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Arturo López-Quintela
University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Emeritus Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC, Spain). Co-founder and Principal Scientific Advisor of the company NANOGAP (www.nanogap.es S’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre), founded in 2006 and dedicated to the production of nanomaterials and metal nanoclusters. In 2019 co-founder of Arjuna Therapeutics (www.arjunatherapeutics.com S’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre) to explore metal nanoclusters as a new class of treatment to address major problems in oncology. He has published more than 350 publications (h-index 61) and is co-author of 28 granted international patents. His research interests are the synthesis of “ligand-free” metal nanoclusters by soft chemical techniques and their applications in catalysis and therapeutics.