Group Leader: Professor Angel Rubio

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Director of the Theory Department of the Max Plank Institute for Structure and Dynamics of Matter at Hamburg

Distinguished Research Scientist, Simons Foundation's Flatiron Institute "Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ)"  New York

Distinguished professor at the Materials Science Department UPV /EHU, San Sebastián

External Scientific Member of the Fritz Haber Institute (FHI) der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin 

Vice-president for Scientific Development  ETSF - European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (2008-2014)

Professor Rubio has an excellent publication record: more than 300 publications with more than 33000 citations (Hirsch index 90) related to theory and modeling of electronic and structural properties in condensed matter and on developing novel theoretical tools to investigate the electronic response of solids, nanostructures, biomolecules and hybrid materials to external electromagnetic fields.  His research activity is internationally recognized and he has received numerous honours and awards. Among them are

• Fellow of the European Physical Society 2021 
• Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences 2020
• Max Born Medal and  Prize 2018 
• Medal of the Spanish Royal Physics Society, Madrid, December 2016
• Professor , University of Hamburg, (2016-)
• Elected Member of the Academia Europea 2016
• JSPS Invitation Fellow Program for Research in Japan, (Apr-2016)
• European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant (2016-2021) (QSpec-NewMat)
• Faculty member of the Wolfgang Pauli Centre, Hamburg (2015-)
• XV  Manuel Laborde Werlinden Prize   the best technology-based business initiative based on innovative ideas: “Materials Evolution" (2015)
• Premio Rey Jaime I de Investigación Básica  (2014)
• Foreign Associate member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (2014) (link)
• Miller Visiting Professor, University of California at Berkeley (August-September 2014)
• External Scientific Member of the Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, (Nov. 2011-to date) 
• European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant 2011-2016 (DYNamo)
• Distinguished Visiting Scientist, Fritz Haber Institute der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin (2009-2011)
• Fellow of the American Association for Advanced Science (AAAS) Physics Section (2010)
• American Physical Society "Outstanding Referee", 2009.
• Invited Professor (1ere Classe de Professeurs des Universites), Université Montpellier 2, France, 2007.
• XVI Dupont Prize in Nanotechnology, Dupont Spain, 2006.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, Humboldt Foundation, Germany, 2005.
• Fellow of the American Physical Society, Materials Science Division, 2004.
• Sir Allan Sewell Fellowship School of Science, Griffith University, Australia, 2004.
• Salvador de Madariaga Fellow, 2000-1.
• JSPS Invitation Fellow Program for Research in Japan, 2001.
• Fulbright Fellow, 1992-94.
• Royal Spanish Physical Society Prize "Jovenes Investigadores" Madrid, Spain. July, 1992.
• Honor Prize for the best Ph.D. Thesis in Physics, University of Valladolid, Spain, June 1992.
• 1st National Prize for Graduated in Physics, October 25, 1989.

Selected Professional and Synergetic Activities

Images

• Photos 1, 2, 3 , 4 , 5
• Photos press release DuPont Prize (Oviedo, 25th January 2007): [1] - [2]; and 20th anniversary of the Dupont prize [3] [4] (Oviedo, 8th February 2011)
• Photo, Berlin, 2005
• Photo with net, 2007 2011
• Photo with nanotube, 2007