Francisco A. Macías
Curriculum Vitae
Francisco A. Macías was born in La Linea de la Concepción,
Cádiz, Spain on
September 18, 1956. His formal education includes a BS in Chemistry
from the University
of Seville, Spain (1978); an MS in Organic Chemistry from the University
of Seville (1979),
and a PhD in Chemistry (Organic Chemistry) from the University
of Cadiz (1984).
Dr. Macías has been Visiting Associate Professor at the
Department of Chemistry in Louisiana
State University, Baton Rouge during 1987,89,91,93,95 where he
establish a strong collaboration
program with Professor Nikolaus H. Fischer. Presently he is Associate
Professor of
Organic Chemistry at the University of Cadiz, Spain since 1987.
His primary responsibilities
are research (basic and applied) on Allelopathy since the Organic
Chemistry point of view
and teaching in the areas of Organic Chemistry, Ecological Organic
Chemistry and other related
subjects.
His research interest
are related with different aspects of Allelopathic Studies including
higher plants and microorganisms and involves studies on natural
and modified ecosystems and
developing of new methodologies for allelopathic studies including
mode of actions.
He headed the
"Cadiz Allelopathy Group" pioneer in Spain and Europe in Allelopathic Studies
since the Organic Chemistry viewpoint, with a multidisciplinary
structure. During this period,
his group has isolated, characterized and tested the bioactivity
of more than 300 allelochemicals,
within others two novel families of bioactive sesquiterpenes, Heliannanes
and Heliespiranes.
"If we know the way
that plants made possible their inter and intra specific relationship
within an specific ecosystem, we can mimic certain processes and
think in natural applications
as natural herbicides, natural insecticides, etc."
Dr. Macías has
directed (as major advisor) 25 MS and PhD students.
His publications exceed
80, with book chapters. He has presented over 30 invited lectures
at international meetings and over 40 invited lecturers at national
meetings and seminars.
He has presented invited
lecturers in several countries, including the United States, Canada,
Mexico, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Swiss, India and
Japan. He received the University
of Cadiz, Faculty of Sciences, Distinguished Faculty Fellow, 1992
, he has received the nomination
for the best paper of the year 1993 in Journal of Chemical Ecology.
Paper: J. D. Weidenhamer, F.A. Macías, N. H. Fischer and
G. B. Williamson,"Just, How Insoluble
Are Monoterpenes?" J. Chem. Ecol., 19, 1799-1807, 1993. Recently,
he has received the 1999
Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Award from Phytochemical Society of Europe.
He is President-elect of the
International Allelopathy Society since 1996 and was Vice-President
for Europe (1994-96) and the
President of the Organizing Committee of the First World Congress
on Allelopathy
(Cádiz, Spain, 1996).
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