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Luis Seijo, Professor.
Departamento de Química, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid (Spain).
Tel: +34-91498724 Fax: +34-914975238
ResearcherID: G-3872-2011
ORCID: 0000-0002-0621-3694
Education
1984-1986 Postdoc, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
1983 Ph.D., 1979 M.Sc., 1978 B.Sc. Universidad de Oviedo, Spain.
Positions
2007-Present Professor of Chemistry, 1987-2006 Associate Professor, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.
1979-1981 Teaching Assistant, 1982-1984 Lecturer, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain.
Visiting positions
2016 Visiting Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
2014 Visiting Researcher, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherland.
2004 Visiting Researcher, University of California in Berkeley, Berkeley, California.
2001 Invited Research Fellow, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
1999 Invited Associate Professor, Institute of Molecular Science, Okazaki, Japan.
Awards and honors
2016 Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
2014 and 2004 Salvador de Madariaga Fellow (Sabbatical Year).
1987 Pre-tenure fellow, 1985 Post-doctoral fellow, 1979 Pre-doctoral fellow, Spanish Education and Science Ministry.
1978 B. Sc. Chemistry Honors, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain.
Latest research projects
2018-2021 MAT2017-83553-P Electron and energy transfer processes in solid-state luminescence materials activated by multivalent lanthanides.
2015-2017 MAT2014-54395 Luminescence and energy transfer processes in mixed-valence lanthanide-based phosphors and scintillators with applications in white solid-state lighting and medical imaging. An ab initio approach.
2012-2014 MAT2011-24586 Ab initio studies on excited states of materials with f-elements: scintillators, phosphors, and nuclear fuels and wastes.
Latest publications (book chapters)
8. L. Seijo and Z. Barandiarán. Ab Initio Calculations on Excited States of Lanthanide Containing Materials, in Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths Vol. 50, edited by J.-C. Bünzli (Elsevier, 2016), pp. 65-89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.hpcre.2016.03.003.
7. Z. Barandiarán and L. Seijo. 4f, 5d, 6s, and impurity-trapped exciton states of lanthanides in solids, in Lanthanide and Actinide Computational Chemistry, edited by M. Dolg (John Wiley & Sons, 2015), pp. 217-240. ISBN: 978-1-118-68831-1. http://au.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118688317.html
Latest publications (articles)
128. Direct Evidence of Intervalence Charge Transfer States of Eu-doped Luminescent Materials.
Jonas J. Joos, Luis Seijo, and Zoila Barandiarán,
J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 10 (2019) 1581-1586.
127. The Complexity of the CaF2:Yb System: A Huge, Reversible, X-Ray Induced Valence Reduction.
C. MacKeen, F. Bridges, L. Seijo, Z. Barandiarán, M. Kozina, A. Mehta, M. F. Reid, and J.-P. R. Wells,
J. Phys. Chem. C, 121 (2017) 28435-28442.
126. Zoila Barandiarán, Marco Bettinelli, and Luis Seijo,
Color Control of Pr3+ Luminescence by Electron-Hole Recombination Energy Transfer in CaTiO3 and CaZrO2.
J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 8 (2017) 3095-3100.
125. Mathijs de Jong, Andries Meijerink, Luis Seijo, and Zoila Barandiarán,
Energy Level Structure and Multiple 4f125d1 Emission Bands for Tm2+ in Halide Perovskites: Theory and experiment.
J. Phys. Chem. C, 121 (2017) 10095-10101.
124. Rosa B. Hughes-Currie, Konstantin V. Ivanovskikh, Jon-Paul R. Wells, Michael F. Reid, Robert A. Gordon, Luis Seijo, and Zoila Barandiarán
X-ray Excitation Triggers Ytterbium Anomalous Emission in CaF2:Yb but Not in SrF2:Yb.
J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 8 (2017) 1175-1178.
123. Wiesław Stręk, Robert Tomala, Lukasz Marciniak, Mikolaj Lukaszewicz, Bartlomiej Cichy, Mariusz Stefanski, Dariusz Hreniak, Andrzej Kedziorski, Marek Krosnicki and Luis Seijo.
Broadband anti-Stokes white emission of Sr2CeO4 nanocrystals induced by IR laser irradiation.
