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It is a great pleasure for me to present the Report of the Madrid Institutes for AdvancesStudies (IMDEA). This document covers the activity of the first years of these centresfor advanced research, which were created by the Government of the Community ofMadrid to help fulfil its commitment to "Making Madrid a place for Science and Tech-nology”.

The Madrid R&D+i system has a large number of "scientific agents", including universi-ties, several research centres, some of them newly established –the IMDEA Institutes–,and a sizeable number of companies that are leaders in their respective sectors. All of them,with support from the regional government, have created and maintain an environment wherethe scientific and business worlds work intertwined so that science is the main instrumentfor improving productivity.

The creation of the IMDEA Institutes responded to the need to build an institutionalframework for research in Madrid that would clearly place it at the top of internationalrankings. Companies have been involved from the outset and have played an importantrole in its design, defining its goals and lines of research, monitoring its results, etc., withthe awareness that in collaboration with these institutes they can perform research that

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enhances their competitiveness and their ability to develop their own technology. In thisway, research is performed in those areas where there is demand for innovative solutionsthat enable Madrid's entrepreneurs to improve their productivity and their national and inter-national market position.

With the IMDEA Institutes Community of Madrid has adapted international best prac-tices that have helped the most prestigious research centres in the world to reach theposition they are nowadays to the local R&D+i system.

When the government led by Esperanza Aguirre decided to create the IMDEA Institutes, theresearch capabilities available in the Community of Madrid were not only considered, butalso the current and future needs of our region including technological and industrial change,the emergence of new economic sectors, and the needs of both the population and theregion of Madrid were taken into account. The goal was clear: achieving more social benefitsfrom research and the application of science, and improving the effectiveness, efficiency, qual-ity and cost of public services. At that time, the project raised high expectations, and wasconsidered creative and risky. The focus would be on people, excellence, and the collabora-tion of research centres with companies and universities. Today, after seeing the excellentresults achieved in such a short time, I am convinced that the decision was correct.

In the current crisis the Government of the Community of Madrid understands that onlythrough research of excellence we will be able to continue growing. Our future dependson it. As a result, we believe that supporting the IMDEA institutes is strategic, and wewill continue to provide that support.

After the accomplishments achieved in just five years, in the near future we will witnessthe consolidation of the IMDEA Institutes. In this new phase we all will work to bolsterR&D in the region. We will bring together high quality researchers from across the worldin installations that are equipped with excellent resources and facilities, and we will pro-mote an even closer collaboration with industry. In the mid term, our hope is that the IMDEAInstitutes become an international reference in their respective scientific fields.

I would like to conclude with a quote by Santiago Ramon y Cajal that epitomizes whatthe Regional Ministry of Education and Employment believe are the keys to success ofany initiative: "The secret to success is easy and can be summed up in two words: workand perseverance". Work and perseverance are important ingredients in the day-to-dayat the Ministry that I direct, and work and perseverance also play an important role forthose who strive to make the IMDEA Institutes international reference centres. I wantto thank them for accepting the challenge that we issued five years ago and for daringto embark on this unprecedented project in Spain. In a very short period of time their"work and perseverance" has allowed the IMDEA institutes to find their place amongthe scientific institutions that compete in the global science marketplace.

Excma. Sra. Dª. Lucía Figar de LacalleMinister of Education and Employment

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contents1. R&D: the engine for growth in the 21st century [8]

2. Vision [10]

3. Mission and goals [12]

4. Strategy [14]

5. Imdea in figures [17]

6. Public reconigtion [27]

7. Science and society [29]

8. Scientific infrastructures [32]

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1R&D: the engine for growth in the 21st century


Education and research are the two keystones of the «knowledge society». Generation

and transmission of knowledge forms the pillars of competitiveness and welfare. In recent

years Madrid has modernized important areas such as health care, transport, education,

or assistance for the disabled and elderly. Thus, the groundwork for sustained and sustain-

able development has been laid down. Today, at the dawn of the 21st century, public

policies should take a qualitative leap and focus on the modernization of science and

research. In other words, the key to the future is investment in science and technology.

Madrid can make its ability to generate knowledge the key to its future. In fact, educa-

tion and research activities are already one of its major strengths.

