Rodolfo Miranda

Prof. Rodolfo Miranda completed his doctoral thesis at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) in 1981. After a postdoctoral stay in Germany as a Humbolt Fellow, under the supervision of Prof. Gerhard Ertl, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2007, he was appointed as Full Professor of Condensed Matter Physics at the UAM in March of 1990. Since 2007, he has been the Director of the Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies in Nanoscience (IMDEA-Nanociencia), which received the Center of Excellence Center Award “Severo Ochoa” in 2017. Prof. Miranda has published more than 300 scientific articles and more than 20 book chapters; his works have been cited more than 12000 times, having an h index of 62, and he has 6 international patents.
He has supervised 30 Doctoral Thesis and 20 postdoctoral researchers. He has given more than 140 invited presentations in International conferences. He is the leadscientist in more than 45 competitive projects; Chair of the European Research Council PE4 panel; and Fellow of the American Physical Society since 2007. Prof. Miranda has been the director of the UAM Surface Laboratory for more than 30 years, creating a school that has spread Surface Physics in our country through more than 50disciples and collaborators.
His current scientific interests go from the development of new microscopes with atomic resolution for the study of the physics of two-dimensional systems and quantic materials, to the molecular self-organization on surfaces, the use of magnetic nanoparticles to selectively remove cancerous cells, and epitaxial graphene properties.