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys, 18 (2016) 27921-27927.
122. Mathijs de Jong, Daniel Biner, Karl Krämer, Zoila Barandiarán, Luis Seijo, and Andries Meijerink.
New Insights in 4f12,5d1 Excited States of Tm2+ through Excited State Excitation Spectroscopy.
J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 7 (2016) 2730-2734.
121. Luis Seijo and Zoila Barandiarán.
Red shifts of the yellow emission of YAG:Ce3+ due to tetragonal fields induced by cationic substitutions.
RSC Adv., 6 (2016) 25741-25743.
120. Dagmara Kulesza, Joanna Cybinska, Luis Seijo, Zoila Barandiarán, and Eugeniusz Zych.
Anomalous Red and Infrared Luminescence of Ce3+ ions in SrS:Ce Sintered Ceramics.
J. Phys. Chem. C, 119 (2015) 27649.
119. Zoila Barandiarán and Luis Seijo.
Metal-to-metal charge transfer between dopant and host ions: Photoconductivity in Yb-doped CaF2 and SrF2 crystals.
J. Chem. Phys, 143 (2015) 144702.
118. Zoila Barandiarán, Andries Meijerink, and Luis Seijo.
Configuration coordinate energy level diagrams of intervalence and metal-to-metal charge transfer states of dopant pairs in solids.
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys, 17 (2015) 19874.
117. Mathijs de Jong, Luis Seijo, Andries Meijerink, and Freddy Rabouw.
Resolving the ambiguity in the relation between Stokes shift and Huang-Rhys parameter.
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys, 17 (2015) 16959.
Latest invited Lectures at International Conferences
44. 2020, to be held, Fuzhou, China, "8th International Symposium on Structure-Property Relationships in Solid State Materials (SPSSM-2020)", keynote lecture.
43. 2020, to be held, Montecatini Terme, Italy, "CIMTEC 2020 - 15th International Ceramics Congress & 9th Forum on New Materials".
42. 2019, Wroclaw, Poland, "8th International Symposium on Optical Materials (IS-OM8)". Invited lecture: Fine tuning the Cr3+ R1-line by controlling Pauli antisymmetry strength.
41. 2018, Igalo, Montenegro, "The 5th International Conference on the Physics of Optical Materials and Devices (ICOM2018)". Invited lecture: Multiconfigurational ab initio calculations on luminescence: Testing models and hypotheses.
40. 2018, Ekaterinburg, Russia, "XVII International Feofilov Symposium on Spectroscopy of Crystals Doped with Rare Earth and Transition Metal Ions (IFS2018)". Plenary lecture: Multiconfigurational ab initio calculations on luminescence.
39. 2018, Beijing, China, "4th International Workshop on Persistent and Photostimulable Phosphors (4PPP)". Keynote lecture: Ab initio calculations on the energy levels of lanthanide ions in solids: single-ion and intercalated electron transfer states.
38. 2017, Joao Pessoa, Brazil, "18th International Conference on Luminescence (ICL18)". Invited lecture: Intercalating Electron Transfer States Between the Energy Levels of a Single-Valent Lanthanide Ion: New Pathways for Energy Transfer.
37. 2017, Gdansk, Poland, "Phosphor Safari and the Sixth International Workshop on Advanced Spectroscopy and Optimcal Materials (PS-IWASOM)". Invited lecture: Control of Pr3+ Luminescence: Ab Initio Insight into How Electron Transfer Selects Greenish-Blue and Red Emissions.
36. 2016, Sapporo, Japan, “Rare Earths 2016 (RE2016)”. Invited lecture: Intervalence and metal-to-metal charge transfer in lanthanide doped materials.
Advisory (selected)
National Science Foundation, NSF, USA.
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, NOW, Netherlands.
Research Foundation Flanders, FWO, Belgium.
Agence Nationale de la Recherche, ANR, France.
Austrian Science Fundation FWF, Austria.
Agencia Nacional de Evaluación y Prospectiva, ANEP, Spain.
Referee
Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Physical Review B, Physical Review Letters, Optical Materials Express, Chemistry of Materials, Inorganic Chemistry, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Journal of Luminescence and 30 other journals.