Emeritus Professors

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.