According to information published in Invest in Spain (an initiative of the Ministerio de

Industria, Turismo y Comercio) based on data from the INE (Instituto Nacional de Estadís-

tica) and Eurostat, updated in March 2012, the Comunidad de Madrid ranks third on the

list of European regions in high technology employment and the proportion of special-

ists and third level technicians employed in the technology sector. This organization high-

lights other features that make Madrid highly attractive: its dynamism and integration

capacity, its excellent infrastructure, the highly skilled and flexible workforce, the fact

that it is a gateway to other growing markets, and its leadership in the Aerospace or the

Health Sciences sectors.

Furthermore, the available higher education and science and technology structures make

Madrid a very attractive city. In the area of higher education, Madrid was home in 2010

to 26% of the country’s workforce with a post secondary education, even though Madrid’s

population is only 14% of the national total. With regard to research, the stock of scien-

tific capital calculated by the Instituto de Análisis Industrial y Financiero for 2008, the

most recent data published, was €1,004.30 per capita for Madrid, €479.20 for Spain

as a whole and €801.10 for the EU-15. Madrid is in a less favourable position in stock

of technological capital: it is ahead of Spain (€ 960.20 per capita compared to € 405.20)

but lags behind the european (€ 1,458.30).

The institutional framework that underlies Madrid’s achievement includes 16 universi-

ties, 46 centres in the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), which

has its headquarters in the capital, 46 Technology Transfer Centres promoted by the Con-

sejería de Economía e Innovación Tecnológica, a score of other public research institu-

tions from different organizations, like science parks and business incubators, and a

pioneering initiative in Spain, the eight Madrid Institutes for Advanced Studies (IMDEA).

A summary of IMDEA’s research will be provided below in a brief outline of the most

important activity lines being carry out by the eight centres for advanced research.

More detailed information is available in the Reports published by each centre.

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2vision


IMDEA is Madrid’s new regional institutional framework for scientific and technological

research. It combines public and private backing for science focused on fulfilling the needs

of society. From start, the Administration, universities, scientists and companies have par-

ticipated in its design. Its ultimate goal, as we have already stated, is to satisfy the needs

of society by promoting international excellence in R&D and a new model for transfering tan-

gible results to society.

IMDEA wants to become the «brand name» of quality science undertaken in Madrid,

while providing greater international visibility. To achieve this, the eight IMDEA institutes

created to date have been established as independent foundations, governed by mixed

scientific/business boards, which specialize in different branches of knowledge: Ener-

gy, Food, Materials, Nanoscience, Networks, Social Sciences, Software and Water.

IMDEA has specific characteristics that clearly differentiate it from anything that has

previously been done in this field in Spain. It is a new institutional framework, with a

policy of government non-interference in decision making, a meeting point for public

and private interests and for public and private funding. It is run by professional manage-

ment and has a strong international focus, since it was designed to attract and host

world-renowned scientists. The IMDEA institutes combine the flexibility inherent in pri-

vate-sector management with the rigor and control that is required from an institution that

receives public funds. Independence, freedom, non-intervention, flexibility, agility, respon-

sibility and social relevance, participation and collaboration by all stakeholders, efficien-

cy, accountability, peer-review of results, international level quality, are the characteris-

tics that define them.

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3mission and goals


The mission of the IMDEA institutes is to promote advanced R&D activities so that

their results are useful to society, with the collaboration of: Administrations, universities,

scientists and companies.

The specific goals that help fulfil this mission are:

• To develop its own individual science and technology with a focus on excellence and

international recognition;

• To achieve a critical mass of researchers and world class facilities that attract talent to

Madrid and Spain to work in areas that are a priority for society;

• To recruit and train outstanding human capital;

• To develop an effective business technology transfer model;

• And facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration,

With the ultimate goal of creating a working environment based on knowledge generation.

An essential task for the IMDEA Institutes is to develop a new model for technology trans-

fer to national and international businesses and government agencies. In this new model

the private sector gets included in the design and funding of science from the begining,

and work is being done to include the knowledge of experts in the design, implementation

and evaluation of public sector policies and base them on rigorous analysis of the empiri-

cal evidence available.

