which is to investigate what passion is
let’s try to link these two
terms
I’m going to show you other passions too
I have other conditions in my life
and this we are going to link it with the
Attitude to enjoy what is
does and develop as people
every day
I am an organic chemistry scientist
formation but throughout my life I
I have dedicated to very varied things inside
of my profession the passion all
we know what it is that passion is
an intense emotion we feel passion
for a person we can feel passion
for an activity for a painting by
a way of life and research is
discover something new and look for new
roads new solutions to problems if
we link passion and research and
investigate because he wants this to say that I
I have dedicated my life to enjoy and
grow as a person doing
research dedicating myself to science
being scientific
this was not to say premonitory it was
forging throughout my whole life
attitude is very important is not what
do something with hope because you
like and then you have fun and you can
dedicate all the hours of the day or the
night you can have physical exhaustion
but psychologically you enjoy that
when it drains you to a job that you do
that creates stress and that certainly does not
means that you feel passion for what
you are developing
I had a very strong passion and my
life from tiny and it is in the painting
I have always liked to draw I liked it
paint painted Nazi watercolor oil
Well in a little village you see a painting
that painted the municipality of cudillero
a small village surrounds
of mountains and I think the environment
family and the environment helped me
develop let’s say my future life to
create certain facilities or
attitudes
let’s say the world research
is creative
you have to be creative every day and in
painting I also went to a school
fenced in pravia and there I had the luck
to connect or have a teacher
very good chemistry that made me well
enjoy with chemistry already in that
then we had our little
pottery laboratory let’s go
we mixed things and I liked the
chemistry at that time I still
I did not know if I was going to do chemical
right fine arts was not very clear
my vocation
I finally decided because I liked it
chemical chemistry
I was lucky to find myself
with professor barluenga I did the
specialty of organic chemistry was
an enthusiastic person did then
awaken that interest to continue
let’s say on paper fundamentally
in the laboratory practices with what
that was chemistry is to say that I
I felt really motivated when I finished
in the faculty is a very hard moment
I think even harder than when
you start a career and now what to do
we all look at it because you have to
solve life economically
find a job the situation was
complicated and chasm just like in these
moments or otherwise exactly the same
very similar and then I almost do not know if
fortuitously link because I think that
there are moments in life that depends on
your attitude of your availability of your
empathy but there are times when you get
they open roads a door closes but
they open many others I did not know if I was going to
dedicate myself to doing clinical analysis
well to the teaching that has always
liked
I have a more home than
it was a cap course
to prepare me to teach in
secondary but agreed that I had the
possibility of doing my thesis in
that time what is an end job
of degree then in the national institute
of the coal of the superior council of
scientific investigations and I started to
fall in love with something as black as
coal , coal and waste
petroleum all derivative products
of coal
everyone has the image that they are
pollutants and as close as
you see in the thermal power stations the
breasts that are used to tar
the roads that is dirty well no
inside the coal inside the oil
inside that black stone there is a
incredible world of possibilities
notice that I started working in
more topics related to geology
I discovered that inside that black stone
when you looked at the microscope there was
some components that had different
colors that the microscope made
it would appear that from that stone
could be squeezed processes of
liquefaction and obtain a series of
liquid products that this one gets
gasoline from coal and can
combine the chemistry that had
learned in chemistry faculty
organic
let’s say with the study of a material and
his behavior to see how to improve
The use of this product
coal how to reduce pollution
how to optimize the production of
energy et cetera etcetera and in that
I was still painting the
painting was always my escape
I always relax in the moments more
tense and as Rachel said this morning
we all have ups and downs the painting from
then it was yoga for me as a person
and here I am with my colleagues in the
initial moments after having
been two years in England because a
me science allowed me to connect with
the world
I did not go let it be a person
totally different after having
been two years north of england
with scotland I was lucky to
find me as a very very person
enthusiastic
I met people from south africa japan and
establishes contacts that is to say
relate and you open and left Oviedo
and it was the first time the second time
I took a plane when I left
he spoke English he spoke French but
I can say is that in a month I was
speaking English but correctly I
could communicate is the power
the attitude the ability that one
develop when you really need it
and that picture that you see here that is not
He knows what is true because this is a
intrusion a heat focus on a layer
of coal that causes some
structures that I will not go in detail
liquid crystal type that then give
we can see some things in the microscope
as pretty as this is so of a
beige black stone that under the microscope
I will show more images can be
get the most beautiful colors and a
