Dr. Carlos Romero-Nieto
University of Castilla-La Mancha
Faculty of Pharmacy
Calle Almansa 14 – Edif. Bioincubadora,
02008, Albacete, Spain
C. Romero-Nieto Research Group
University of Heidelberg
Organisch-Chemisches Institut
Im Neuenheimer Feld 270, Room 270A
69129 Heidelberg
Research Experience
10/2022 - 12/2022 Visiting Professor, University of Berkeley (Host: Tilley’s group)
11/2019 Habilitation in Chemistry (Venia Legendi) from the University of Heidelberg
06/2013 - Present Independent Researcher / Group Leader.
02/2010 - 05/2013 Postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Dirk M. Guldi. Department of Chemie and Pharmazie,
Physical Chemistry, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
01/2008 - 12/2008 Predoctoral Stay with Prof. Thomas Baumgartner. Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary,
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Canada.
07/2007 - 08/2007 Predoctoral Stay with Prof. Thomas Baumgartner. Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary,
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Canada.
09/2005 - 01/2010 PhD fellow with Prof. Julián Rodríguez López and Prof. Sonia Merino Guijarro. Department of
Organic, Inorganic and Biochemistry, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
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Title: “Toward new dendrimeric dithienophosphole derivatives: synthesis and properties”.
Fellowships and Awards
08/2024 Award “Francisco de Mendoza”. Knights of the Order of Santiago
01/2024 Scientist Medal. International Association of Advanced Materials
08/2023 Award “Yugo Quijote”. Crisve Company
03/2023 Award for Young Researchers in Science. Regional Government, Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-
La Mancha
02/2023 ERC Consolidator. European Research Council
11/2021 IAAM Fellow. International Association of Advanced Materials
02/2020 Award for Young Researchers from the Spanish Royal Chemical Society of Castilla-La Mancha.
11/2018 National Award for Young Researchers from the Spanish Royal Chemical Society.
08/2017 Bernthsen-Stiftung.
07/2016 Hengstberger Award from the University of Heidelberg.
06/2013 Liebig Fellowship from the 'Fonds der Chemischen Industrie' (German Chemical Industry
Association).
04/2010 - 05/2013 Postdoctoral grant. Prof. Dirk M. Guldi’s Group, Physical Chemistry I, University of Erlangen-
Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.
12/2009 - 03/2010 Marie Curie fellowship. Marie Curie Actions - Research Fellowship Programme, EU.
01/2008 - 12/2008 Vicerrectorado de Profesorado’s grant for predoctoral stays. Univ. of Castilla-La Mancha
07/2007 - 08/2007 José Castillejo’s grant for predoctoral stays. University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
09/2005 - 01/2010 PhD fellowship. Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
01/2005 - 01/2005 Research collaboration grant for undergraduate students. Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La
Mancha, Spain
Affiliations and Functions
2021 to date Organizer of the UCLM - International Science Webinar Series. University of Castilla-La Mancha
2016 - 2018 Organizer of the Lieseberg Kolloquium (lecture series) with J. Ballman. University of Heidelberg
06/2025 Chair organizer of the “5th Spanish Workshop on Phosphorus Chemistry”. Spain
07/2024 Chair organizer of the “4th Spanish Workshop on Phosphorus Chemistry”. Spain
03/2023 Chair organizer of the “3rd Spanish Workshop on Phosphorus Chemistry” and “19th European Workshop
on Phosphorus Chemistry”. San Sebastian, Spain
06/2022 Chair organizer of the “2nd Spanish Workshop on Phosphorus Chemistry”. Spain
03/2021 Chair organizer of the “1st Spanish Workshop on Phosphorus Chemistry”. Spain
07/2017 Advisory Board of the “20th International Symposium on Organometallic Catalysis Directed
Towards Organic Synthesis” (OMCOS)
03/2017 Chair organizer of the “European Hengstberger Symposium New Horizons In Smart Materials.”