As we previously mentioned, companies have been involved from the begining in design-

ing and setting goals, and monitoring the results of the IMDEA institutes. They analyze

their potential from a scientific, economic, business and social standpoint and serve on

the boards of the eight IMDEA foundations. They collaborate with them in many ways,

including cooperation agreements or strategic alliances, or by taking part in research groups

which enhances their competitiveness and allows them to develop their own technology.

In other words, companies are getting involved in the international science market and

they are improving both their ability to compete outside of Spain and the efficiency of their

R&D investment.

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4strategy


To launch the project, the Regional Government decided to create eight independent foun-

dations, which were entrusted with the –private sector-style– management of eight research

institutes, set up around eight research areas that are strategic for Madrid’s society:

• IMDEA Energy Foundation.

• IMDEA Food Foundation.

• IMDEA Materials Foundation.

• IMDEA Nanoscience Foundation.

• IMDEA Networks Foundation.

• IMDEA Social Sciences Foundation.

• IMDEA Software Foundation.

• IMDEA Water Foundation.

Cooperation between the European, national and regional authorities is essential in these

eight publically created foundations, since joint investments have been used to launch

and sustain their operations. This cooperation has taken various forms, including: the

agreement signed by the Madrid regional president, Esperanza Aguirre, and the vice pres-

ident of the European Investment Bank, Carlos da Silva Costa, whereby the EIB grant-

ed a loan of 80 million euros to finance the construction, equipping and operation of

the eight IMDEA institutes; and the agreements between the Comunidad de Madrid

and the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, for the same purpose.

Backing from European funds has been essential, and continues to be so, for the crea-

tion and development of the institutes. In addition to the aforementioned agreement with

the EIB, either directly or indirectly the IMDEA institutes receive funding from EU

Structural and Social Funds and from competitive calls for research projects. As part of

this support, we would like to highlight AMAROUT, a mobility program for researchers

of excellence that aims to contribute to the consolidation and expansion of career prospects

for scientists, and promote research excellence in Europe. The eight institutes can to hire

132 researchers between 2009 and 2013 with the 4.4 million euros granted by this

program.

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As we mentioned at the beginning of this section, another important feature in defining

the strategy is the private-sector nature of management. In this sense, the eight institutes

have opted for the «Anglo-Saxon model of governance» employed by the majority of

world-renowned U.S. research centres, and which follow management principles common

in any private entity, effectiveness, efficiency and profitability.

Also, the selection process used to hire researchers follows the standards established

by the best research centres in the world. This is done through International Open Callswhich are evaluated by the scientific advisory committees of each institute. These

committees are composed of external world-renowned scientists, who guarantee the inter-

national excellence of the candidates. These committees also assess the results of the

contract research staff, and again following the most widespread international prac-

tices, use peer review in the evaluations.

In other words, the eight foundations that manage the eight IMDEA institutes attempt

to create an R&D model focused on meeting the needs of society, and which is built on

three pillars: researchers chosen from the world’s best, Public Administration, and

business sectors. Thus, their statutes establish that their respective boards, which

could be described as «mixed», are made up of representatives from Government, uni-

versities and other research centres, of «internationally renowned scientists from the areas

underlying the purpose of the Foundation», and representatives from «companies that

have a direct or indirect relationship with the sectors related to the foundational objec-

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5.1. Human Resources [18]5.2. Research projects [20]5.3. Collaboration with companies

around the world [22]5.4. Other forms of Technology Transfer [23]5.5. Collaboration with national

and international agencies [24]5.6. Publications [25]5.7. Attracting competitive funding [26]


The Madrid Institutes for Advanced Studies (IMDEA) were created under the PRICIT IV

(Regional Plan for Scientific Research and Technological Innovation 2005-2008) as

research and training centres of excellence. In doing so, not only the available research

capacity was taken into account, but also the current and future needs of our region

associated with technological and industrial change, the emergence of new economic sec-

tors, and the needs of the people of Madrid. They were created between 2006 and 2008

and in a very short period of time have been successful in earning a place among the

best Spanish research centres. The results speak for themselves.

In the creation of these advanced research centres, six public Madrid universities, the

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) and the Centro de Investigaciones

Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT) have had and continue to play

a special role: they signed agreements with the institutes to provide facilities, to make

land available for building their permanent headquarters, to facilitate collaboration between

researchers, and to run specific projects.

5.1. Human Resources

In just four years the eight Madrid Institutes for Advanced Studies have managed to

create a critical mass of leading international researchers. More than 375 scientists from

all levels, senior, junior, postdoctoral, pre-doctoral, visitors, etc. have come from all

over the world to collaborate in this great project. About 220 are PhDs and almost half

of these are foreigners, exactly 47%, of over 30 different nationalities. A very high percen-

tage of the researchers, 51%, that are not yet doctors but are in the process of getting

their PhD also come from abroad. It is remarkable the high proportion of foreign researchers,

nearly half, that come from Europe. The work being done by researchers who are in

training in the IMDEA institutes is important. Not only they are supporting the work of

those who have already gained recognition, in the near future they will fill their shoes.

The support role played by the lab technicians is essential. Without their efforts keep-

ing the scientific installations the researchers use for their work primed and ready

would be very difficult.

If the researcher’s varied origin is surprising, the list of institutions they come from is

even more so. Not only is there a great diversity, but their international standing is remar-

kable. Thus, next to universities like Stanford, National Taiwan, Carnegie Mellon, Cam-

bridge, ETH Zurich, UCLA, Harvard, London School of Economics, Beijing, Berkeley,

Politecnico di Milano, Stockholm, Johns Hopkins, Hanyang (South Korea), Oxford, Queen’s,

Dayton, Imperial College, Central South of China, Sydney, Campinas, MIT, Columbia, Cor-

nell, Deakin (Australia), New York or Budapest, we have research centres such as Microsoft

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A similar combination of diversity and prestige can be found in the table listing the

centres where these researchers obtained their doctorate. In this case, the degree of inter-

nationalization is even greater than for the nationalities of origin, since the percentage

of those who have completed their PhD abroad climbs to 57%.

The following charts illustrate the «level of internationalization» achieved.

Research staff excellence has been achieved through a selection process that is interna-

tional and strictly based on scientific criteria. Thus, shortly after the foundations were cre-

ated the first IMDEA International Call for the recruitment of scientists was published in

The Economist, Science, Nature and other specialist journals and forums, and a computer

Chart 2IMDEA Institutes researchers with a PhD

by country-continent wherethey obtained their PhD

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application was designed for electronic submission of applications and documents. Since

that first call, it continues to be the system used to attract scientists. Proof of how success-

ful this selection process has been is the fact that more than one-third of the researchers at

the IMDEA Institutes –38%– have obtained regional, national or European fellowships

from some of the most demanding groups in their field, if we consider the scientific level of

the candidates. Examples are the Advanced and Starting Grants from the European Research

Council (ERC) or those awarded as part of the Ramón y Cajal program.

Chart 4: Number of fellowships obtained by researchers hired by the IMDEA Institutes (2007-2011)

Before closing this section, we would like to devote a few lines to other essential resource

at the IMDEA Institutes: the administrative staff. The emphasis placed from the outset on

the need for professional management has meant that the selection process has been as

strict as the one used for the researchers. Thanks to their continued support, researchers

have been set free from much of the administrative burden of their projects, their ability to

request funds both inside and outside Spain has been enhanced, and in general, the

Administrative staff has managed a private foundation efficiently, created through a public

initiative and with a high percentage of regional, national and European public funding.

5.2. Research projects

In this time over 80 lines of research have been embarked on and 187 research pro-

jects have been launched. Most of these projects are being funded through competitive

regional, national and European Union funding. Specifically, 29% are funded by the Euro-

pean Commission, 34% come from national sources, 9% are regional, 16% thanks to

contracts with companies, and the remaining 12% are part of agreements and con-

tracts signed with other entities or joint funding from various institutions. In 58% of

the 185 projects a company is involved in some way, whether it be as a member of the

working group, as a financial institution or as a partner organization.

