CV Summary – José Ignacio Martínez

Summary

Tenured CSIC Scientist at the ICMM-CSIC (Madrid) since 2020. Bachelor in Physics at University of Valladolid (UVA), 2002. PhD summa cum laude in Physics (J. A. Alonso’s group: catalytic, mechanical and photoresponse properties of small metal and organometallic clusters) at UVA, 2007. Post-doctoral positions in prestigious Research Groups of Catalysis and Surface Science: FP7 post-doc at CAMD-DTU (Denmark), 2007-2009 (J. K. Norskov’s group: stability and catalytic properties of inexpensive catalysts); FP7 and JdC post-docs at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), 2009-2013 (F. Flores’ group: organic/inorganic interfaces). CSIC-JaeDOC scientist (2013-2015) at the ICMM-CSIC (Madrid) carrying out first-principles simulations of low-dimensional systems to guide Surface Science experiments. Afterwards, I held a contracted scientist FC3 position associated to the ERC-Synergy NANOCOSMOS Project (15M€) at ICMM-CSIC, devoted to the first-principles-based simulation of the interaction of small nanoparticles with gas at the circumstellar environment. Ramón y Cajal fellowship (2017-2020) in the area of «Physics and Space Science» at ICMM/CSIC. Throughout my research career, I’ve taken an interdisciplinary approach, combining chemistry, physics, and computational science to guide material science experimentalists efficiently. My research interests encompass three main branches. The first involves the «Theory and First-principles Simulation of Low-dimensional Functional Materials,» focusing on developing theoretical tools, characterizing properties, and applying first-principles frameworks to various fields. The second branch is the «In-silico Design and Characterization of Novel Low-dimensional Functional Materials and Processes,» covering diverse areas such as functionalization of graphene, TMDCs nanostructures, on-surface-driven formation of organic nanostructures, and advanced functional nanostructured catalysts. Finally, my overarching goal is «Developing Simple and Predictive First-principles-based Descriptors Across Dimensionality of Materials» to correlate different material properties.

Bibliometric Indicators. (ResearcherID: H-2645-2012 / Scopus Author ID: 27667815700 / ORCID: 0000-0002-2086-8603) I authorized >180 JCR articles (first/last and corresponding author in >50%) in the most relevant scientific journals of the field (>85% in Q1/ > 35% in D1), which have attracted > 9500(WoS)/12000(Google Scholar) citations, 20 artistic journal covers, 6 book chapters (one in a CRC Handbook of Nanophysics). Academic Honors and Awards. 2007: Extraordinary phD thesis award (UVA), 2015: Ramón y Cajal Fellowship (Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology). 3 six-year term periods (2003-2020) of research (sexenios) and 4 CSIC five-year term periods (2003-2018) of excellence (quinquenios).

Activity as supervisor. 2 TFG, 2TFM and 2 PhD students (running), 1 Postdoc.

Teaching. over 60 ECTS (~500 teaching hours validated by the ANECA) in courses of Physics and Chem. Eng. Degrees. Invited to teach a number of national and international master classes and post-degree courses (CNRS Nanotechnology Master Program, “Fronteras en Ciencia de Materiales”). Ad-honorem Professor at UAM since 2013; and accredited Professor (Assistant, Contracted and Private University Professor) by Spanish ANECA.

Memberships of scientific societies and evaluation committees. Member of two specialized groups (GEFES and GEFAM) of the Spanish Royal Society of Physics (RSEF). Member of ASEVA. Experts panel of different scientific national agencies: ANEP and AEI (Spain), FWF (Austria) and ANPCyT (Argentina). Member of the scientific committee of the “European Workshop on Epitaxial Graphene and 2D Materials”. Frequent referee for the most prestigious scientific editorials (Nature PG, APS, ACS, RSC, Wiley, IOP, Elsevier).

Thesis examiner. 4 (Spain).

Collaborations. A wide network of national and international collaborations: F. Zamora’s (UAM/Spain: 2D Coordination-polymers), M. Gottfried’s (University of Marburg/Germany: Organic-oxide Interfaces), M.T.M Koper’s (Leiden University/The Netherlands: Theoretical Electrochemistry), R.A. Bartynski’s (University of New Jersey: Organometallic Interfaces), A. Zak’s (HIT/Israel: Layered Materials: Hydrogen Storage), R. Fasel’s (EMPA/Switzerland: On-surface Chemistry). J. Coraux (Neel Inst./France), among many others.

Participation in R&D+i projects. Participation and leading >25 R&D+i international, national and regional projects, including 3 FP7 and 1 ERC-Synergy (>15M€) European projects. In 2017, I coordinated my first PN researching project «Fun-LDS» (200.000 €) on functional low-dimensional materials for electrochemical (bio)sensors. I’ve attracted (as PI leading 6 R&D+i projects) > 1.500.000€ of research funding.

Scientific management. Currently, I am head of the Dept. of Low-dimensional Materials and executive member of the IA commission within the ICMM-CSIC.

Contracts, technological or transfer merits. Co-inventor of 1 National and 1 European patent. Additionally, I’ve engaged in technological and knowledge transfer activities with various enterprises (DYNASOL S.L.) and coordinated numerous scientific divulgation and outreach activities.

Facilities. Setting up of High-performance Scientific Computing Clusters (3) at the UAM and the ICMM-CSIC (Madrid) with >800 calculation nodes.