Heidelberg, Germany
Since 2025 Reviewer for European Journal of Organic Chemistry
Since 2025 Reviewer for Journal of American Chemical Society
Since 2025 Reviewer for RSC Advances
Since 2025 Reviewer for Science Advances
Since 2024 Reviewer for Advanced Functional Materials
Since 2023 Reviewer for Journal of American Chemical Society
Since 2022 Reviewer for Organic Chemistry Frontiers
Since 2022 Reviewer for Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie
Since 2021 Reviewer for Helvetica Chimica Acta
Since 2021 Reviewer for Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Since 2021 Reviewer for Journal of Organometallic Chemistry
Since 2021 Reviewer for Materials Today Chemistry
Since 2021 Reviewer for Chemical Communications
Since 2020 Reviewer for Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry
Since 2020 Reviewer for Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry
Since 2020 Reviewer for Materials Advances
Since 2020 Reviewer for Electronic Materials
Since 2020 Reviewer for ChemPlusChem
Since 2020 Reviewer for Dyes and Pigments
Since 2020 Reviewer for Organic Materials
Since 2019 Reviewer for Dalton Transactions
Since 2019 Reviewer for New Journal of Chemistry
Since 2019 Reviewer for Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis
Since 2019 Reviewer for Chemistry – an Asian Journal
Since 2019 Reviewer for Organic Letters
Since 2019 Reviewer for The Journal of Organic Chemistry
Since 2018 Reviewer for Chemical Science
Since 2018 Reviewer for ACS Applied Nano Materials
Since 2018 Reviewer for Chemistry Select
Since 2018 Reviewer for ACS applied Nano Materials
Since 2017 Reviewer for Chemistry - A European Journal
Since 2017 Reviewer for European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
Since 2017 Reviewer for Journal of Nanomaterials
Since 2017 Reviewer for Organometallics
Since 2017 Reviewer for Heteroatom Chemistry
Since 2016 Reviewer for Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Since 2016 Reviewer for European Journal of Organic Chemistry
Since 2013 Reviewer for Synlett
Since 2025 Preparer of Polish candidates for ERC funding
Since 2023 Preparer of Spanish candidates for ERC funding
Since 2022 Reviewer for the Spanish State Investigation Agency
2020 Reviewer for the Polish National Science Centre
2018 Reviewer for the University of Delft
2017 Reviewer for the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education
2017-2018 Reviewer for the University of Strasbourg
Since 2017 Organizer and presenter of the scientific shows for schools and high schools: “The density in life” and
“The light makes the color”
- CEIP Carmen Arias, Socuéllamos (x3)
- CEIP Gerardo Martínez, Socuéllamos
- IES Fernando de Mena, Socuéllamos (x2)
- IES Alto de los Molinos, Albacete
- IES Río Cabriel, Villamalea
- IES Cañada de la Encina, Iniesta
- CEIP Cristóbal Valera, Albacete
- CEIP Antonio Machado, Albacete
Since 2015 Member of the German Chemical Society (GDCh).
Since 2005 Member of the “Real Sociedad Española de Química” (Royal Spanish Chemical Society).
Seminars at Universities
05/2025 University of Tübingen, Germany.
05/2025 Wiley, Weinheim, Germany.
08/2024 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, US.
08/2024 Rutgers University, Newark, US.
08/2024 Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT, Cambridge, US.
07/2024 Institute of Molecular Science, ICMol, Valencia, Spain
11/2022 University of California, Berkeley, US.
12/2020 University of Erlangen, Germany.
06/2020 International P-Chemistry Webinar Series.
06/2020 University of Cambridge, UK. NanoGe webinar.
06/2019 University of Ryerson, Canada.
06/2019 University of McMaster, Canada.
06/2019 University of York, Canada.
12/2018 University of Auckland, New Zealand.
12/2018 University of Tohoku, Japan.
12/2018 Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan.
12/2018 Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.
12/2018 University of Osaka, Japan.
12/2018 University of Kyoto, Japan.
12/2018 University of Nagoya, Japan.
05/2018 University of Kaiserslautern, Germany.
12/2017 University of Würzburg, Germany.
11/2017 University of Bialystok, Poland.
06/2017 University of Victoria, Canada.
06/2017 University of Alberta, Canada.
06/2017 University of Calgary, Canada.
02/2017 University of Hamburg, Germany.
01/2017 University of Ulm, Germany.
12/2016 University of Alcalá de Henares, Spain.
06/2016 University of Erlangen, Germany.
02/2016 Imperial College, UK.
12/2015 University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
12/2015 Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain.
