About Me
J. Fernández-Rossier leads the group of Theory of Quantum Nanostructures at INL (Braga, Portugal) since 2011. He obtained a Diploma (1994) and a PhD (1999) on Physics from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He then spend 2 years (99-01) as a postdoctoral researcher at the Physics Department of the University of California San Diego and 18 months (01-03) at the Physics Department of the University of Texas at Austin. In 2003 he obtained a "Ramón y Cajal" assistant professor position in the Universidad de Alicante (UA). He was promoted to a permanent position in 2008 and to associate professor (professor titular) in 2009. Since 2011 he is on leave from the UA and he holds a tenured staff researcher position at the INL (Braga, Portugal). He has graduated 8 PhD students, coauthored more than 150 papers, coordinated several European and national research projects. His research interests include 2D materials, on-surface atomic scale magnetism, nanographenes, scanning tunnel microscopies, quantum sensing and quantum computing.
