UMDO • Unit of Optoelectronic Materials and Devices.

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Biographies

Faculty

Prof. Dr. Martínez-Pastor
A Full Professor at the University of Valencia, he is the author/co-author of more than 120 research papers in different international journals and conference proceedings. Since 1996 he has or is supervising 12 PhD thesis, 12 masters/undergraduate projectse works all of them in the research field of quantum nanostructures and photonic/plasmonic structures. Since 1996, he has led 7 national projects, 4 bilateral integrated actions (France, Tunisia, Morocco), and participated in the European Network SANDIE. He is also an R&D consultant for InteNanoMat S.L.

Dr. José Luis Valdés Navarro
Recently retired as Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics (University of Valencia), he was Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics from 1997 to 2002. He collaborates with the UMDO group as founding member,president and director of the UMDO spin-off Intenanomat. During his academic career he participated in numerous research projects and published many articles in proceedings and national and international journals.

Staff

Dr Daniel Hill
As a senior research associate (Ph.D. Materials Science, University of Liverpool 1998) and having worked at Philips Semiconductors he joined UMDO from KTH in 2011 to lead the biosensors research line having previously done so elsewhere. He has worked on a total of 8 EC funded projects to date, including lead 3 EC biophotonics sensor projects, capturing two of them. He currently coordinates one of these, Positive. His interests are in SPM, polarimetry techniques, and new functionality for photonic devices particularly for biosensors. He is a member of the IOP, IEEE, a Chartered Physicist, has written and reviewed several scientific papers and regularly contributes to international conferences.

Dr Vladimir Chirvony
A senior research associate, his international experience includes the Institute of Physics (Minsk, Belarus), University Paris VI (France), Technical University of Valencia (Spain). He has a long experience in technology of fabrication of semiconductor nanoparticles by physical methods, nanoparticle surface modification and optical spectroscopy. He has published over 120 articles in peer review journals and international conference proceedings. He was a coordinator of Si-nanoparticles related EU FP6 Project PSY-NANO-Si (2005-2008) and particiapted in more than 20 other national/international projects.

Postdoctoral Associates

Isaac Suarez
Isaac Suárez (Telecommunications, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, 2002) received his PhD (Physical Sciences, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2006) under the supervision of Prof. Ginés Lifante on the subject of electrooptic modulators in LiNbO3:Zn waveguides. Thereafter, following a 7 month study of the modeling and fabrication of InP HEMT transistors at the Centro Astronómico de Yebes he spent two years in the laboratories of the LAAS-CNRS (Toulouse, France) developing GaAs VCSEL technology. In 2009 he joined UMDO to pursue his interests of fabrication and characterization of integrated photonic devices in semiconductors III-V and polymers.

Rafael Abargues López
MSc in chemistry (University of Valencia, 2000) and PhD in chemistry from the (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) for his thesis on electrically conducting polymer synthesis for electron beam lithography in collaboration with Infineon Technologies AG. He then joined the group as a postdoctoral fellow with an interest in new nanomaterials for photonic and plasmonic applications such as the synthesis and assembly of colloidal metallic and semiconducting nanoparticles, polymeric nanocomposites and conducting polymers with lithographic properties. At the end of 2009, he co-founded and is currently R&D manager of InteNanoMat S.L from where he collaborates with the UMDO group.

Pedro Rodriguez Canto
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Lorenzo Sanchis
Dr. Lorenzo Sanchis (Physics, Universitad de Valencia, 1998) received his PhD in Physics from the Autonomous University of Madrid in 2004. After a two years postdoc (2005 to 2007) at Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bristol University (U.K) he joined UMDO on a JAE-DOC (CSIC) contract. His experimental and theoretical research span a range of topics all involved with the inverse design of wave scattering structures concept. For example, genetic algorithm photonic crystal devices design and acoustic lens design and invisibility. He is also interested in photonic crystal microcavities design with single photon sources applicability.

Guillermo Muñoz Matutano
Post-Doc researcher in the field of single nanostructure spectroscopy. PhD in Physics at the UMDO group. His experimental research focuses on the fundamental study of single Quantum Dots and Quantum Wires as new candidates for optoelectronic devices. His interest covers techniques and concepts as single photon correlation, confocal microscopy, quantum molecules, Coulomb interaction in confined systems and Plasmonic devices. He is also interested in Science Popularization topics, being the author of some national and international initiatives.

