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Marcel Swart
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Personal details


IQCC Institute, Department of Chemistry
University of Girona (UdG)
ParcUdG (Monturiol P3-A8)
c/ Emili Grahit 91
17003 Girona, Spain
E-mail: marcel.swart@gmail.com
Website: www.marcelswart.eu
Publications: www.marcelswart.eu/publ
ORCID: 0000-0002-8174-8488
Research databases: GScholar, Scopus, Dimensions, ResearcherID
Rankings: GS-Spain, Grupo-DIH, Stanford
IQCC Institute, Department of Chemistry
University of Girona (UdG)
ParcUdG (Monturiol P3-A8)
c/ Emili Grahit 91
17003 Girona, Spain
(see how to find us)
E-mail: marcel.swart@gmail.com
Website: www.marcelswart.eu
Publications: www.marcelswart.eu/publ
ORCID: 0000-0002-8174-8488
Research databases: GScholar, Scopus, Dimensions, ResearcherID
Rankings: GS-Spain, Grupo-DIH, Stanford

Appointments


09/2009-now
ICREA Professor at IQCC, University of Girona
07/2015-06/2023
Director IQCC institute, University of Girona
05/2006-09/2009
ICREA Junior Fellow at IQC, University of Girona
05/2004-05/2006
VICI Postdoctoral Fellow Prof. Bickelhaupt, VU University of Amsterdam
05/2002-05/2004
Chemistry of Complex Molecules Postdoctoral Fellow, VU University of Amsterdam

Education


03/1998-09/2002
PhD Theoretical Chemistry, University of Groningen (Netherlands)
"Density Functional Theory Applied to Copper Proteins"
Supervisors: Prof. HJC Berendsen, Prof. GW Canters, Prof. JG Snijders
Reading committee: Prof BW Dijkstra, Prof K Lammertsma, Prof AE Mark
08/1996
MSc Organic Chemistry, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

Honors and awards


2019
Elected Member of Academia Europaea
2017
Special award in honour of 120 years anniversary of Serbian Chemical Society for my continuous support for advancing chemical sciences in Serbia, as first and only foreigner
2017
Award for Best Paper in 2016 at the University of Belgrade (Serbia) with Maja Gruden
2015
Elected Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry
2014
Elected Fellow of Young Academy of Europe
2012
MGMS Silver Jubilee Prize from Molecular Graphics and Modelling Society
2010
Premi Extraordinari for best PhD thesis under my supervision: Dr. Sílvia Osuna
2009
ICREA Senior Research Professorship (permanent position) awarded
2009
Premi Extraordinari for best PhD thesis under my supervision: Dr. Mireia Güell
2006
ICREA Júnior Fellowship awarded (2006-2011)
2005
Young Scientist Excellent Award received from International Conference of Computational Methods in Science and Engineering (ICCMSE), Loutraki, Greece

International Scientific Committee


06/2026
Member of International Scientific Committee ICCC 2026 (Odense, DK)
04/2023
Member International Scientific Committee 2023 FrenchBIC annual meeting (Logonna-Daoulas, FR)
10/2021
Member International Scientific Committee HPC-Europa3 Transnational Access Meeting (Amsterdam, NL)
04/2014-04/2018
Chair of COST Action CM1305 (ECOSTBio); Supervision of activities and co-organization of meetings in Girona (09/2014), Marseille (01/2015), Warwick (04/2015), Belgrade (08/2015), Prague (04/2016), Brest (07/2016), Kraków (09/2016), Lisbon (03/2017), Dublin (12/2017), Berlin (04/2018)

