Rafael Luque

Prof. Rafael Luque (Ph.D 2005 from Universidad de Cordoba, Spain) has been at the forefront of groundbreaking research on biomass and waste valorisation practises to materials, fuels and chemicals over the past 20 years. He has also extensively published in the areas of (nano)materials science, heterogeneous (nano)catalysis, microwave and flow chemistry, biofuels and green chemical methods in synthetic organic chemistry. He has spent sabbatical periods at the EPA at Cincinnati (with Dr. Rajender Varma), at the Max Planck in Berlin (with Prof. Markus Antonietti) and City University of Hong Kong (with Prof. Carol Lin). Prof. Luque is currently DSFP Chair Professor at King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, International Distinguished Scientist and Rectoral Advisor at Universidad ECOTEC (Ecuador) and Project Director and Head of the B4 lab at the National University of Science and Technology Polytehnica Bucharest (Romania). He has published over 1000 research articles, filed 8 patent applications and edited >10 books as well as numerous contributions to book chapters and invited, guest and keynote lectures worldwide. Prof. Luque is a 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate Analytics).