very important information of use
final
this is me at that time and we have
here to rosalind franklin that is a
scientific that is one of my favorites
because it contributed to the development of
adn although in did not receive the prize
nobel died at a very young age and also
he worked on issues related to
carbon structure
you see we have art in science these
They are black coke stones
carbon materials that polished and
views under certain conditions
under a microscope, we generate these
so beautiful colors and thanks to these
colors
We can use it for production
of materials that you use in
daily life and also in materials
high technology
when we talk about the materials of
carbon which are the ones that I use that
are with those who grown obtained to
from coal and oil
we all identify the army
the diamond the acrid diamond awakened
passions but even deaths to from
then it is a bad
since everyone wants the higher
size then have better
however the other material that is the
graphite that you have in the mines of
pencils euros is much more humble
and there were already who said my guardian or my boss
in england in the 80s that a
Although the diamond was the most
valuable the graphite was going to wake up
great expectations in the future and
you’ve all heard about graphene
the miraculous material that goes to
revolutionize the world because we do not get
from the graphite we can these
materials you have from the pens
to the structures of bicycles
together cameras in
quantity of utensils or products
that you use in daily life and
also what it is in high technology
in the aeronautical sector
all of this many of these components what
We sustain from derivatives of
coal and oil derivatives and that
they are not so polluting
those by-products we can revalue them
and we can get to high products
added value and now practically
to finish saying for ten
years then we are with the graphene that is
a miraculous material
I enjoy the people who worked
done, one of my scholars has been
with me all this time I say it is
my representative I arrived yesterday by the
night of madrid and ana today I had everything
prepared and assembled
apart from discovering to find new
things that the more advanced in a
product or one more investigation
questions that arise because you’re going
knowing more and better more thoroughly
there is still a lot of work for
do much to discover
I can tell you that I am older
personal enrichment
apart from the results that we have
obtained we have worked with companies
we have transferred technology has been the
people with whom I have lived
I think it’s very sad for a
scientist having all
knowledge and when he retires
the research group disappears
who accompanied him all his life
I of course of what something I am
proud is that if I stop working
tomorrow the group was still running
because there are very capable people and my environment
and that are also in different
places of the world is the have
contributed to the training of personnel
and have enjoyed it come
every morning to the lab and see people
with a tremendous joy that makes
reborn rediscover every day and in
instead of being raising now my
retirement
every time I’m getting into more issues
and newer because it ‘s a way that
they continue and to finish
tell you that this was one of the drawings
I did what I did
ana told me look for something current good
I have to tell you now what I’m
trying is to resume my activities
pictorial that I have been since the eighties
and so many without drawing and without painting and the
truth is that I’m throwing a lot of
less and that it’s never too late to do
new things and to recover say
that activity is creativity that one
can have and already to finish then
show you that wonderful material that
is graphene which is a layer of graphite
when you write with the pen
if you do it very softly that
it is almost transparent
you will have few layers of graphene
if you do it intensely
you would have many yes that is a
graphite integral foil that
see how many possibilities it has
has the incredible properties of
behavior resistance of
conductivity that finds applications
in worlds like energy the
electronic and it still remains as
I said a lot to discover
inside that medical material too
part of my life apart from direct thesis
doctorals work in the laboratory a
do management that the truth has never
boring then to disclose and this was one
of the recognitions that I appreciate
as well as those who are academics well
due to my implication disclosure in
transmit the knowledge acquired
and I want to finish by simply saying
if you push two to keep fighting
working that you can never say that
you know everything or everything is discovered
each discovery brings another new open
new doors and that still remains in
all the fields but in ours in
special a lot to do and a lot
discover and before finishing what is
my part so I think more or less
the time we go well
I want to show is what I told the
illusion and the joy of working with
young people and that if one day I’m not
they will continue and I hope that
not only those who are right now in
template but that my scholars have
the possibility of after having a
experience abroad that we can
recover them and rescue them to continue
between enriching us of what is
all your knowledge and all your
I do not leave you with a video of
laboratory is a mixture of chemistry
engineering materials
we are in a world of let’s say inter or
multidisciplinary people who work in
the group there are chemical engineers
chemical engineers from physical mines
that I do not forget the physicists and
of course there is a let’s say an environment
endearing and very collaborative and of
work side by side
with each other there are
I only have to thank you
attention many thanks
behind the
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