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Distinguished Researcher at the Materials Science Institue of Madrid (ICMM-CSIC). Doctor in Chemistry (2005), Dr. Europeus, in the Material Science and Technology programme of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). Expert in the gas-phase synthesis of nanoparticles, fabrication and characterization of low-dimensional systems.

My main line of research is the manufacture and characterization of low dimensional materials, from fundamental studies to applied research, carrying out an important work of technology transfer. Starting from fundamental studies on the manufacture of magnetic and magnetoplasmonic nanostructures (mainly Co-based systems), the need for more precise tools in the manufacture and characterization of nanostructured materials marked the evolution of my career. I made three relevant technological developments to improve these techniques and, therefore, the quality of my research. The three of them are licensed patents (I am a co-inventor of 2 additional patents). One of them is a new ultra-high vacuum (UHV) nanoparticle (NP) manufacturing device called the Multiple Ion Cluster Source (MICS). With this new device it is possible to manufacture in one step: nanoparticles of one element, alloyed with two or three elements, with controlled stoichiometry and type core-shell, choosing the element that forms the core and the shell. Its unique capabilities allow the fabrication of NPs that have not previously been synthesized by other methods, offering new perspectives for fundamental studies in advanced low dimensional materials. The other licensed patent led to the creation of a spin-off called Next-Tip S.L., of which I am a co-founder and where I have been working under a Torres Quevedo contract (2013-2015) to actively carry out the necessary technology transfer. In 2015, I returned to ICMM to work on the European ERC Synergy Grant NANOCOSMOS project, as I was asked to join the team to design, assemble, test, calibrate a scaled-up MICS. The third relevant patent involves the stable manufacturing of nanoparticles overtime using UHV gas phase techniques. This patent is licensed to Nanostine S.L., the other spin-off of which I am a co-founder (2020).