Prof. Maria Carmen ASENSIO is currently a Professor at Materials Science Institute of Madrid (ICMM) of the Spanish Scientific Research Council (CSIC)  a at  the CSIC  Research Associated Unit : MATINÉE, created  between the Institute of Materials Science (ICMUV) of the Valencia Universit and the ICM.

Maria C. Asensio commenced her academic career in Argentina. Then she held a Senior Lecturer in Physics at the Autonomous University of Madrid, followed by research positions at the University of Warwick in England and the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max-Planck in Berlin, Germany. In 2004, she was elected Scientific Director of the IUVSTA’ International Union for Vacuum Science, Technique and Applications’ until 2007. Presently she has been chair of the IUVSTA Surface Science Division since 2016 to date. She has been appointed and is acting as an Editorial Member of several reputed scientific journals. Lately, she has been selected by the European Research Council as a Panel Member of the ERC for the Advanced Grant calls (2018-2019 and 2019-2020) of the Condensed Matter Physics Panel.

Asensio’s research comprises studying the application of wide-ranged in-house and Synchrotron Radiation Based techniques devoted to the spectroscopic characterization of ground-breaking materials in the area of Solid-State Physics. She focuses on the structural and electronic properties of surfaces, interfaces, and complex materials. She is a specialist in angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARUPS), synchrotron radiation Photoemission (SR-PES), and X-Ray absorption (XAS), among other conventional characterization materials science techniques. She mainly focused on determining the Fermi surface topology and electronic band structure of interfaces and massive materials, which frequently present electronic instabilities due to low dimensional effects. She has recently conceived and realized an innovative chemical and electronic imaging spectroscopic technique combining angle-resolved photoemission and nano- and microscopy, named “nanoARPES.”. She has more than 261 international journals, 1 book chapter, and more than 100 invited lectures. – Factor H: 47 and i10-index: 159, with more than 10800 citations, (Google scholar).