Marcel Swart

Marcel Swart is a Full Professor and ICREA Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Girona (UdG), affiliated with the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (IQCC) and the Faculty of Science. He holds a PhD from the University of Groningen and completed postdoctoral research in Amsterdam. His research focuses on theoretical and computational chemistry, particularly transition-metal reactivity, catalysis, and spin-state effects in bioinorganic systems. He has led the IQCC as Director (2015–2023), served as Editor for Inorganica Chimica Acta, and pioneered software like the Amsterdam Modeling Suite (AMS) and MSXC system.

• Affiliations: IQCC, Department of Chemistry (UdG), and multiple editorial roles.
• Education: PhD in Theoretical Chemistry (Groningen, 2002), postdocs at University of Amsterdam.

Research interests include computational catalysis, metal-oxo intermediates, spin-state effects, and method development. His work bridges theory and experiment, with applications to energy and environmental chemistry. Key contributions include the MSXC computational framework and studies on high-valent iron and copper systems.

• Awards: Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2015), Member of Academia Europaea (2019), MGMS Silver Jubilee Prize (2012).

Swart has supervised numerous PhD students and collaborates globally on predictive computational chemistry for confined-space catalysis. His labs focus on open science practices, including reproducible data sharing and open-access publishing.