Fitxa persona

Carlos Martí-Gastaldo is a Spanish chemist (Premio Extraordinario de Licenciatura) who was

initially trained in Coordination Chemistry and Molecular Magnetism in E. Coronado´s group at

the ICMol-University of Valencia. He received his PhD in Chemistry in 2009 for his work on

‘Multifunctional Magnetic Materials by using Coordination Polymers and 2D Layered Inorganic

Materials’, that was recognized with the ‘Young Researcher Olivier Kahn Recognition’ awarded

by the European Institute of Molecular Magnetism, the ‘NanoMatMol Prize’ to the best thesis in

Nanoscience and Molecular Materials awarded by the GENAM group of the RSEQ, and the

‘Premio Extraordinario de Tesis’ awarded by the Universidad de València He then shifted his

focus to apply his training to the design of Metal-Organic Frameworks during his postdoctoral

stage as a Marie Curie Fellow in M. J. Rosseinsky’s group at the University of Liverpool (2010-

2012). During this postdoctoral stage he was awarded with the ‘Postdoc SusChem Prize’ to young

chemistry investigators by the RSEQ and the Spanish Technological Platform of Sustainable

Chemistry (2011).

He began his independent career in 2013 in Liverpool, with the award of a Royal Society

University Research Fellowship (~40 awarded in the UK annually). In 2014, he returned to the

ICMol with a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship (~15 awarded in Chemistry annually) to lead the design

of highly stable MOFs, one of the strategic research lines of the 1st ‘María de Maeztu’ Excellence

program awarded to the center. With the award of an ERC Starting Grant in 2016, he established

his own research group at the ICMol. The Functional Inorganic Materials team (FuniMAT) is

focused on the design and processing of porous inorganic materials for biological and

environmental-related applications. He founded the start-ups ‘Porous Materials for Advanced

Applications’ (2018) and ‘Porous Materials in Action’ (2021) to accelerate the transfer of research

results into socially useful products and services. He received an ERC Consolidator Grant in 2021

and is one of the guarantor investigators of the 2nd ‘María de Maeztu’ Excellence program of

ICMol (2021-2024), and main responsible of the implementation of a new research line for the

Molecular Design of Biomaterials in the center.

His independent trajectory has been recognized with the ‘Excelencia Investigadora Prize by the

Real Sociedad Española de Química (RSEQ) y BASF’ (2022), the ‘RSEQ-Sigma-Aldrich Young

Investigator Prize’ (2015), the ‘X Scientific-Technical Prize Ciudad de Algemesí’ for young

investigators awarded by Ayuntamiento de Algemesí (2015), and the VLC/StartUp Prize in two

editions (2022 & 2018) to the 2 start-ups created by the PI. Since 2021, Martí-Gastaldo also acts

as the Equal opportunities representative of the ICMol at the gender equality commission of the

‘Severo Ochoa’ Centres and ‘María de Maeztu’ Units of Excellence Alliance (SOMMa).