Past and upcoming events
02/2026 “European School on Molecular Nanoscience”. Sitges, Spain.
12/2025 “International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies 2025”. Honolulu, US
11/2025 “4th Conference on Advanced Materials in Spain”. Barcelona, Spain.
11/2025 “2nd International Conference on Materials Science & Engineering”. Barcelona, Spain.
07/2025 “1st Conference on Cancer Research: Humanizing from the Laboratory”. Albacete, Spain.
07/2025 “XL Biennial meeting of RSEQ”. Bilbao, Spain.
07/2025 “Inclusive Leadership in Chemistry and Beyond (Webinar)”. International Younger Chemists Network.
06/2025 “25th Anniversary of the Institute ICMOL”. Valencia, Spain.
05/2025 “European School on Molecular Nanoscience”. Santa Pola, Spain.
05/2025 “5th Spanish Workshop on Phosphorus Chemistry”. Spain.
05/2025 “Unite Glioblastoma Conference”. Heidelberg, Germany.
04/2025 “TreatBrain Workshop”. Heidelberg, Germany.
03/2025 “International Symposium Interplay of p-Block and Organometallic Chemistry"”. Murcia, Spain.
03/2025 “2nd European School on Advanced Materials”. Almagro, Spain.
02/2025 “21st European Workshop on Pnictogen Chemistry”. Innsbruck, Austria.
11/2024 “VIII National Congress of Entrepreneurial Scientists”. Madrid, Spain.
11/2024 “XX Symposium of Young Chemical Researchers of The Royal Spanish Society of Chemistry”. Ciudad Real, Spain.
11/2024 “I Knowledge Transfer Fair of Castilla-La Mancha”. Albacete, Spain.
08/2024 “20th International Symposium on Novel Aromatic Compounds”. Toronto, Canada.
07/2024 “4th Spanish Workshop on Phosphorus Chemistry”. Spain.
06/2024 “Jaume I Awards”. Valencia, Spain.
06/2024 “VI Chemistry Education and Training Day”. Toledo, Spain.
06/2024 “XVIII Young Science Symposium”. Ciudad Real, Spain.
05/2024 “European School on Molecular Nanoscience”. Cuenca, Spain.
05/2024 “XV International School on Organometallic Chemistry, Marcial Moreno Mañas”. Alicante, Spain.
05/2024 “PhD Workshop”. Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain.
03/2024 “XIX National School of Molecular Materials”. Almuñecar, Spain.
03/2024 “20th European Workshop on Phosphorus Chemistry”. Würzburg, Germany.
12/2023 “13th Early Stage Researchers Workshop in Nanoscience”. IMDEA, Madrid, Spain.
10/2023 “1th European School on Advanced Materials”. Gandía, Spain.
10/2023 “1th Agri-food chemistry conference”. Alcalá del Júcar, Spain.
06/2023 “XXXIX Biennial meeting of RSEQ”. Zaragoza, Spain.
05/2023 “European School on Molecular Nanoscience”. Madrid, Spain.
03/2023 “19th European Workshop on Phosphorus Chemistry”. San Sebastian, Spain.
03/2023 “Spring Meeting of the German Phosphorus Chemistry Working Group ”. Dresden, Germany.
03/2023 “International Symposium Interplay of p-Blocks and Organometallic Chemistry”. Murcia, Spain.
09/2022 “18th European Workshop on Phosphorus Chemistry”. Rostock, Germany.
08/2022 “ACS Fall Meeting”. Chicago, EEUU.
07/2022 “19th International Symposium on Novel Aromatic Compounds”. Warsaw. Poland.
06/2022 “XXXVIII Biennial meeting of the Spanish Royal Chemical Society”. Granada. Spain.
03/2022 “XVIII National School of Molecular Materials”. Santiago de Compostela. Spain.
11/2021 (Online) “Advanced Nanomaterials Congress”. Sweden.
09/2021 (Online) “Organic pi-Electron Molecules and Materials Meetings, OpiEM3”. University of Oregon, EEUU.
03/2021 (Online) “1st Spanish Workshop on Phosphorus Chemistry”. Spain.
02/2021 (Online) “1st SupraMat Network Conference”. Spain.
