Personal details and web pages:
Full Name: Miguel Angel García Aranda
Date and place of birth: February-8th, 1966, Málaga
Phone: Int-34-952131992 Email: g_aranda@uma.es
https://sites.google.com/view/miguel-ag-aranda/home
https://sites.google.com/view/cementscience-uma
http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=34568017300
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Miguel_Aranda
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=okjc0EwAAAAJ
https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/58535
https://research.com/u/miguel-a-g-aranda
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7708-3578
Current working address: University of Malaga, Inorganic Chemistry Department
Facultad de Ciencias, Campus de Teatinos,
Bulevar Louis Pasteur, 31, 29010 - Málaga Spain.
36°42'56''N 4°28'09''O
Employment:
Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at University of Malaga since June-2011
Past positions:
1. Scientific Director of Spanish synchrotron ALBA (2013/01/01 to 2019/02/28, with a secondment of University of Malaga)
2. Associate Professor (1999-2011)
3. Assistant Professor (1994-1999)
Education degrees:
1992: D. Phil. in Chemistry; University of Málaga
1988: B.A. in Chemistry; University of Málaga
Pre-doctoral experience: Chemical Crystallography Laboratory, University of Oxford, U.K. (1989-1991). 7 months, during three summer research stays.
Post-doctoral experience: Chemistry department, University of Cambridge, U.K. (1992-1993). 15 months
Current European Grants:
Recipient of “Advanced Grant” 2023-call “European Research Council”. Title: ‘In situ imaging of low-carbon CEMent hydration with SYNchrotron X-rays’. Acronym: syn4cem. Amount: 2.49 M€. GA: 101139298. Dates: 2025/01/01-2029/12/31. https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101139298
General coordinator and UMA PI of a “Pathfinder Challenges” call-2024 of “European Innovation Council”. Title: ‘Real-time X-ray diffraction and microstructure imaging: accelerating the transformation of cementitious materials into CO2 sinks’. Acronym: X-SeeO2. Amount: 4.043 M€ (1.402 M€ UMA). GA: 101220926. Partners: UMA, UoB (RU), UoM (RU), ESRF (France). Dates 2025/10/01-2029/09/30. https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101220926
PI-Host de MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024, Title: "Maximising value of construction Waste and CO2 capture for low-carbon CEMent: In situ hydration imaging with SYNchrotron X-ray". Acronym: Syn4WCO2-Cem, GA: 101202731, https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101202731
Research metric summary (2025/08/04):
...........................................No. documents....No. citations.......................Hirsch-Index......Platinum H-index-----(H/CL=35)×(Ct/At)
Web-of-Science .....................258......................12635..........................................64.............................89.6...........................................1.83×48.976
Scopus..........................................268.......................13582..........................................65.............................94.3............................................1.86×50.68
Google scholar........................465.......................17545..........................................73.............................78.8...........................................2.09×37.73
6 'Sexenios-investigación': 1989-1994; 1995-2000; 2001-2006; 2007-2012; 2013-2018. next evaluation: December-2030
1 'Sexenio-transferencia': 2008-2013. next evaluation:: ??
7 'Quinquenios' 1989-1993; 1994-1998; 1999-2003; 2004-2008; 2009-2013; 2014-2018. Next evaluation: December-2028.
5 'Tramos autonómicos'. No more tranches are currently allowed.
Working methodology: kaizen & 'work smarter not harder'
'Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought' (Albert Szent-Gyorgyi)