Prof. José Manuel Recio Muñiz
MALTA-Consolider Team
Departamento de Química Física y Analítica
Universidad de Oviedo
Julián Clavería 8, 33006, Oviedo, Spain
I was born in 1961 in Oviedo, Spain, studied chemistry and completed my Ph.D. thesis in 1990 on quantum mechanical modeling of perfect and defective metal halide and metal oxide solids under the supervision of Prof. L. Pueyo and Prof. V. Luaña at the University of Oviedo. During my post-doctoral period at the Michigan Technological University in Houghton (MI, USA) with Professors A. Barry Kunz and R. Pandey, I carried out theoretical studies on the progressive emergence of crystalline bonding and the size dependence of chemical properties of binary metal oxide and nitride clusters. In 1993, I received my habilitation at the University of Oviedo where I am leading a research line on high-pressure phenomena of materials. Later in 2010, I got the position of Professor of Chemical Physics. My main area of interest is Theoretical and Computational Chemistry of Materials with special attention to solid state chemistry, planetary interiors, materials science, solid-solid phase transitions, and developing models to interpret properties and behavior of compounds using quantum chemical formalisms. I enjoyed to be also a football (soccer) coach of children in regular regional leagues for more than ten years in this century.