the Tinença de Batlle de Urbanisme of the City Council of Palma in the legislature from 1987 to 1991. During four years, from 1995 to 1999, he directed the Department of Chemistry of the University of the Balearic Islands. In 1999, he was appointed General Director to create the General Secretary of the Research and Technological Development Plan (R&D) of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of the Government of the Balearic Islands. Finally, in 2001 he was appointed emeritus professor of the UIB. Work As a researcher, Antoni Roig has published more than fifty research projects, always in the field of Macromolecular Physical Chemistry. He has directed numerous doctoral theses and is the founder of an active macromolecular research group whose members are now distributed by the Complutense universities of Madrid, the Basque Country, Valencia, the UNED and Alcalá of Henares. He is the author, along with Mateo Díaz Peña, of two volumes of Physical Chemistry, edited by Alhambra-Longmans in 1972 with numerous reissues, a text for university teaching of wide use in both Spain and Latin America. References 1931 births 2019 deaths Spanish scientists Spanish municipal councillors University of Valencia alumni Complutense University of Madrid alumni Complutense University of Madrid Academic staff of the University of the Basque Country Academic staff of the Autonomous University of Barcelona Academic staff of the University of Alcalá People from Palma de Mallorca