Manuel YanezBiography of Manuel Yáñez

Manuel Yáñez got his B.Sc. in Chemistry (1st class honours) in 1970 at the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela in 1970 and his PhD (Special Prize to the best PhD. Thesis) at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 1973.H was postdoc with John Pople (Noble Laureate in 1998) from 1974 to 1976 at Carnegie-Mellon University. Back in Spain he got in 1979 a tenure as Associate Professor and in 1983 as Full Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He received several research awards, among them, the Award of the UAM Foundation in 1993, the Research award in Physical Chemistry of the Royal Spanish Society of Chemistry in 2001, the Bettancourt-Perronet Award from the Ministry of Education and Research of France in 2003 and the Award for a Distinguished Career from the Royal Spanish Society of Chemistry in 2018. He was appointed Academician of the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences (RACE) and was invested Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of the Basque Country. He was the Coordinator of a European Erasmus+ Master and of a European Joint Doctorate on Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling. He is author of more than 500 papers and several book chapters as well as having been a long-standing co-Editor in Chief of the successful Elsevier Journal, Computational and Theoretical Chemistry and Editor in Chief of Anales de Química of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ).