Short biography
I graduated in physics in 1985 at the Balseiro Institute, Argentina. In 1989 I finished my PhD at the Max-Planck Institute FKF in Stuttgart with Prof. M. Cardona. It followed a two-years postdoc at AT&T Bell Labs in Murray Hill, USA, and back at MPI-FKF Stuttgart for three years. In 1996 I moved to the Technical University of Berlin for an appointment as Research & Teaching Associate, where in 1998 I completed my Habilitation. In 1999 I received the Karl-Scheel Prize from the Physical Society of Berlin for my contributions to the field of high-pressure semiconductor physics. In November 2003, I joined ICMAB-CSIC as ICREA, co-founding the Optoelectronic Properties of Nanostructured Materials (NANOPTO) group. At ICMAB I created a facility for optical spectroscopy with micro/nanometer-scale resolution and set up a lab for high-pressure physics.
