Graduate and Doctor in Chemistry. Full Professor of Physical Chemistry.

Lectures in the Degrees in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, in Chemistry, and in the master degrees in Science, Technology and Environmental Management. Member of the ChemInnova Educational Innovation Group. Received three Docentia evaluations with maximum qualification.

Member of the competitive reference group React!, he works on understanding of the mechanisms of chemical reactions and of diffuse environmental pollution, as well as the development of sustainable technologies for water treatment. Author of technical reports, scientific, educational and informative articles, book chapters and regular speaker at specialized conferences. Dirixiu 13 PhD Theses (4 abroad Spain). Participated in ca. fifty projects, directed several, and made frequent activities of transfer of knowledge with companies.

Visiting professor in Padova, Zagreb, Bragança, Rabat, Delft and Naples, and invited researcher at various institutions: universities of Dublin, Newcastle and Coimbra; Institute for Fundamental Research in Organic Chemistry of Fukuoka; and International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory of Braga. Researcher Marie Skłodowska-Curie at the Max Planck Institut für Strahlenchemie.

He is IUPAC Fellow, MSC Fellow and Epifanio Campo Research Award 2021.

He was Dean and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Sciences; Coordinator of the Master's Degree in Environmental and Fundamental Chemistry, of the Degree in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, of External Practices and Responsible for International Mobility. Coordinate UDC to Scientific Culture Dissemination Unit.

At the international level, he is a member of the IUPAC Subcommittee on Structural and Mechanistic Chemistry and the permanent committee of the European Symposia on Organic Reactivity.

He has been recognized five five-year teaching terms, five six-year research terms and has more than eighteen years of management experience in individual-person positions.