Fitxa persona

Enrique Ortí obtained his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry with academic honors from the Univ. of Valencia in 1985. In 1987, he did a postdoctoral stay at the Univ Namur (Belgium), where he worked on the calculation of periodic systems (conjugated polymers and aggregates). He became Assistant and Associate Professor in Physical Chemistry at the University of Valencia in 1986 and 1987, respectively. Since 2008, he is Full Professor of Physical Chemistry at this university. His teaching activities mainly involve quantum chemistry and spectroscopy.

Enrique Ortí is research member of the Institute of Molecular Science (ICMol) at the University of Valencia, where he leads the Molecular Materials Theoretical Chemistry Group (MolMatTC). His main research interests concern the theoretical characterization of electroactive and photoactive molecular systems with special relevance in the field of molecular electronics. The results obtained by the MolMatTC group have been of special relevance for: 1) optimizing the photophysical properties of luminescent materials used in light-emitting devices (LECs and OLEDs), 2) understanding the charge transfer processes of electron donor/acceptor systems used in solar cells, 3) disentangling the structural and energetic aspects of molecular aggregation phenomena and supramolecular polymer formation, and 4) predicting the charge and energy transport properties of new organic semiconductors.

He has published around 360 papers (h index of 65), many of them in collaboration with experimental groups working in the field of organic electronics. He has been involved in 38 research projects (24 as principal investigator), has given around 130 invited/plenary talks and seminars and has supervised 17 Doctoral Thesis. He has been Visiting Professor of the Univ. of Mons (Belgium), and, in 2014, he was distinguished with the Award to the Research Excellence of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ).