nireEHU ANDRES ARNAU PINO
- Knowledge area
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Department
- Centre
- Faculty of Chemistry
- Electronic mail
- andres.arnau@ehu.eus
1) PH D thesis in 1989 UPV/EHU (supervisor Prof. P. M. Echenique). Post-doctoral stays at
Queen’s University (Kingston, Canada) with Prof. E. Zaremba en 1990/1992 and Hahn
Meitner Institut (Berlin, Germany) with Prof. N. Stolterfoht en 1994. Participation in HCM and
TMR european networks in the early 90’s with experimental groups working in the field of
interaction of ions with matter.
2) After having obtained a University Professor position in the Department of Physics of
Materials UPV/EHU in 2001, I changed my field of research. I visited the Surface Science
Research Centre in Liverpool (UK) in summer 2003 and 2005 invited by Prof. Werner Hofer
and, in 2007, I visited the University Paul Sabatier in Toulouse (France) invited by Prof.
Nicolas Lorente. Since then, I have been working in a research line based on ab initio
calculations of the different nanostructured materials electronic structure, in close
colaboration with Dr. Daniel Sanchez Portal, addressing several problems in the field of
physico-chemistry of surfaces and electronic transport.
3) In the last four years, my research activity has focused on problems related to the
electronic and magnetic properties of complex surfaces of different kind, including metalorganic
coordination networks, self-assembled monolayers of molecules and graphene on
metal surfaces. Recently, I have started a collaboration with Prof. Evgueni Chulkov in the
field of electronic structure of topological insulator