CV Summary – José Ignacio Martínez

• 2017 (March) – present Ramón y Cajal Fellow at the ICMM – CSIC (Madrid, Spain) in ESISNA Group.
• 2015 (March) – 2017 (March) Postdoctoral Research Associate (EU ERC-Synergy Project) at the ICMM – CSIC (Madrid, Spain) with Prof. José A. Martín-Gago in ESISNA Group. Circumstellar dust processing.
• 2013 (February) – 2015 (February) JaeDoc-CSIC Postdoctoral Research Associate at the ICMM – CSIC (Madrid, Spain) with Prof. José A. Martín-Gago in ESISNA Group. Heteroaromatics towards Graphene, Hydrogen Storage, Organics on Metals and Oxides. Circumstellar dust processing.
• 2010 (January) – 2013 (January) Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Research Associate at the UAM (Madrid, Spain) with Prof. Fernando Flores (Grupo FAST). Metal-organic Interfaces & Theoretical STM Characterization.
• 2009 (September) – 2010 (January) Postdoctoral Research Associate (EU FP7 Project) at the UAM (Madrid, Spain) with Prof. Fernando Flores (Grupo FAST). Electronic Structure Corrections (Many-body & Perturbation Theory Methods) in Organic Molecules on Surfaces.
• 2007 (Ausgust) – 2009 (September) Postdoctoral Research Associate (EU FP7 Project) at the Center for Atomic-scale Materials Design (CAMD), Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Lyngby, Denmark, with Prof. Dr. Jens K. Nørskov Group. Theoretical Catalysis (OR and HE Reactions): Fuel & Solar Cells.
• 2003 – 2007 (July) FPI pHD Student at Dept. Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics in University of Valladolid (UVA) with Prof. Julio A. Alonso (Supervisor). “First-principles Study of the Electronic Excitations and Optical Properties of Metal and Organometallic Atomic Aggregates and Clusters”.

Scientific Conferences (Selected Orals)