Academic leadership


06/2010-now
Annual DFT Popularity Poll, see guest post on Nature Chemistry's Sceptical Chymist blog
06/2026
Member of International Scientific Committee ICCC 2026 (Odense, DK)
06/2023
"Chemical Reactivity: Computational Methods and Applications" Symposium at XXXIX Reunión Bienal RSEQ (Zaragoza, ES)
(main organizers: Carme Rovira, MS)
05/2023
The Academia Europaea & The Wenner-Gren Foundations International Symposium Publishing in Academia: Digital Challenges
(main organizers: Lars Engwall, Theo d'Haen, Kirsten Drotner and MS)
04/2023
Member International Scientific Committee 2023 FrenchBIC annual meeting (Logonna-Daoulas, FR)
04/2023
"30 years IQC(C)"
10/2021
Member International Scientific Committee HPC-Europa3 Transnational Access Meeting (Amsterdam, NL)
04/2014-04/2018
Chair of COST Action CM1305 (ECOSTBio); Supervision of activities and co-organization of meetings in Girona (09/2014), Marseille (01/2015), Warwick (04/2015), Belgrade (08/2015), Prague (04/2016), Brest (07/2016), Kraków (09/2016), Lisbon (03/2017), Dublin (12/2017), Berlin (04/2018)
04/2018
Girona Seminar on Predictive Catalysis: Transition-Metal Reactivity by Design (gender-balanced invited speaker list; presence of Prof B Feringa, Nobel Laureate Chemistry 2016); including support for Young Researchers Symposium (Girona, ES)
(main organizers: Anna Company, Miquel Costas, Sílvia Osuna, Xavi Ribas, MS)
06/2017
"Progress in Theoretical Chemistry: Biomolecules and Materials" Symposium at XXXVI Reunión Bienal RSEQ (Sitges, ES)
(main organizers: Nuria López, Gonzalo Jiménez-Osés, MS)
07/2016
Summer Training School COST Action CM1305 (ECOSTBio) (Groningen, NL)
(main organizers: Wesley Browne, Carole Duboc, Ricardo Louro, Edwin Otten, MS)
04/2016
Girona Seminar on Predictive Catalysis: Transition-Metal Reactivity by Design, with gender-balanced invited speaker list, (Girona, ES)
(main organizers: Anna Company, Miquel Costas, Sílvia Osuna, Xavi Ribas, MS)
07/2015
Summer Training School COST Action CM1305 (ECOSTBio) (Groningen, NL)
(main organizers: Wesley Browne, Carole Duboc, Ricardo Louro, Edwin Otten, MS)
06/2015
XXXI Meeting of the XRQTC Research Network (Girona, ES)
(main organizers: Lluis Blancafort, Sílvia Osuna, MS)
09/2012
CECAM/ESF Workshop on "Spin states in biochemistry and inorganic chemistry", highlighted in Nature Chem. 2013, 5, 7-9 (Zaragoza, ES)
(main organizers: Mikael Johansson, MS)

Editorial responsibilities


08/2022-now
04/2022-now
Community Gateway Advisor Inorganic Chemistry for Open Research Europe (impact)
01/2022-now
06/2021-now
Member Editorial College SciPost Chem
09/2015-now
03/2014-now
02/2006-02/2024
07/2020-12/2021
Assoc. Editor Inorganica Chimica Acta
03/2016-06/2020
Member Editorial Board Inorganica Chimica Acta
10/2015-10/2016
Associate Editor RSC Advances
06/2013-12/2015
Editor first text-book on spin states, "Spin states in biochemistry and inorganic chemistry: Influence on Structure and Reactivity" (Wiley, 2015)
06/2013
Guest editor special issue Current Organic Chemistry on "Nanoreactors And Molecular Prisons"
06/2012
Guest editor special issue Current Inorganic Chemistry on "Chameleon-like behavior of transition-metal complexes"
Reviewer activity
See profile at Publons and at ORCID

Public engagement


05/2023
Pint of Science, Girona
Invited talk: "El ball del combustible humà"
02/2022
COST Academy event Sustainability of COST Actions, COST Association, (online)
02/2021
QBtopIC discussion panel (session leader), QBIC Society, (online)
02/2021
COST Action Chairs Forum, COST Association, (online)
10/2019
Discussion meeting Young Science and Engineering Network, Groningen (NL)
05/2019
Promotor Doctor Honoris Causa Prof. EJ Baerends, Girona (ES)
09/2018
Validation workshop for 'Study on career impacts of ERC funding', Brussels (BE)
04/2018
Annual meeting EuroDoc, Tampere (FI)
04/2018
Panel member Foster Open Science (H2020), Barcelona (ES)
01/2018
Panel member ALLEA Workshop "Ethical aspects of Open Access: A Windy Road", Brussels (BE)
10/2017
Panel member SAPEA Workshop, Talinn (EE) (cancelled because of family circumstances)
09/2017
Panel member SAPEA Workshop, Madrid (ES)
09/2017
Panel member AE/ALLEA/YAE meeting, Budapest (HU)
05/2012
TEDxUdG, "I'm a Chemist....."

