Chemist from Lausanne University, Master in environmental chemistry from Geneva University, PhD in bio-inspired synthesis of natural substances from Neuchâtel University, Two Post PhDs: 1- electrochemistry and 2-biological engineering from EPFL.

-  Taught and led a research group during 30 years at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) the word 10th institute in chemistry  https://www.topuniversities.com/university-subject-rankings/chemistry
Important milestones

Ø  Participated in twenty international projects in 4 continents including 8 from European Union

Ø  Supervised of 44 PhD & post PhD and 180 Master plus invited Ph D students training 

Ø  Did 295  peer reviewed publications in Scopus and 21 book chapters

Ø  The average IF of journals in which his papers were published between 2018 and 2024 is 15  

Ø  His H index of 77 and 20'742 citations in Scopus and 88 and 27’600 citations in Scholar Google

Ø  https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=fr&user=pwynQrEAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

Ø  Has several seminal papers and is the 1st to 4th world most cited author in his research fields

Ø Did a hundred of plenary and key conferences in congress and other frameworks

Ø Was member of the scientific committee of the most important conferences of AOPs

Ø Was member of of the scientific committee of two European doctoral school in his field 

Ø  Contributed to the development of two patents and two startups

Ø  Led during 25 years a cooperation between EPFL and several Colombian universities 

Ø  Did 103 papers with Colombian pairs including the 1st - 2th Colombian publications in his field

Ø  Is international expert for the evaluation of Ph. D. thesis, projects and research teams

Ø  Taught during 10 years and supervised two Ph D and 8 Master students in 2IE Burkina Faso

Ø  Represented Switzerland in the European Association of Photocatalysis

Ø  Is co-funder of “Asociacion Colombiana de Investigadores en Suiza” (ACIS)

Main awards 

-  Applied Catalysis B (IF: 22.1) the first of 228 journals in his field devoted in 2020 a special issue on his honor as he was at that moment the 4th most published author in in this 1rst ranked journal of his domain
https://actu.epfl.ch/news/a-special-issue-of-applied-catalysis-b-in-honor--2/

 - Emeritus Professor from EPFL
-  Honorary Member of the Colombian Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences
-  Most important Colombian National Awards in Sciences in 2022 (Vida y Obra)
- Awards for his Distinguished Career from Ibero- American Congress of Advanced Oxidation Processes
- Gran Cruz del Valle from Valle University
- Dr Honoris Causa from Caldas University 
- Gold Book from Valencia University,
- Awards for his Distinguished Career from  European Doctoral School onf Advanced Oxidation Processes
- Honorary Member of the Colombian Congress of AOPs

- For the Impact of my research: select Field-Specific Ranking then Chemical Ingineering in  :

https://www.adscientificindex.com/scientist/cesar-pulgarin/1134734