1. Title: “Universal Trends in the Covalent Functionalization of Epitaxial Graphene by Amino-terminated Organic Molecules” Meeting: “On-Surface Synthesis International Workshop 2018” Place / Year: Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain (2018).
2. Title: “Modelling of Adsorption and Intercalation of Hydrogen on/into Tungsten Disulphide Multilayers and Multiwall Nanotubes” Meeting: «4^rh EMN Meeting on Computation and Theory» Place / Year: San Sebastián, Spain (2018) (INVITED)
3. Title: “Universal Trends in the Covalent Functionalization of Epitaxial Graphene by Amino-terminated Organic Molecules” Meeting: “Workshop Graphene Flagship WP3” Place / Year: Fuerteventura, Spain (2017). (INVITED)
4. Title: “Unveiling Universal Trends for the Energy Level Alignment in Organic/Oxide Interfaces” Meeting: «33^rd European Conference on Surface Science (ECOSS-33)» Place / Year: Szeged, Hungary (2017)
5. Title: “Unveiling Universal Trends for the Energy Level Alignment in Organic/Oxide Interfaces” Meeting: «Interface Properties in Organic Electronics: Key Challenges (IPOE2017)» Place / Year: Cergy-Pontoise, France (2017).
6. Title: “By-aggregation Growth and Relative Abundance of Small Cn (n ≤ 36) and SinCm (n+m ≤ 5) Clusters in the Interestellar Medium” Meeting: “Workshop NANOCOSMOS 2017” Place / Year: Toulouse, France (2017).
7. Title: “Theoretical Insights on Mechanical and Electronic Decoupling of Graphene from Metals and Insulators ” Meeting: “Synthetic Methods Across the Flagship” Place / Year: Tenerife, Spain (2017). (INVITED)
8. Title: “By-aggregation Growth and Relative Abundance of Small SinCm (n+m ≤ 5) Clusters in the Interestellar Medium” Place / Year: Madrid, Spain (2016).
9. Title: “First-principles Insights on the CVD Growth of Graphene on Cu Surfaces” Meeting: “Advances on the Synthesis of Graphene” Place / Year: Fuerteventura, Spain (2016). (INVITED)
10. Title: “Organics on TiO2 Surfaces: Extreme Charge Transfer Phenomena, On-surface Reactions, Barrier Heights of Formation and STM Imaging” Meeting: “FUERZAS Y TUNEL 2016 (FYT2016)” Place / Year: Girona, Spain (2016).
11. Title: “Formation of Small Carbon Clusters in StarDust: Structure, Spectroscopy, Reactivity and Dynamics” Meeting: “NANOCOSMOS – THEORY MEETING” Place / Year: Toulouse, Francia (2015)
12. Title: “H-induced Graphene Etching as Origin of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Formation: From the Stars to the Laboratory” Meeting: 16^th European Conference on Applications of Surface and Interface Analysis (ECASIA’15) Place / Year: Granada, Spain (2015)
13. Title: “H-induced Graphene Etching as Origin of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Formation: From the Stars to the Laboratory” Meeting: 31^st European Conference on Surface Science (ECOSS-31) Place / Year: Barcelona, Spain (2015)
14. Title: “THEORETICAL STM CHARACTERIZATION OF ON-SURFACE REACTIONS OF HETEROAROMATICS” Meeting: “FUERZAS Y TUNEL 2014 (FYT2014)” Place / Year: San Sebastián, España (2014)
15. Title: “STM ANALYSIS OF ON-SURFACE REACTIONS OF HETEROAROMATICS” Meeting: INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP “ON-SURFACE SYNTHESIS” Place / Year: Les Houches, France (2014)
16. Title: “THEORETICAL STM CHARACTERIZATION OF ORGANICS ON SURFACES: FROM CATALYSIS TO MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS” Meeting: VIII REUNIÓN BIENAL DEL GRUPO ESPECIALIZADO DE FÍSICA DEL ESTADO SÓLIDO Place / Year: Ciudad Real, Spain (2014) (INVITED)
17. Title: “ORGANIC MOLECULES ON SURFACES: ENERGY LEVEL ALIGNMENT, CHARGING ENERGY AND THEORETICAL STM” Meeting: CONVERGENT DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENT FOR COMPUTATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY Place / Year: San Lorenzo del Escorial, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain (2013) (INVITED)
18. Title: “IMPROVEMENT OF STM RESOLUTION WITH H-SENSITIZED TIPS” Meeting: FUERZAS Y TÚNEL 2012 (FYT2012) Place / Year: San Lorenzo del Escorial, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain (2012)
19. Title: “IMPROVEMENT OF STM RESOLUTION WITH H-SENSITIZED TIPS” Meeting: ATOMIC STRUCTURE OF NANOSYSTEMS FROM FIRST-PRINCIPLES SIMULATIONS AND MICROSCOPY EXPERIMENTS (PHYSICS BOAT 2012) Place / Year: Helsinki, Finland (2012)
20. Title: “THEORETICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF ORGANIC-MOLECULE / METAL INTERFACES” Meeting: 9^TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CRYSTALLINE ORGANIC METALS, SUPERCONDUCTORS AND FERROMAGNETS (ISCOM 2011) Place / Year: Gniezno, Poland (2011)
21. Title: “UNIVERSALITY IN OXYGEN EVOLUTION ELECTROCATALYSIS ON OXIDE SURFACES” Meeting: EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON SURFACE SCIENCE (ECOSS28) Place / Year: Wroclaw, Poland (2011)
22. Title: “TRENDS IN METAL OXIDE STABILITY FOR NANORODS, NANOTUBES, AND SURFACES” Meeting: NANOWIRES 2011 Place / Year: Lesvos Island, Greece (2011) (INVITED)

