chemistry, bio-inspired materials and synthesis of functional soft materials for applications in catalysis, electronics, environmental remediation and biomedicine