Ikerbasque Research Professor at DIPC
Research line:
Mineral self-organization, Advanced materials, Origin of life, life detectionFrank Price of the International Organization of Crystal Growth for fundamental contributions to crystal growth, Premio Granada Ciudad de la Ciencia y la Innovacion (2023), Elizabeth Wood Prize of the American Crystallographic Association (2022-2023), Waltrude & Friedrich Liebau prize of the German Crystallographic Society for the promotion of Interdisciplinary Crystallography, Medal of Honour for the Promotion of Invention (García Cabrerizo Foundation, Madrid, 2014), MISCA Gold Medal Price (Italian and Spanish Crystallographic Associations-MISCA, 2013), Correspondent Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences
Previous research experience as Research Professor of CSIC at the University of Granada, University of Antwerp, Pennsylvania State University
Ph.D. in Geological Sciences, 1980, from Universidad Complutense de Madrid