Participation in I+D+i Projects

1. CSIC PIC-2017 Program for International Mobility between Collaborating Research Groups  “Size-Selective Carbon Nanostructures as Obstacles to Graphene Growth on a Metal” (between the ESISNA Group, Madrid (CSIC), headed by Prof. José A. Martín-Gago and the HYBRID Group, Grenoble, France (Instituto Néel), headed by Dr. Johann Coraux. 35.000 € / group (Role: Member of the Researching Group)
2. «Redes de Excelencia» Program 2018 of the «Comunidad de Madrid» (Materials). “Nueva Generación de Materiales Multifuncionales para Fotosíntesis Artificial” (FOTOART-CM: P2018/NMT-4367). Coordinator: Víctor de la Peña O’Shea. Principal Investigator ICMM-CSIC: José A. Martín-Gago. 1.083.374 € (Role: Member of the Researching Group)
3. “FUNCTIONAL LOW-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL (BIO)SENSING – FUN-LDS” (MAT2017-85089-C2-1-R), Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación, 185.100 € (2018 – 2020) (Role: IP & Coordinator)
4. “GRAPHENE FLAGSHIP (Core2) – WP MATERIAL SCIENCE” (IDEAS-FP7-785219), EUROPEAN COMMISSION SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME, 400.000 € our branch (2018 – 2020)
5. “GRAPHENE FLAGSHIP (Core1) – WP MATERIAL SCIENCE” (IDEAS-FP7-604391), EUROPEAN COMMISSION SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME, 400.000 € our branch (2013 – 2018)
6. “Grafeno y otras arquitecturas 2D mediante química en superficie: crecimiento y propiedades – G*SURF” (MAT2014-54231-C4-1-P) Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación (2013-2016), 227.480 € (2015 – 2017)
7. “GAS AND DUST FROM THE STARS TO THE LABORATORY: EXPLORING THE NANOCOSMOS” (ERC-2013-SYG-610256) “Ideas” ERC Synergy Grants, 15.000.000 € (2014 – 2020)
8. “REACTIVITY OF ORGANIC MOLECULES ON SURFACES – REOMS” (MAT2011-26534) Dirección General de Investigación (DGI), 326.446 € (2012 – 2014)
9. “FIRST-PRINCIPLES SIMULATION OF COMPLEX MATERIALS: ORGANIC MATERIALS INTERFACES, PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND NANOCATALYSIS” (FIS2010-16046) Dirección General de Investigación (DGI), 40.000 € (2011 – 2013)
10. “NANOOBJECTS: FROM ATOMS TOWARDS VIRUS” (S2009/MAT-1467) Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid (CAM), 886.285 € (2009 – 2012)
11. “MODELLING OF ELECTRONIC PROCESSES AT INTERFACES IN ORGANIC-BASED ELECTRONIC DEVICES” (CP-FP228424-2 MINOTOR), EUROPEAN COMMISSION SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME (FP/2007-2013), 3.000.000 € (2009 – 2012)
12. “FIRST-PRINCIPLES SIMULATIONS OF NANOMATERIALS” (MAT2007-60966) Dirección General de Investigación (DGI), 40.000 € (2007 – 2010)
13. “POLYMER ELECTROLYTES AND NON NOBLE METAL ELECTROCATALYSTS FOR HIGH TEMPERATURE PEM FUEL CELLS – APOLLON-B –“ (STREP NMP3-CT-2006-033228), INTEGRATING AND STRENGTHENING THE EUROPEAN RESEARCH AREA, 2.861.799 € (2006 – 2009)
14. “COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATIONS OF NANOSTRUCTURES” (MAT2005-06544) Dirección General de Investigación (DGI), 108.000 € (2005 – 2008)
15. “INTERACTION OF NANOTUBES AND NANOPARTICLES WITH ATOMS, MOLECULES AND LASER PULSES ON THE BASIS FOR THE FUTURE TECHNOLOGY” (VA039A05) Junta de Castilla y León, 21.400 € (2005 – 2007)
16. “FRAGMENTATION AND ASSEMBLING OF NANOTUBES AND OTHER NANOSTRUCTURES” (MAT2002-04499) Dirección General de Investigación (DGI), 86.250 € (2002 – 2005)

