Pilar González i Duarte
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Pilar González i Duarte | |
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| Born | 26 January 1945 Barcelona, Spain |
| Alma mater | Autonomous University of Barcelona |
| Awards | Jaume Vicens i Vives award (2004) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chemistry |
| Institutions | Autonomous University of Barcelona |
| Doctoral advisor | Enric Casassas i Simó |
Pilar González i Duarte (born 1945) is a Spanish chemist. She is a member of the Institute for Catalan Studies (IEC). In 2004, she was the recipient of the Jaume Vicens i Vives distinction awarded by the Government of Catalonia.
Pilar González i Duarte was born in Barcelona, 1945.[1] She studied chemistry at the University of Barcelona, where she graduated in 1967 with an Extraordinary Prize. She did a master's degree in chemistry at the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) with Enric Casassas i Simó, where she also obtained an Extraordinary Doctorate Award.[1]
Career and research
In 1990, González i Duarte became a professor at UAB, where she has held several senior positions. She focused her initial research on metal thiol compounds, using aliphatic mercaptans,[2] with results that have been of interest for industrial processes of petroleum hydrodesulfurization and in the field of bioinorganics, a field in which she has also carried out several investigations. She has collaborated with the Pergamon publishing house in the U.K. and has been a lecturer. Between 1995 and 2002, she was president of the Societat Catalana de Química (Catalan Society of Chemistry), from where she promoted a new updated version of the Periodic table in Catalan.[3] In 2000, she curated a traveling exhibition inaugurated at mNACTEC, with the title Tot és química (Everything is chemistry).[4]
- Inaugural session (2015–16) at the IEC
