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Javier
AIZPURUA
Researcher at the Center of Material Physics CSIC - UPV/EHU
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Juan
COLMENERO
Director of the Center of Material Physics CSIC - UPV/EHU
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Is a professor at the University of the Basque Country / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea. He was a guest professor at the IFF, Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany) and he has participated in a number of international scientific committees, the most noteworthy being the Institut Laue-Langevin (France) and the Jülich Centre for Neutron Science (Germany). He is a member of the Council of Editors of the Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics and Colloid and Polymer Science. In recognition of his work, he has been awarded a number of distinctions, the most salient being the Xabier María Munibe Award, the Award for Science and Technology (1998), granted by the Basque Parliament, the Euskadi (Basque Country) Award for Research into Science and Technology (2000) and the Medal of the Spanish Royal Society of Physics (2003).
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Fernando
COSSÍO
Professor at Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
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Fernando P. Cossío studied Chemical Science at the University of Zaragoza and went on to receive a PhD in 1986 at the UPV/EHU Basque University. He has spent post-doctoral fellowships at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS, in Talence (France) and at the University of California Los Angeles. He became an Associate Professor at the UPV/EHU Faculty of Chemistry in 1988 and a full Professor of this faculty in 2002. He has occupied a number of posts, such as the Dean of the Faculty of Chemical Sciences at the UPV/EHU (1999-2001), the vice-chancellor of Research and International Relations at the UPV/EHU (2001-2004), and Secretary of the Committee of Experimental Sciences of UNIQUAL (2007-2009), amongst others. He has been awarded the Spanish Society Award for Therapeutic Chemistry (1987), the Euskoiker Award for Experimental Sciences (2005), the Manuel Laborde Werlinden Award (2005), the Toribio Echevarria Award (2006) and the Dr. Antonio Esteve Foundation Award (2007). In 2009 he was appointed Chairman of the Ikerbasque Executive Committee.
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Pedro Miguel
ECHENIQUE
President of DIPC
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Was born in Isaba, Navarre (1950), and is Professor of Condensed Matter Physics at the University of the Basque Country, Chairman of the Donostia International Physics Centre (DIPC), Chairman of CIC Nanogune, Chairman of Jakiunde, Academy of Science, Arts & Letters, and Vice-chairman of the Basque Agency for Innovation, Innobasque.
He obtained his post-graduate studies (Ph.D.) at Cambridge in 1976 and in Barcelona in 1977. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate at Cambridge (Doctor in Sciences 1998) and was also made Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Valladolid (2000) and of the Public University of Navarre UPNA (2008). He is a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium, a Fellow of the American Physical Society (FAPS) and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (FAAAS). In 1988 he was elected Universal Basque of the Year.
He received the Xabier María de Munibe award (1995), Euskadi (Basque Country) Award for Research (1996), Prince of Viana Award for Culture (1997), Great Cross of Alfonso 10th the Wise (1998), Prince of Asturias Award for Scientific and Technical Research (1998), Max Planck Award for Physics (1998), Iberdrola Award for Science and Technology (2002) and Blas Cabrera National Award in Material and Earth Physical Science (2005). Furthermore, he was awarded a Gold Medal by the Spanish Royal Society of Physics (2003), by the University of the Basque Country (1990), by the City of San Sebastian (2000) and by the Province of Gipuzkoa (2006).
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Jose Maria
PITARKE
Director of nanoGUNE
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Prof. Pitarke studied Physics at the University of the Basque Country,
where he received his PhD degree (with distinction) in 1990 studying
some aspects of tunneling spectroscopy and electron and photon
emission in solids. After a postdoctoral stay at the Oak Ridge National
Laboratory (USA) in the group of Rufus Ritchie, he obtained, in 1993,
a permanent position at the University of the Basque Country, which
he combined with sabbatical semesters at various USA Universities
and the Imperial College of the University of London, UK. Since 2000,
he has been full professor of Condensed Matter Physics at the
University of the Basque Country. His research interests include
condensed matter theory, many-body interactions at solid surfaces
and nanostructures, dynamical response of solid materials,
nanophotonics, and the interaction of charged particles with
nanostructures. Prof. Pitarke is By-Fellow of the Churchill College of
the University of Cambridge since 2005. He is also the Director of the
Nanoscience Cooperative Research Center nanoGUNE since its
creation in 2006.
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