Casanovas Salas, Jordi

Short biography

Jordi Casanovas (Barcelona 1964) carried out his Chemistry degree studies and Ph. D. in Chemical Sciences (Physical-Chemistry specialty) at the Universitat de Barcelona. After 3 years as Assistant Professor at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, in 1998 joined the Chemistry Department of the Universitat de Lleida, where is currently working as Associate Professor. His main responsibility is the teaching of Chemistry and Materials Science subjects at the Higher Polytechnic School.

Since its foundation in 2003, he is a member of the IMEM research group at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. His research work is oriented to the study of physico-chemical properties of different types of materials, mainly conducting polymers and nanosystems of biological interest. These studies are carried out using Quantum Chemistry techniques, that is tools of the so-called Computational Chemistry, and mainly subsidized by Spanish Government Research Projects and Contracts with companies.

With four six-year consecutive periods of research activity, he is coauthor of more than a hundred articles published in international specialized scientific journals, which received more than 2800 citations from articles indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (H-index=28; data updated in October 2021).