Emilio Lora-Tamayo D'Ocón

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Emilio Lora-Tamayo (Madrid, 1950) has worked in CSIC since 1975. The CSIC President was also President between 2003 and 2004 after acting as CSIC vicepresident for Science and Technology from 1996 to 2003. In the year 2003, Emilio Lora-Tamayo initiated the change on the legal structure of CSIC, formerly a Public Research Organism, that ended on the creation of the Agencia Estatal de Investigación CSIC. On January 13th 2012 the Spanish Council of Ministers designated him as CSIC President.

After achieving his graduation in Physics in 1972, he was awarded the Diplôme d’Études Approfondies at the Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse, 1973). He obtained the PhD degree in Physics by the Universidad Complutense (Madrid, 1977). Since 1989, he is Professor of Electronics at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. He has been researcher at the Ècole Nationale Supérieure d’Aéronautique et de l’Espace (Toulouse, France), at the Laboratoire d’Automatique et ses Aplications Spatiales (Toulouse, France) and at the Laboratoire d’Electronique et de l’Informatique (Grenoble, France). He has been visiting professor at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department at UC Berkeley (United States).

He has been Director of the Instituto de Microelectrónica de Barcelona-Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica (IMB-CNM) and of the associated “Integrated Micro and Nanofabrication Clean Room”. He has also coordinated the Barcelona Nanocluster at Bellaterra (BCN-b).

His expertise is Microelectronics and Nanotecnología covering aspects of Physics and technology of semiconductors and microchips, simulation and design of silicon microdevices and chips, Micro and Nanosystems (MEMS & NEMS), nanofabrication and CNTs. He is the author of more than 100 research articles in peer reviewed scientific journals, and more tan 150 communications at scientific meetings. He is coauthor of 7 patents and has written 12 books on his subject. He has been the coordinator or participated coordinated/participated in more than 50 national or international research projects. He was the president of the scientific committee to asses and repair the damages caused by the “Prestige” oil spill (2002-2003).

He is full member of the Real Academia de Ciencias y Artes de Barcelona and corresponding member of the Real Academia de Medicina y Cirugía de Cádiz and of the Real Academia de San Dionisio de Artes y Ciencias de Jerez de la Frontera. He has been awarded with the Encomienda de número de la Orden del Mérito Civil and several CSIC awards.

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