PhD Students

Josep Canet Ferrer
Physics graduate and Master in Photonics from the University of Valencia. As an undergrad, he visited the KOMET333 group at the University of Mainz (Germany) approaching to Sputtering deposition technique and to the low temperature magneto-resistance measurements. He is currently close to submitting his PhD thesis in Applied Physics after 7 years of working with SEM, TEM, SNOM/AFM, Confocal Microscopy and confocal spectroscopy. In his spare time, he enjoys growing organic crops; reading about removable energies and environmental topics; and playing sports, especially jogging, swimming but also skiing and soccer.

David Rivas Gongora
Physics graduate (University of the Valle, Cali-Colombia) and Master in Photonics (University of Valencia). He is currently pursuing a PhD in applied physics as a member of the group UMDO at the Institute of materials science of the University of Valencia (ICMUV). He is focused on the study of quantum dots spectroscopy (PL, µPL, TRPL), but in his spare time he enjoys reading, martial arts and football.

Jesus Alvarez Alvarez
Degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Polytechnical University of Valencia (UPV), with final year project 'Design and Simulation of photonic sensors based on resonant rings'. Masters in Technology, Systems and Communication Networks (UPV) with the thesis 'Modeling and Assessing an Energy-Aware Power-Supply Wireless Sensor Nodes for the TUHH (Hamburg University of Technology)'.

Kamal Abderrafi
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Esteban Pedrueza Villalmanzo
Physics graduate (University of Valencia), he obtained his master degree in Advanced Physics in the specialty of Photonics, and is pursuing his Phd degree in material science at the UMDO. His general scientific interests are in the "nano-world", focusing on the interactions between semiconductor quantum dots and metallic nanoparticles and their possible applications in the fields of plasmon-enhanced spectroscopy, nanostructured multifunctional materials and photovoltaics, amongst others.

Raúl García Calzada
His research area is in laser ablation in organic liquids to obtain semiconductor nanoparticles

José Bosch Bailach
Diploma of Advanced Studies (DEA) with a thesis on 'the quantum confined Stark effect and electric field effects on the optical properties and photoluminescence of self-assembled quantum wells'. Current work for PhD thesis focuses on variational mathematical models for calculation the energy of excitons confined in rings, discs and spherical-shaped structures. The models account also for radiative recombination time. The latest models take into consideration the influence of a magnetic field and the presence of impurities.

Masters Students

Sandra Albert Sánchez
Chemistry (University of Valencia), as an undergrad, Sandra worked for six months in film deposition techniques applied to solar technology at the group of professor Dirk M. Guldi (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg). As a production and research chemist at Intenanomat S.L she collaborates with the UMDO group for the characterization of synthesized metal and semiconductor nanoparticles by TEM, SEM, FTIR, AFM, X-Ray Diffraction, optical measurements, Profilometry, Particle size determination.

Henry Gordillo
A physics graduate from Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia, where he undertook some research on tropospheric aerosols and Lidar systems. Masters student of Universidad de Valencia and member of the UMDO, where he is working on polymeric waveguides research. In his free time, he likes to play videogames; football (goalkeeper) and enjoys reading.

Mari-Luz Martínez Marco
She is studying for a Master's in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Molecular after having graduated in Chemistry (University of Valencia). After having worked on plasmonic nanostructures for sensing applications at Valencia Nanophotonic Technology Center she is currently working in metallic nanostructures at Intenanomat S.L whilst collaborating with the UMDO group. She is synthesizing and characterizing metal nanoparticles for different applications and is generally interested in researching plasmonic nanostructures with techniques such as SEM, FTIR,UV-VIS spectroscopy,AFM.

Visiting Students

Undergraduate Students

Victor Latorre Garrido
He is working on the final year project of his physics degree (University of Valencia) in the UMDO group and is interested to go on and do a Masters in Advanced Physics (Photonics) afterwards. He his interested in computers, sports and all things concerned to motoring (cars, motorbikes, karting…)

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