06/2020 (Online) NanoGe: Light emission in organic and hybrid materials – from photophysics to efficient devices.
University of Cambridge, UK.
06/2020 (Online) International P-Chemistry Webinar Series.
04/2020 “17th European Workshop on Phosphorus Chemistry”. Rennes, France.
07/2019 “20th IUPAC International Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry Directed Towards Organic Synthesis”.
Heidelberg, Germany.
06/2019 “CCCE2019 International Conference of Chemistry and Exhibition”. Quebec City, Canada.
04/2019 “16th European Workshop on Phosphorus Chemistry”. Bristol, UK.
08/2018 “7th EuCheMS Chemistry Congress”. Liverpool, UK.
03/2018 “15th European Workshop on Phosphorus Chemistry”. Uppsala, Sweden.
03/2018 “Chemiedozententagung 2018”. Jena Germany.
06/2017 “12th International Conference of Heteroatom Chemistry, ICHAC-12”. Vancouver, Canada.
05/2017 “Steinheimer Gespräche des FCI 2017”. Wiesbaden, Germany.
03/2017 “European Hengstberger Symposium New Horizons In Smart Materials”. Heidelberg, Germany
03/2017 “14th European Workshop on Phosphorus Chemistry”. Cluj Napoca, Rumania.
03/2017 “Chemiedozententagung 2017”. Marburg, Germany.
10/2016 “HEika Symposium Energie der Zukunft”. Karlsruhe, Germany.
09/2016 “German EIT Health Annual Symposium”. Heidelberg, Germany.
09/2016 “6th EuCheMS Chemistry Congress”. Sevilla, Spain.
03/2016 “13th European Workshop on Phosphorus Chemistry”. Berlin, Germany.
03/2016 “Chemiedozententagung 2016”. Heidelberg, Germany.
12/2015 First evaluation of the Habilitation.
11/2015 “XII Symposium of Young Researchers Sigma-Aldrich”. Barcelona, Spain.
10/2015 “3nd Symposium on Synthetic Carbon Allotropes”. Erlangen, Germany.
07/2015 “14th International symposium on inorganic ring systems”. Regensburg, Germany.
07/2015 “16th International symposium on novel aromatic compounds”. Madrid, Spain.
06/2015 “Heidelberg Forum of Molecular Catalysis (HFMC 2015)”. Heidelberg, Germany.
06/2014 “Steinheimer Gespräche des FCI 2014”, Bad Homburg, Germany.
12/2013 “2nd International Congress, Next Generation Solar Energy: From Fundamentals to Applications”. Erlangen.
09/2013 “2nd Symposium on Synthetic Carbon Allotropes”. Erlangen, Germany.
06/2013 “Steinheimer Gespräche des FCI 2013”. Bad Homburg, Germany.
06/2013 “Symposium on Flexible Electronics”. Erlangen, Germany.
12/2011 “International Conference, Next Generation Solar Energy - From Fundamentals to Applications”. Erlangen, Germany.
09/2011 “1st International Conference on BioInspired Materials for Solar Energy Utilization (BIOSOL)”. Chania, Crete, Grece.
05/2011 “Solar Fuels: Light Capture and Electron Flow”. Prague, Czech Republic.
11/2010 “International Symposium the Chemistry of Synthetic Carbon Allotropes”. Erlangen, Germany
07/2009 “9th International Conference on Heteroatom Chemistry”. Oviedo, Spain.
07/2009 “X Escuela Nacional de Materiales Moleculares, (X National School of Molecular Materials)”. Elche, Spain.
02/2009 “II Encuentro de Dendrímeros y nanociencia (EDEN II), (II Meeting on Dendrimers and Nanoscience)”. Barcelona.
07/2008 “8th International Symposium on Functional π-Electron Systems (Fπ8)”. Graz, Austria.
05/2008 “91st Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition”. Edmonton, Canada.
11/2007 “IV Symposium of Young Researchers RSEQ-SIGMA-ALDRICH”. Burgos, Spain.
05/2007 “VIII Escuela Nacional de Materiales Moleculares, (VIII National School of Molecular Materials)”. Estepona, Spain.
01/2007 “I Workshop on Hierarchical Materials for Nanophotonics (MAJNAF-07)”. Ciudad Real, Spain.
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