Fitxa persona

Between 1979 and 1989 I studied collisions of heavy ions at low energies, studying the dispersion and fusion of heavy ions. The experiments were carried out at the CRN in Strasbourg with the Tandem van de Graaf accelerator. My Doctoral Thesis was about this topic and I directed the doctoral thesis of Dr. Filomeno Sánchez, currently a Scientific Researcher at the CSIC. Between 1984 and 1987 I did a postdoctoral stay at the CRN in Strasbourg. I participated in the first projects funded by the CICYT that began in 1982. Previous research (1979-1982) was financed by funds from the Nuclear Energy Board, which became the current CIEMAT. In 1989 I became part of the TAPS collaboration whose purpose was the measurement of high-energy photons and neutral mesons produced in collisions of heavy ions at intermediate and relativistic energies. I obtained my first project as a principal investigator to participate in TAPS in 1990 as group leader at the University of Valencia. I carried out experiments with the different versions of the TAPS detector between 1989 and 2001, in the accelerators of GANIL (Caen), SIS (GSI Darmstadt), SPS (CERN), KVI (Groningen) and MAMI (Mainz). My main hardware contribution was building the TAPS VETO detectors. I supervised four doctoral theses in this period. One of the PhDs (Dr. Ginés Martínez) is currently director of the SUBATECH laboratory in Nantes, Dr. Ana Marín is a prominent member of the ALICE collaboration, with a permanent Senior Researcher position at GSI in Darmstadt. José Benlliure Anaya is a Research Professor at the CSIC and has been a professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Between 1996 and 2011 I participated in the construction of the GSI Darmstadt pinion factory for the HADES collaboration and was the spokesperson for the IFIC of Valencia in the HADES collaboration. In 2001 I obtained a positionProfessor at SUBATECH Nantes. The result of these experiments are the doctoral theses of Miguel Ardid Ramírez, professor at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Ms. Nadia Yahlali Haddou, full professor at the University of Valencia, Dr. Gustavo Conesa Balbastre, official researcher at the French CNRS and Dr. Alejandro Gil Ortiz, Senior Electronic Engineer at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg (Germany). In 2004 I obtained the Habilitation as a University Professor and in 2006 I obtained a position as Professor at the University of Valencia.

Between the years 2007-2022 I have developed xenon detectors dedicated to measuring double beta decay through photoluminescence and electroluminescence produced by charged particles and their associated instrumentation based on SiPM and photomultiplier tubes within the framework of the NEXT experiment, located at the Canfrac LSC.

Since 2016 I have worked on Environmental Radioactivity, at the LARAM Laboratory of the University of Valencia, of which I am currently Technical Director. Among the lines of research that I direct are measurements of radon in air and water, which have given rise to the Doctoral Thesis of Ms. Vanesa Delgado Belmar, currently a Senior Research Support Technician hired by the CSIC, the design and construction of tritium detectors in the water of nuclear power plants in real time, which has given rise to the doctoral thesis of Mr. Marcos Martínez Roig, currently a postdoctoral fellow at the CSIC, and methods of action in nuclear emergencies. which is the subject of Ms. Mireia Simeó Vinaixa's thesis.

I am responsible at the University of Valencia for the Interuniversity Master's Degree in Environmental Radiological Protection, recently implemented, and in which the LARAMplays a fundamental role. I direct an agreement with the Generalitat Valenciana on the Environmental Radiological Surveillance Program of the Cofrentes nuclear power plant, and the Radiological Surveillance Program in Emergencies.

I have supervised 11 doctoral theses and thirty theses, Master's Theses and TFG. I am the author of 182 peer-reviewed articles, have received a total of 3534 citations, and my H-index is 31