Avel·lí Corma Canós
Avel·lí Corma i Canós ForMemRS (born December 15, 1951; name in Catalan-Valencian, also Avelino in Spanish) is a Valencian (Spain) chemist distinguished for his world-leading work on heterogeneous catalysis.In 1979 he started working as a researcher at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, and in 1987 he was a full professor.He has worked on fundamental aspects of acid-base and redox catalysis with the aim of understanding the nature of the active sites and reaction mechanisms.[2] Over 20 of those patents have been applied industrially in commercial processes of cracking, desulfuration, isomerization, epoxidation, chemo selective oxidation of alcohols and chemoselective hydrogenations.Corma Canós was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (USA) in 2007 for contributions to the understanding of heterogeneous catalysis that led to numerous commercialized solid catalysts used worldwide.