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Fernando Flores Sintas

Emeritus ProfessorFirst-principles Atomistic Simulation Techniques
Module 5, Office 607, 6th floor Work Phone: +34 91 497 5043
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Biographical Info

  • Born, 19 February 1939, Cartagena, Spain.
  • Married: Araceli. 1 son; 3 daughters.
  • Engineer, Politechnic, Madrid, 1963.
  • Degree in Physics, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, 1966.
  • PhD Degree, Politechnic , Madrid , 1970.
  • Post Doctoral Fellow, Research Council, Madrid, 1970-76.
  • University of Lille, France, 1976.
  • Imperial College, London , 1977.
  • Full Professor in Teorical Condensed Matter Physics, Autonomous University of Madrid, from 1978.

Appointments

  • Emeritus Professor, 2009.
  • Full Professor, Madrid, 1978.
  • Visiting Professor, Oxford, UK, 1981.
  • Head of Department , Autonomous University, Madrid , 1981-1996 and 2001-04.
  • Head, Institute  of Materials Science , Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid , 1993-1996.
  • Head , Condensed Matter Group, Spanish Physical Society, 1981-85.
  • Board, Condensed Matter Group, European Physical Society, 1987-93.
  • Board, Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Science and Technology, 1997-2000.
  • Adjunct Professor, Waterloo University (Canada) 2002.

Honors and Awards

  • American Physical Society Fellowship, 1987.
  • Golden Medal of the Spanish Physical Society, 1991.
  • Iberdrola Prize,  1993.
  • Spanish National Prize of Physics “Blas Cabrera”, 2001.
  • Medal of the Spanish Association of Civil Engineers, 2004.
  • Semiconductor Surfaces, Interfaces and Nanostructures Prize, 2011.

Memberships

  • American Physical Society.
  • Spanish Physical Society.
  • Spanish Association of Civil Engineers.

Research Interests

  • Organic Materials.
  • NanoScience.
  • Many-body Theory.

Relevant/Recent Publications

  • Around 400 papers in international journals and condensed matter series.
  • Several books including: “Introduction to the Theory of Solid Surfaces” (Cambridge University Press), “Interaction of Charges and Particles with Solids and Surfaces” (Plenum).
  • Supervisor of 27 Ph.D. thesis.
  • Coordinator of more than 20 research projects.
  • H-index: 49.
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