Technological Contracts – Collaboration with Industry

• “Technological assistance contract” with the enterprise DYNASOL GESTION. “TRABAJOS DE SIMULACIÓN DE INTERACCIÓN DE OLIGÓMEROS DE BUTADIENO FUNCIONALIZADO SOBRE UNA SUPERFICIE DE SILICE”. Invoiced: 2000 €
• “Technological assistance contract” with the enterprise DYNASOL GESTION. “trabajos de simulación de oligómeros de butadienil-litio acomplejados por diferentes compuestos químicos”. Invoiced: 3000 €

Teaching and Training

• 2003 – 2007 «Experimental Techniques in Physics IV» (60 h / year), University of Valladolid, Valladolid (Spain) (Degree in Physics / Assistant Professor)
• 2009 – 2010 «Laboratory of Physics» (16 h), Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid (Spain) (Degree in Chemical Engineering / Assistant Professor) «Laboratory of Physics» (16 h), Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid (Spain) (Degree in Environmental Sciences / Assistant Professor)
• 2010 – 2013 «General Physics» (60 h / year), Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid (Spain) (Degree in Chemical Engineering / Coordinator Professor)
• 2013 – 2014 «General Physics» (60 h), Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid (Spain) (Degree in Chemical Engineering / Ad-honorem Professor – Coordinator)

Expert Activities

• External evaluator for scientific (inter)national agencies: ANEP (Spain), FWF (Austria) and ANPCyT (Argentina), as well as belonging to H2020 experts panel.
• External evaluator for the I+D+i DNV GL Enterprise.
• Frequent referee for the most prestigious scientific editorials (APS, ACS, RSC, Wiley&Sons, Elsevier, Nature PG, among others)

 Outreach Activities

• “Ciencia, descubrimientos, inventos. De lo más grande a lo más pequeño.” (Seminar)
• “Conoce, experimenta y descubre la superconductividad.” Oriented to 6^th-degree primary-school students of “CEIP La Latina de Madrid”. (Science Week 2017)
• “Conoce, experimenta y descubre la superconductividad.” Oriented to 6^th-degree primary-school students of “CEIP La Latina de Madrid”. (Science Week 2018)
• “Grafeno. De la batidora al sensor ultrasensible.” (Scientific Weekend)
• “NANOCOSMOS. De lo más grande a lo más pequeño: Creando una estrella en el laboratorio.” (7^th Reserachers European Night)
• «Nuevos Materiales: Avanzando Hacia la Tecnología del Futuro.” (Science Week)
• «When Hydrogen Attacks Graphene: From Its Rupture Towards the Formation of Hydrocarbons and Hydrocarbyls.» (Seminar in “II Young Researchers Meeting CSIC”)
• Collaborator and assistant guide («The Marvelous World of the Surfaces») within the «visits program» of the ICMM-CSIC for first/second-degree high-school and high-capacities students, and general non-scientist public.
• Publication of outreach articles in the Spanish Journal of Physics (RSEF):
  1. “Cuando el grafeno toca metales”
  2. “Ampliando las aplicaciones del grafeno”

Other Merits

• Accredited professor (assistant, contracted and private university professor) by Spanish ANECA
• Member of two specialized groups of the Spanish Royal Society of Physics (RSEF)
• Construction of a high-performance scientific computing cluster at the UAM (Madrid) with 150 calculation nodes
• “Ad-honorem” Professor at UAM since 2013 (Condensed Matter Theoretical Physics)
• Guest editor for special issue in Eur. Phys. J. D (Conference “ISSPIC XIV”)
• Certificate of Pedagogical Aptitude (CAP) in “Physics and Chemistry” – (200 h)
• Editor member of the «Journal of Physics and Research Applications».
• Organizing Chair of the 4^rh  edition of the conference «European Workshop on Epitaxial Graphene and 2D Materials» (EWEG2018) celebrated in the city of Salamanca, Spain (May 2018).

• Member of the Scientific Committee of the biannual conference «European Workshop on Epitaxial Graphene and 2D Materials»