nireEHU ANGEL RUBIO SECADES
- Area 1
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Department 1
- Centre 1
- Faculty of Chemistry
- Area 2
- Department 2
- Centre 2
- Faculty of Chemistry
- Electronic mail
- angel.rubio@ehu.eus
Angel Rubio was born in Oviedo, Spain in 1965. He received his PhD in Physics in 1991 from the University of Valladolid (UVA). During his PhD studies, he spent time at several well-known universities in USA, Germany, UK, Spain and France. He also worked as a post-doctoral researcher at University of California at Berkeley. Between 1994 and 2001 he was an Associate Professor at the UVA. Diverse Professorships at the École Polytechnique Paris-Saclay, the Freie Universität Berlin and the Université de Montpellier followed. After being appointed with a Full Professorship in 2001, he moved to San Sebastián and started at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) as Chair of Condensed Matter Physics and director of the Nano-Bio Spectroscopy Group. Presently he is the managing director of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter and the director of its theory department. He is a distinguished professor of physics at the University of the Basque Country and a professor of physics at the University of Hamburg. He is one of the founders of the European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility and the originator of the widely used ab initio open-source project Octopus.
His research interests are rooted to the modeling and theory of electronic and structural properties of condensed matter as well as to the development of new theoretical tools to investigate the electronic response of materials, nanostructures, biomolecules and hybrid materials to external electr