Ángel Rubio (physicist)

Ángel Rubio (born September 27, 1965 in Oviedo ) is a Spanish theoretical physicist and director at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg.

Life

Rubio studied physics at the University of Valladolid , which awarded him a Licenciatura in 1988 and a doctorate in natural sciences in 1991.

After a year as an assistant professor (Profesor Titular Interino de Universidad) in Valladolid, he went to the University of California at Berkeley as a postdoctoral fellow in October 1992 , where he worked until 1994. He then returned to Valladolid as an assistant professor (Profesor Titular de Universidad) . In 2001 he moved to the University of the Basque Country in San Sebastián , where he has held a professorship since April 2001 and heads a working group for nano-bio-spectroscopy.

In the course of his career, Rubio completed numerous research stays abroad as a visiting professor, including at the Laboratoire des Solides Irradiés at the École polytechnique in Palaiseau (2000-2001), at the Free University of Berlin (2005 and 2006-2007), at the University of Montpellier II (2007 ) and at the University of California at Berkeley in 2014.

Rubio was a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin from 2009 to 2011 ; Since November 2011 he has been an external scientific member and heads the working group there for theoretical spectroscopy.

Since November 2014 Ángel Rubio has been director and head of the theory department at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg . Since June 2016 he has had the academic title of Professor at the University of Hamburg . In 2017, Rubio became a Distinguished Research Scientist at the Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ) at the Flatiron Institute Research Division of the Simons Foundation in New York City .

Act

Rubio's research concerns the theoretical solid state physics and in particular the theory and modeling of the properties of solids and nanostructures - in particular nanotubes , nanowires and semiconductor - cluster - under the influence of electromagnetic fields .

Rubio and his colleagues develop methods for the theoretical investigation of these properties using numerical methods . Among the areas of work include developments in the many-body theory and the time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT from English time-dependent density functional theory ), including ab initio Descriptions electronic excitations, optical spectroscopy and ultrafast spectroscopy , scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy and X-ray absorption spectroscopy to continue the characterization the electronic and optical properties of nanostructures.

honors and awards

In 2005, Ángel Rubio received the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation . In 2004 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society and in 2010 a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In 2014 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and in 2016 to the Academia Europaea . Also in 2016 Rubio received the medal of the Real Sociedad Española de Física . For 2018 he was awarded the Max Born Prize .

In addition, he has been granted two Advanced Grants funded by the European Research Council (ERC), which are awarded to scientists with an outstanding track record in their research careers over the past 10 years.

• 2011 - 2016 DYnamo
• 2016 - 2021 Q-Spec-NewMat

Publications

Ángel Rubio is co-editor of several conference proceedings and specialist books and author of more than 490 articles in peer-reviewed journals; his articles have been cited over 33,000 times. It has (as of March 2019) an h-index of 90.

Books

• R. Vajtai, X. Amymerich, LB Kish and A. Rubio (Eds.): Nanotechnology , Proceedings of SPIE , Vol. 5118 (2003), ISBN 978-0-8194-4978-8 .
• MAL Marques, CA Ullrich, F. Nogueira, A. Rubio, K. Burke and EKU Gross (Eds.): Time Dependent Density Functional Theory (TDDFT) , Lecture Notes in Physics, Vol. 706, Springer Verlag , 2006, ISBN 978 -3-540-35422-2 .
• MAL Marques, N. Maitra, F. Nogueira, EKU Gross, A. Rubio (Eds.): Fundamentals of Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory , Lecture Notes in Physics, Vol. 837, Springer Verlag , 2012, ISBN 978-3- 642-23517-7 .
• Su-Huai Wei, Angel Rubio, Hong Guo, Lei Lie (Eds.): Computational Semiconductor Materials Science , MRS Vol. 1370, Cambridge University Press , 2012, ISBN 978-1-60511-347-0 .

Video

• Ángel Rubio: How Can New States of Matter Be Generated on a Theoretical Level? In: lt.org. Latest Thinking, accessed on March 16, 2017 (English, video presentation). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Curriculum vitae - Angel Rubio Secades. (PDF) University of the Basque Country , accessed July 28, 2015 (Spanish).  
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Angel Rubio. (PDF) curriculum vitae. University of the Basque Country , accessed July 28, 2015 .  
3. ^ Group Leader: Professor Angel Rubio. Nano-Bio Spectroscopy Group. University of the Basque Country , accessed July 28, 2015 .  
4. ^ Theoretical Spectroscopy Group. Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society , February 17, 2015, accessed on July 28, 2015 (English).  
5. ↑ Profile of the institute. Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter , accessed on March 6, 2015 .  
6. ^ Department of Theory. Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter , accessed on July 28, 2015 .  
7. ↑ Department of Physics - News 07/2016. (PDF; 600 KB) University of Hamburg , accessed on March 23, 2019 . 
8. ^ Angel Rubio Appointed as CCQ Distinguished Research Scientist. July 6, 2017, accessed March 20, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Angel Rubio. In: ResearcherID . Thomson Reuters , accessed March 25, 2019 (English, list of publications and information on bibliometrics).  
10. ↑ Angel Rubio. In: Google Scholar . Retrieved on March 25, 2019 (English, list of publications and information on bibliometrics).