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Ballester Balaguer, Pablo
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ICREA Research Professor at ICIQ (Institut Català d'Investigació Química). Experimental Sciences & Mathematics
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Pablo Ballester was born in Palma de Mallorca in 1959. He studied Chemistry at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) where he graduated in 1982. From 1982 to 1986 he worked in the same university as a Predoctoral Fellow and after getting his PhD degree (Supervisor: Prof. Ramón Mestres Quadreny) he moved to Pittsburgh University as post-doctoral Associate with Prof. J. Rebek Jr. In 1998 and after a short post-doctoral stage at UIB he decided to return to the University of Pittsburgh. In 1989 he moved to MIT as a Postdoctoral Associate. From 1991 to 2002 he held the positions of Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at UIB and served as Secretary of the Chemistry Department, Vice-dean of the Faculty of Sciences and Head of Studies of Chemistry at UIB. In 2003 and while enjoying a sabbatical leave at the Scripps Research Institute (USA) with the rank of Associate Professor of Research he accepted a position as ICREA Professor and joined ICIQ as Group Leader in 2004.
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Research Interest
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My scientific background lies in the areas of organic chemistry (making molecules) and supramolecular chemistry (study the relationship between molecules). My research is mainly focused in the designing, synthesis (making) and study of functional molecular aggregates. I consider myself a mixture between a molecular architect and a molecular engineer. We study matter but we also produce matter and new materials. We work in trying to understand molecular self-assembly processes as a methodology to construct large and functional multimolecular assemblies (i.e. synthetic proteins). A second area of interest resides in the design and application of molecular containers. These are molecular structures that are sufficiently large to include or encapsulated other molecules. Unfortunately, although we make monumental and even artistic structures they are not visible to the naked eye due to their reduced nanometer size.
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ERC Codes
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Material science (chemistry related), Molecular architecture, Organic chemistry, Supramolecular chemistry, Synthesis (organic & inorganic)
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