Miguel Rubi

J. Miguel Rubí is a Professor of Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Barcelona. He completed his graduation in Physics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and obtained his PhD in Physics with Summa Cum Laude. Later, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Professor Peter Mazur at the University of Leiden. In his career, he has served as the Head of the Department, President of the Physics Programme of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, and Spanish Representative for EU Programmes. He has been the Director of the Sitges Conference on Statistical Physics since 1996. In 2003, he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize for his contributions to the theory of stochastic processes. In the same year, the University of Trondheim conferred upon him the Onsager Medal for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics. He was appointed as a CAS Fellow 2007/2008 by the Centre for Advanced Studies of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. In 2010, he received the ICREA Academia Prize from the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats. He has also been appointed as the Onsager Professor at the University of Trondheim, Sandoval Vallarta Professor at UAM, Marcos Moshinsky Professor at UNAM, and Professor at the Institute of Physics of San Luis Potosi in Mexico. In 2012 and 2013, he was a Visiting Professor at CETHIL-INSA, Lyon, and in 2014, he was a Visiting Professor at L'École Polytechnique, Paris. Professor Miguel Rubí was appointed as the Leverhulme Professor at Imperial College London in 2013-14. In 2016, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU awarded him the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa. In 2017, the Jagiellonian University awarded him the Plus Ratio Quam Vis Medal.