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Chart 5: IMDEA Institutes Research Projects by funding source

Chart 6: Number of IMDEA Institutes research projects from 2007 to 2011

By way of illustration, the IMDEA Energy Institute has signed an agreement with E.ON

for the development of new thermal energy storage systems. They will be based on phase

change materials and will be low cost, highly efficient and have a high cyclability. Also

of note, both for its relevance in the field of health and as a clear example of IMDEA’s close

ties to companies, is a joint IMDEA Food Institute and Puleva Biotech project funded

through the Ministry of Science and Innovation’s CENIT Program to develop a new gen-

eration of foods for weight control and obesity prevention.

Another example of research carried out in the pursuit of better health is the «Magnetic

nanoparticles Against Cancer» project, funded under the European Commission’s 7th Frame-

work Programme, with participation by researchers from the IMDEA Nanoscience Insti-

tute. Another project funded under the 7th Framework Programme of the European Co-

mmission is «FLexible Architecture for Virtualizable wireless future Internet Access) (FLAVIA)»,

where scientists from the IMDEA Networks Institute work alongside some of the field’s most

highly renowned European researchers, as well as with several major companies, with the

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For its part, we would like to mention two Advanced Research Grants from the European Research

Council (ERC), which were awarded to two researchers from the IMDEA Social Sciences Insti-

tute. These are significant considering the amount of funds raised and the fact that very few

grants were awarded to Spanish scientists. In «Ice Shedding» Airbus Operations has entrust-

ed IMDEA Materials Institute with the responsibility to design, manufacture, and validate

innovative multifunctional composite materials to be used as shields against high-velocity ice

impact. They will be used in the rear section of the new A30X, the next generation aircraft to

replace the A320, the standard Airbus jet airliner for short- to medium-range routes.

The usefulness of the research conducted by the institutes in the design of public policies

is visible in the project «Evaluating Economic Policy Instruments for Sustainable Water Mana-

gement in Europe» by IMDEA Water Institute, which seeks to identify economic instru-

ments that make the greatest contribution to achieving the objectives of water-related poli-

cies. This includes, for example, flood protection or ways to reduce the uncertainty of water

availability. In an area useful for businesses, Government and society in general, we high-

light the participation of the IMDEA Software Institute in the project «Network of Excellence

on Engineering Secure Future Internet Software Services (NESSoS)», funded by the EU’s

7th Framework Programme, in which the main European academic and industrial engi-

neering centres are creating a community to do long-term research and development work

on software-based services and systems that will provide security guarantees to its users.

5.3. Collaboration with companies around the world

Private companies collaborate with IMDEA institutes, engaging in research that enhances

their competitiveness and allows them to develop their own technology.

The list of companies that team up in one way or the other with the IMDEA Institutes is

long and select. It includes many of the most innovative national and international firms.

Of the over one hundred participating companies we would like to mention a few firms

such as Pharmamar, Puleva Biotech, Canal de Isabel II, E.ON, Siemens, Grupo Abengoa,

Acciona, Repsol YPF, Gamesa, Aernnova, Konarka, EADS, Intel Ireland, Airbus Spain,

Rolls Royce, NEC, Telefónica, Alcatel Lucent or British Telecom.

This close cooperation with the business world is but one of the ways in which progress

is being made toward fulfilling the objective of creating an efficient model of technolo-

gy transfer. Working so closely with leading and with local companies creates a win-win

situation. Businesses gain access to the technology that is developed, which is the

basis of their competitiveness, and the IMDEA institutes will be doing science and

technology knowing that they will have a high economic and social impact.

Besides working with firms from around the world, in a very short time the IMDEA insti-

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meetings have been held with companies which were considering setting up operations in

Madrid, and the Institutes have been able to demonstrate how the excellence of the scien-

tists and the relevance of the research lines developed in our region make it very attractive.

5.4. Other forms of Technology Transfer

Development of this new transfer model is also being supported by way of applications

to register patents and software and the creation of spin-offs and start-ups.

To date the eight IMDEA institutes have 13 patent applications granted or pending.

Another important form of technology transfer is the commercialization of the technology

developed at the Institute. Given the controversy around software patents (and the impos-

sibility of filing software patents in Europe) the Institute is combining the protection of

its intellectual property (for example, two software registrations are currently being

completed with INRIA and Microsoft Research) with other innovative business models,

such as those based on open-source or free software licenses, together with the licens-

ing of such technology and the creation of technology-based companies. In this line

the Institute is actively working on the commercialization of the ActionGUI technology

developed by its Modeling Lab.

