Jordi Fraxedas
Head of group at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2)
Physics graduate (Saragossa University, 1985) and PhD (Stuttgart University, 1990). He carried out his doctoral thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart and Berlin’s Electron Storage Ring Society for Synchrotron Radiation (BESSY), under the supervision of Professor M. Cardona. After postdoctoral research at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble (France) and the European particle physics laboratory (CERN) in Geneva (Switzerland), he joined the Barcelona Institute of Materials Science (ICMAB) at the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), in 1995, and worked as associated researcher with the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in 2002. He is currently head of group at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2).
His research activity centres on interfacial phenomena and surface science. He is co-author of over 130 pier-reviewed scientific articles and has published Molecular Organic Materials: from Molecules to Crystalline Solids (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and Water at Interfaces: A Molecular Approach (Taylor and Francis CRC, 2014), and is editor of Molecular Materials: Preparation, Characterization, and Applications (Taylor and Francis CRC, 2017).