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Biography

I graduated in physics in 1985 from the Balseiro Institute in Bariloche, Argentina, for which I was granted one of 30 yearly fellowships, competing with students from all over the country. In 1986 I moved to Germany for my PhD at the Max-Planck Institute FKF in Stuttgart with Prof. M. Cardona, which I finished in 1989. It followed a two-years postdoc at AT&T Bell Labs in Murray Hill, USA, working with A. Pinczuk pursuing pioneer research on elementary excitations (e.g. plasmons) of 1D electron gases formed in GaAs quantum wires. After the postdoc I went back to the MPI Stuttgart for three years. In 1996 I switched to the Technical University of Berlin for an appointment as Research & Teaching Associate. I performed there my Habilitation as Privat Dozent in June 1998. I was awarded the Karl-Scheel Prize of the Physical Society of Berlin for my contributions to the field of high-pressure semiconductor physics in 1999. In November 2003 I joined the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) for a permanent appointment as ICREA Research Professor. At ICMAB I created a facility for optical spectroscopy with micro and nanometer-scale resolution and set up a laboratory for high-pressure physics.

Activities

Employment (6)

ICREA: Barcelona, ES

2003-11-01 to present | Research Prof.
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Alejandro R. Goñi

Technical University of Berlin: Berlin, DE

2002-01-01 to 2003-12-31 | Senior Research and Teaching Associate
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Alejandro R. Goñi

Technical University of Berlin: Berlin, DE

1996-01-01 to 2001-12-31 | Research and Teaching Associate
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Alejandro R. Goñi

Max-Planck-Institute Stuttgart: Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, DE

1992-11-01 to 1995-12-31 | Research Associate
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AT&T Labs: Murray Hill, NJ, US

1990-09-01 to 1992-10-31 | Postdoctoral Research Associate
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Alejandro R. Goñi

Max-Planck-Institute Stuttgart: Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, DE

1989-08-01 to 1990-08-31 | Postdoctoral Research Associate
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Education and qualifications (4)

Technical University of Berlin: Berlin, DE

1995-03-01 to 1998-06-18 | Habilitation (Privat Dozent)
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Universität Stuttgart: Stuttgart, DE

1986-04-06 to 1989-07-14 | Dr. rer Nat. (PhD in Physics)
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Instituto Balseiro, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo: Bariloche, AR

1982-08-01 to 1985-12-31 | Licenciado en Física (MsC in Physics)
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Alejandro R. Goñi

Universidad Nacional de Córdoba Facultad de Matemática Astronomía y Física: Cordoba, Córdoba, AR

1980-03-15 to 1982-07-31
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Professional activities (1)

Physical Society of Berlin : Berlin, DE

1999-03-10 | Karl-Scheel Prize
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Funding (9)

CO2 conversion into chemicals of industrial interest by plasmon-assisted photocatalysis (PLASMOCRACO2)

2022-12 to 2024-11 | Grant
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Madrid, ES)
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Alejandro R. Goñi

Spectrum-on-demand light source for photovoltaic materials characterization (SOLS)

2022-12 to 2024-11 | Grant
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Madrid, ES)
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Alejandro R. Goñi

Improving solar cell efficiency by spectral matching and charge mobility enhancement (ISOSCELLES)

2022-01 to 2024-12 | Grant
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Madrid, ES)
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Alejandro R. Goñi

Plasmon-resonance driven thermionic emitters for improved solar energy harvesting (PLASMIONICO)

2019-09 to 2021-08 | Grant
European Research Council (Brussels, BE)
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Alejandro R. Goñi

Efficient harvesting of visible and infrared solar energy through rainbow architectures (RAINBOW)

2019-01 to 2021-12 | Grant
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Madrid, ES)
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Alejandro R. Goñi

Organic/inorganic hybrid materials for photovoltaic/thermoelectric hybrid applications (HIBRI2)

2016-01 to 2018-12 | Grant
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Madrid, ES)
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Alejandro R. Goñi

Industrial project on technological knowledge transfer between CSIC and a private sector company

2015-09 to 2023-10 | Contract
KOSTAL Eléctrica S.A. (Sentmenat, ES)
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Alejandro R. Goñi

Tailoring electronic and phononic properties of nanomaterials: Towards improved thermoelectricity (NanoTHERM)

2011-01 to 2016-12 | Grant
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Madrid, ES)
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Alejandro R. Goñi

Boosting piezoresistivity by tailoring strain in Si/Ge nanostructures: Next-generation cantilever sensors (PIEZOHM)

2010-02 to 2013-01 | Grant
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Madrid, ES)
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Alejandro R. Goñi

Peer review (38 reviews for 17 publications/grants)

Review activity for ACS applied materials & interfaces. (2)
Review activity for ACS energy letters. (1)
Review activity for Advanced functional materials. (1)
Review activity for Advanced materials. (2)
Review activity for Advanced optical materials (3)
Review activity for Applied physics letters. (3)
Review activity for Applied physics. (1)
Review activity for Chemistry of materials. (1)
Review activity for Journal of applied physics. (4)
Review activity for Journal of physical chemistry. (8)
Review activity for Journal of the American Chemical Society. (2)
Review activity for Nature communications (1)
Review activity for Nature materials. (1)
Review activity for Physica status solidi. (1)
Review activity for Physica. (2)
Review activity for Small. (1)
Review activity for The journal of physical chemistry letters. (4)