Worth mentioning is the registration which is currently underway for a patent entitled

«System and submersible optical sensor for continuous analysis of nitrate concentra-

tion in water», which is developing a probe to measure the concentration of nitrate in

freshwater, seawater and wastewater, using spectrophotometric techniques.

The applications for the patents «Process to improve the compression strength of PBO

fibres and the PBO fibres obtained by this process» and «Method to design a synthetic

fibres cable» are important for their scientific and technological relevance and also because

of the direct relationship they have with the activity of the co-applicant company. The

first protects the discovery of a nitrogen plasma treatment that improves the compressive

strength of very high strength polymeric fibres by 40%, significantly expanding their

potential applications in cables and other structural elements. The second is mainly used

to optimize the mechanical behaviour of polymer fibre cables when subjected to cyclic

loading by determining the stress state.

Also noteworthy is the patent entitled «Method for reducing energy consumption in a net-

work by minimizing the number of active nodes», which proposes a methodology to reduce

the number of active nodes involved in any given communication and, thus, the energy

needed. This mechanism has shown excellent results in different tests and has signifi-

cantly surpassed other solutions in terms of throughput and energy use, with reduc-

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tions of up to 40%. An industrial partner also has been directly involved in the research

leading up to this patent application and its subsequent registration.

As part of a co-ownership scheme with the CSIC a patent application has been filed for

a novel material: «Organic/inorganic microporous crystalline material based on alka-

line-earth cations, preparation method and uses».

Also in co-ownership, this time with the Instituto de Ciencias de Materiales de Barcelona

(CSIC), a patent application has filed for «position sensitive photodetectors, creation process

and procedure for measuring the photodetector response». This is Nanotechnology at

the service of photodetector production. These devices function as light transducers that

generate an electrical signal in response to the optical radiation hitting the sensor surface.

As a result of cooperation between IMDEA institutes and the Indian company Sunborne Ener-

gy Technologies, and within the framework of an R&D project funded by the Ministry of New

and Renewable Energy of India, both institutions have filed in August 2011 a joint interna-

tional patent entitled “Absorber for concentrated solar power system” that develops a new

concept of solar receiver with volumetric absorber for the production of hot air above 700 ºC

with application to solar thermal power plants.

During 2011 one IMDEA institute has been working on the business plan for starting up

two companies that will manufacture nanoparticles and build and commercialize advanced

instrumentation for nanomagnetism, respectively.

5.5. Collaboration with national and international agencies

The IMDEA institutes have dedicated a great deal of their efforts to promote cooperation

with the different levels of Government and leading national and international organization.

Among them we would like to highlight: the World Bank, the International Labour Organi-

zation (ILO), the United Nations Equipment Fund (UNEF), the Organization for Economic

Cooperation and Development (OECD), the Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF), the Inter-

American Development Bank (IDB), the European Commission, the European Central Bank,

the European Investment Bank (EIB), the Spanish National Securities Market Commis-

sion (CNMV), the Group of Economic Advisers of the European Securities and Markets

Authority (ESMA), the International Energy Agency and Madrid Networks, among others.

They have also done consultancy work for the Governments of countries such as Saudi

Arabia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, France, Indonesia, Italy, Jordan, Mexico, Mozambique,

Namibia, Peru, United Kingdom, Turkey, Uganda, etc., on topics as diverse as energy,

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This collaboration with public agencies is helping to define public policies in important

fields of social welfare such as wind energy, financial markets, corporate site location,

water use, the relationship between health and diet, or developing more reliable software.

5.6. Publications

The IMDEA institutes have published articles in the world’s leading scientific journals.

The total number of articles published in journals with an impact factor, complete

books and book chapters published in the last four years by scientists hired by IMDEA

is 904. These articles have appeared in such prestigious journals as Physical ReviewLetters, Science, ACM TOPLAS, Scientific American, IEEE Network, or Nature.

The graphs below show the evolution over time for the number of publications and the

citations they have received (according to the information collected on the web of

knowledge and the Annual Reports of IMDEA institutes).

