Founding research institutes
The cleanroom facility is current part of the research infrastructure by the Institute for Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM) and the Instituto de Tecnología Química (ITQ).
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Prof. Dr. Pascual Muñoz (1975) received his MSc and PhD thesis on Electronic Engineering and Photonics by the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (UPV), Spain. He is a current Full Professor at the Photonic Research Labs. Prof Muñoz runs a consolidated research line, started in 2005, on prototyping Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) in a technology agnostic fashion, where PICs are designed in the best suited technology (Silicon-On-Insulator, Indium Phosphide, Silica on Silicon, Silicon Nitride amongst other) for each application. He has published 50 papers in international refereed journals and over 70 conference contributions. He is a member of the Technical Programme Committees of the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) and the European Conference on Integrated Optics (ECIO). From his research line, he co-founded the UPV spin-off company VLC Photonics in 2011, where the PIC design know-how, expertise and tools have been transferred, and he served as CEO from 2011 to 2013. Since 2011, he is a member of the Board of Directors, where the company strategy is set for the management, and a member of the Joint VLC-UPV R&D Commission, where topics for mutual collaborative and/or contractual research are defined and supervised. Dr. Muñoz is a Senior Member of IEEE and Senior Member of the OSA. His current research encompasses PIC design, silicon nitride technologies and advanced full field PIC test engines. Since 2017, he is leading the initiative to establish UPVfab (www.fab.upv.es) the micro-fabrication R&D and pilot line cleanroom facility at UPV.
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Dr. José M. Serra (1976) did his PhD work at the Institute of Chemical Technology (ITQ) directed by Prof. A. Corma in collaboration with the Institute Français du Petrole. The thesis involved the development of new tools for combinatorial catalysis and its application in the discovery and optimization of industrial catalysts. After that, he conducted a 2-year postdoctoral stage at the Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, working on the development of nanostructured SOFC cathodes as well as ion conducting membranes. In 2006 he joined again ITQ and leads the Fuel Cells and Ionic Membranes research line. The current activities are principally focused on the application of catalysis and materials science in: (a) the development of solid oxide fuel cells components, paying special attention to the design and characterization of new electrocatalysts (principally, cathode materials); and (b) development of mixed ionic-electronic conducting membranes for oxygen and hydrogen separation and catalytic membrane reactor applications. As a result, several works have been published and different patents have been recently filed. He is coauthor of more than 65 scientific articles and book chapters and 16 patents in the field of catalysis and energy. He is involved in three FP7 EU projects dealing with ionic membranes and proton-conducting fuel cells: EFFIPRO, NASA-OTM and DEMOYS. The main research lines are ordered as follows: Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC), lithium batteries and electrochemical reactors: electrocatalysis Ionic membranes, solid state electrochemical devices and catalytic membrane reactors Combinatorial science and catalysis: design and development of processes and equipment for high-throughput screening of materials libraries Heterogeneous catalysis: acid-base, red-ox and multifunctional catalysts Synthesis and characterization of ceramic materials, including mesoporous materials Chemical reactor engineering and process engineering: design and setting-up of chemical reactors and other facilities at bench and pilot scale. Awards: Christian Friedrich Schönbein Contribution to Science Medal by the European Fuel Cell Forum (Luzern, Switzerland, 2009) ExxonMobil Chemical European Science and Engineering Award 2005 Spanish Catalysis Society (SECAT) Doctor Thesis Award 2005. Technical University of Valencia Thesis Award 2005 (Extraordinary award)
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Prof. Dr. Daniel Pastor received the Ingeniero de Tele- comunicacion degree and the Doctor Ingeniero de Telecomunicacion (Ph.D.) degree from the Universi- tat Polite ́cnica de Valencia (UPV), Valencia, Spain, in 1993 and 1996, respectively. He joined the Depar- tamento de Comunicaciones, UPV, in 1993, where he was with the Optical and quantum Communica- tions Group. He was an Associate Professor in 1999, and a Full Professor in 2010, carrying out his teach- ing activities at the Telecommunications Engineering Faculty. He is the co-author of more than 190 papers in journals and interna- tional conferences in the fields of optical delay line filters, fiber Bragg gratings, microwave photonics, wavelength-division-multiplexing and optical code divi- sion multiple access (OCDMA) devices and techniques. His research interests include complex fiber Bragg grating design for signal processing, fiber sensors and OCDMA, and photonic integrated devices applied to telecommunication and sensing.
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Pedro Atienzar was born in Valencia, Spain in 1977. He obtained his B.Sc, in Chemical Engineering at the University of Politécnica de Valencia (2002) and did his PhD (2007) at the Instituto de Tecnología Química (UPV-CSIC) under the supervision of Prof. Hermenegildo García. Afterwards he joined the group of Prof. Jenny Nelson in the Department of Physics at Imperial College London, where he worked as post-doctoral fellow (2007-2009) in the field of hybrid and polymeric photovoltaics devices. In 2009 he joined the Institute of Chemical Technology (ITQ), with several postdoctoral grants JaeDoc (CSIC), Juan de la Cierva and Ramón y Cajal (Spanish Ministry). Since 2016, hi is Tenured Scientific of CSIC (Spanish National Research Council). During his research collaborate with several companies such as FMC FORET or ABENGOA RENOVABLES; also, he was consultor of SOLARPRESS that is a UK company on the field of polymeric solar cells. He has co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed papers in high impact international scientific journals and is co-inventor of 6 national and international patents, one of them as individual inventor. He has also attended several international conferences. His major research interests are the synthesis and processing of new nanomaterials applied in the fields of photonics, optoelectronics and renewable energy. Combining synthesis of materials, photophysical and electronic studies and their implementation in electrodes and devices.
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