Selected administrative duties and committee work


06/2023-now
Member of the SAPEA Working Group related to the work package on ‘Early and mid-career researchers’ (WP6)
04/2023-now
04/2018-11/2025
Founding Member and Vice-President Grupo Especializado Química y Computación (GEQC) of Spanish Chemical Society (RSEQ)
10/2019-08/2024
Member Advisory Council of Young Academy of Europe (YAE)
06/2019-present
Member of UdG committee for Communication
09/2019-06/2023
Member of UdG Steering Committee for HRS4R
04/2019-08/2023
Founding Member and Vice-President Quantum-BioInorganic Chemistry (QBIC) Society
03/2012-05/2023
Member of UdG Claustre
05/2017-12/2022
Member Higher Education, Research and Culture in European Societies (HERCulES) group
09/2021-11/2021
Member Scientific Committee TAM meeting (HPC Europa3, H2020-INFRAIA-2016-1)
01/2018-09/2021
Member of UdG committee for Quality Control, and committee for International Policy
03/2016-07/2020
Member Management Board, Catalonian Research Network Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (XRQTC)
04/2014-10/2019
Member of Comité de Usuarios de la Red Española de Supercomputación (CURES)
11/2018-10/2019
Outgoing Chair Young Academy of Europe (YAE)
09/2016-10/2019
Board Member of the Young Academy of Europe (YAE)
03/2018-09/2019
External Scientific Advisory Board, Foster Open Science +
01/2017-11/2018
Chair of the Young Academy of Europe (YAE) and YAE representative at Academia Europaea Board of Trustees, and at Academia Europaea Communications Group
07/2015-12/2017
Member of UdG University Council, UdG Committee for Research and Doctorate Studies, UdG Committee for Personnel, UdG Committee for International Policy
03/2012-03/2014
Member of UdG Committee for Doctoral Programme in Chemistry

Membership academies and scientific societies


2020-now
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science
2019-now
2018-2025
Founding Member and Vice-President Grupo Especializado Química y Computación (GEQC) of Spanish Chemical Society (RSEQ)
2015-now
2011-now
Member Society of Bioinorganic Chemistry
2009-now
Member Spanish Chemical Society (RSEQ)
2008-now
Member Catalan Chemical Society (SCQ)
2017-2024
Member EuroScience
2018-2023
Founding Member and Vice-President Quantum-BioInorganic Chemistry (QBIC) Society
2006-2020
Member Research Network XRQTC
2014-2019
2015-2018
Member American Chemical Society

Outreach activities


Outreach
Outreach
Outreach
Outreach
02/2024
05/2023
A Pint of Science
Invited talk: "El ball del combustible humà"
03/2023
Visits by high schools to IQCC: INS Sagulla Blanes, INS de Celrà and Les Alzines
02/2023
Un dia en la #UdGRecerca: Popular science talk for high-schools in Catalonia, "I"m a Chemist..... (Sóc químic)", 4 schools, 140 pupils
09/2022
IQCC Challenge on "Density functional developments" with Prof John Perdew and Frederico Martins (IQCC)
12/2021
Visits by high schools to IQCC: INS Celrà
10/2021
Un dia en la #UdGRecerca: Popular science talk for high-schools in Catalonia, "I"m a Chemist..... (Sóc químic)", 22 schools, 700 pupils
06/2021
V Jornades d’Investigadors Predoctorals de la UdG
Invited lecture: "Open science"
02/2021
First QBtopIC on Spin states
(Session leader)
02/2021
Visits by high schools to IQCC: INS Salvador Espriu
11/2020
Un dia en la recerca a la UdG (Setmana de la Ciència): Popular science talk for high-schools in Catalonia, "I"m a Chemist..... (Sóc químic)", 9 schools, 390 pupils
11/2020-now
11/2018
Visit to INS Llagostera; (high-school, Girona), Dia de La ciència en primera persona 2018 program, "I'm a Chemist....."
11/2017
Visit to INS Ermessenda; (high-school, Girona), Dia de La ciència en primera persona 2017 program, "I"m a Chemist....."
11/2016
Visit to INS Santiago Sobrequés; (high-school, Girona), Dia de La ciència en primera persona 2016 program, "I"m a Chemist....."
2015-now
11/2015
Visit to INS Salvador Espriu - CRP del Gironès; (high-school, Girona), Dia de La ciència en primera persona 2015 program, "I"m a Chemist....."
2014-2015
01/2014
Matins de la Química, XI Edició
Popular science talk, "Sóc Químic....." (I'm a Chemist.....)
Facultat de Ciències, Univ. Girona
11/2013
Visit to Servei Educatiu de l'Alt Empordà (high-school, Girona), Dia de la ciencia a les escoles 2013 program, "I"m a Chemist....."
[photos] [class1] [class2]
05/2013
Host at Fira de la Ciència de Secundària de Química (visit by high-school students at Science Park of Univ. Girona),
[video]
03/2013
Invited popular science paper in Anales de Química, "Regioselectividad en fullerenos, una visión computacional", An. Quím 2013, 109, 11-19, [pdf]
11/2012
Visit to INS Vilablareix (high-school, Girona), La ciència en primera persona program, "I'm a Chemist....."
Plus interview by high-school students
05/2012
Talk at TEDxUdG: "I'm a Chemist....." [youtube]
The presentation is available on Slideshare
2011
Member of CatQuímica.Cat team, blog created for International Year of Chemistry
2009
Invited popular science paper in LifeSciencesLab, "Metales, disolventes, proteínas: la importancia del entorno químic", LifeSciencesLab 2009, 5, 50-53 []