Dr. Calvo has reached international recognition in the field of electrochemistry. He was elected Vice-president  of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) in 2009-2011, has published more than 180 peer reviewed papers in international scientific journals, h index  42 (Google Scholar), several international patents, and has supervised 20 PhD Theses. Dr. Calvo has received many prizes and recognitions, including: John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2000), Konex Medal  (2003), Funprecit Prize on Technology Development (2004), Fellow de la Royal Society of Chemistry, RSC (2006), Fellow of the International Society of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), Bernardo Houssay Award in Chemistry Química (2005),  National Award in Science, Ministry of Education and Science (Argentina 2005), Innovate award for “Nanocatalists”, (2008), Schumacher Award for 2012-2017 period on Physical Chemistry from the Argentine Society of chemistry (AQA), Bright Minds Challenge, Amsterdam. DSM-Accenture. (2017), Perfil Award in Science and Technology  2017.

Dr. Calvo is a Full Professor at Universidad de Buenos Aires, a Senior Research Fellow of CONICET, and Director of INQUIMAE INQUIMAE (UBA-CONICET). He has a Msc. of Chemistry at Universidad de Buenos Aires (1975) and a PhD in Chemistry from Universidad Nacional de La Plata (1979). From 1979 to 1982, Dr. Calvo was a postdoctoral Research Fellow at Imperial College London in the UK, and a Senior Research Associate at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland from 1983 to 1984.