curriculum

You can download a copy of my cv from here

A brief overview:

Date and place of birth:  24th July 1971, Madrid, Spain    Nationality:  Spanish

Education-Training:
Assistant Professor (B-researcher, tenure track)    2008-
Institute for Electronic Structure and Laser – FORTH, Crete, Greece
Objective: “Optical Biomedical Applications”

Associated Researcher (G-researcher)    2005-2008
Institute for Electronic Structure and Laser – FORTH, Crete, Greece
Objective: “Fluorescence Molecular Tomography and Biomedical Applications”

Visiting Fellow                2002-
Center for Molecular Imaging Research, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Objective: “Fluorescence Molecular Tomography”
Supervisors: V. Ntziachristos, R. Weissleder
Duration: Short stays of a few weeks every few months.

Research Fellow in Radiology,     2002 (3 months)
Center for Molecular Imaging Research, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General  Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Objective: “Fluorescence Molecular Tomography”
Supervisors: V. Ntziachristos, R. Weissleder

Post-Doc Fellow             2000-
Institute for Electronic Structure and Laser – FORTH, Crete, Greece
Objective: “Study of light propagation in disordered media with gain and biomedical applications”
Supervisor: E. N. Economou

PhD degree                 2000
Institute of Material Science of Madrid & Universidad Autónoma of Madrid
Thesis Title: “Light propagation in turbid media with biomedical applications”
Supervisor: M. Nieto-Vesperinas

Visiting Scholar             2000 (4 weeks)
University of Pennsylvania (UPENN), Philadelphia (U.S.A.),
Objective: Experiments on Diffuse Optical Tomography
Supervisor: Arjun. G. Yodh.

Visiting Scholar             1999 (6 weeks)
University College London (U.K.)
Objective: Forward and Inverse Problems in Optical Tomography
Supervisor: Simon Arridge.

Visiting Scholar             1998 (6 weeks)
University of Pennsylvania (UPENN), Philadelphia (U.S.A.),
Objective: Optical Characterization of turbid media
Supervisor: Arjun. G. Yodh.

Visiting Scholar             1997 (6 weeks)
European Microwave Signature Laboratory (EMSL), Joint Research Center, Ispra Italy
Objective: Experiments on the area of electromagnetic scattering from random rough surfaces
Supervisor: Joaquim Fortuny.

Scholarship                 1996-2000
Ιnstituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid & Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Scholarship from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC), under number FP96-02633328N.
Supervisor: Manuel Nieto Vesperinas

Diploma                 1996
Universidad Autónoma of Madrid
Graduated in Physics, specific training in Physical Optics