EMILIO
MARTINEZ NUÑEZ

Full Professor of Physical Chemistry specializing in theoretical and computational chemical dynamics. He received his PhD working on trajectory methods and statistical rate theories, followed by postdoctoral research on the development of high-accuracy potential energy surfaces. He joined the University of Santiago de Compostela as a Ramón y Cajal researcher and was promoted to Full Professor in 2023. His research covers reaction dynamics, photodissociation, non-adiabatic dynamics, accelerated dynamics methods, and gas-phase and gas–surface processes. He has held visiting positions at several international institutions, delivered more than 35 invited lectures, and maintains broad national and international collaborations. He has co-supervised five PhD students, participated in 20 competitive research projects (≈2 M€ in funding), and contributes actively to scientific service. A recent major contribution is the development of AutoMeKin https://github.com/emartineznunez/AutoMeKin an automated framework for reaction-mechanism discovery with emerging applications in astrochemistry, catalysis, and biological systems.