Chart 7: Publications by IMDEA institutes researchers (2007-2011)

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As we mentioned when referring to the philosophy behind the creation of the eight IMDEA

institutes and their daily functioning, public and private initiatives interact to maximize

the positive aspects of each.

In this regard, the graphs below provide a view of how successful public-private fun-

ding has been. A relatively high percentage of competitive funds have been obtained by

the eight IMDEA institutes, much higher than what is usual in public research centres

in Spain and on a pair with the levels recorded by the most prestigious research centres

in the world. Although significant changes can be seen from year to year, the average

for all of the institutes in their five years of existence is close to 30%.

Chart 9: Competitive funding obtained for current expenditure between 2007 and 2011 by the eight IMDEA institutes as a percentage of total amount of current expenditure

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6 public recognition


Scientists at the IMDEA institutes have received significant public recognition. These

include:

• The Prize for Excellence in Sustainable Urban Water Management from the Internatio-

nal Water Association was obtained by the Consolider Tragua program.

• The International Solar Energy Society’s Farrington Daniels Award 2009, the most

prestigious international recognition for researchers working in the field of solar

energy, was awarded to Dr. Manuel Romero.

• Another major award from the scientific and business field is the International Dairy

Federation Award, granted to Dr. Manuela Juárez for her contribution to improving the

competitiveness of the dairy sector in the international arena.

• Other international awards include the designation of Dr. José Marín as one of the eight

members of the Group of Economic Advisers of the European Securities and Markets Autho-

rity (ESMA), and Dr. Andrés Rodríguez Pose as a member of the British Academy.

• For his part, Dr. Rodolfo Miranda was appointed fellow of the American Physical

Society, and Dr. Nazario Martín obtained the Dupont Award of Science in 2007.

• Dr. Javier Llorca was elected to the Royal Academy of Sciences of Zaragoza (Physics sec-

tion) in 2008 and in 2009 he received the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Research

Award.

• In 2006, Dr. Nick Maxemchuck received the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Com-

munications Award the most important international award in the field of networking.

• We will conclude this brief list of awards and appointments with Dr. Manuel Hermenegildo

Salinas’s election as a member in 2010 of the European Academy, a nongovernmen-

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7 science and society


The presence of the IMDEA institutes in the media is frequent and their research has

earned important mentions in the national and international press. For example, the

article Price support in the stock market, published in the IMDEA Working PapersSeries in Economics and Social Sciences, was featured in The Financial Times and received

extensive coverage in the national business press. Furthermore, When local interactiondoes not suffice, published in the same series, has received extensive media coverage

worldwide.

The study 88 pollutants detected in the rivers of Madrid had a similar impact, and it was

the subject of several articles in newspapers such as El Mundo and La Razón, and was

covered on the radio, Onda Cero, Punto Radio, given the social relevance of the topic.

For its part, the study, Is Content Publishing in BitTorrent Altruistic or Profit Driven?has been the subject of over 170 press articles and news items on radio and television.

Examples of national media that picked up the story are TVE, Antena 3, ABC, El País,Público, COPE, and Cadena Ser. It provided an important conclusion to the social debate

on piracy: the distribution of copyright protected files using BitTorrent through major web-

sites, such as The Pirate Bay, is a monopoly of just a few users, about a hundred.

Among the activities the IMDEA institutes have organized to publicize their work to

society and explain the importance of science for general welfare, are workshops, tours,

open houses, conferences and roundtables. The most notable initiatives include the chil-

dren’s Kamishibai workshops on water as part of the celebrations of World Water Day (March

22, 2010); their participation in the 2010 BIO International Convention; or the events organ-

ized in the various editions of the Madrid’s Science Week, the madri+d Science and Tech-

nology Forums and the “Madrid is Science” Fair.

IMDEA institutes have also been present in the Researchers’ Night, a European initia-

tive coordinated by the Fundación madri+d para el Conocimiento. Its aim is to bring sci-

entific work closer to the public and the Foundation organized a round table in which

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The event took place on Friday September 24, 2010 at Medialab-Prado, a Madrid Local

Government building dedicated to the production, research and dissemination of digi-

tal culture. In this panel, moderated by physicist Jorge Wagensberg, a well known researcher

and popular science writer, the directors of the IMDEA institutes responded to ques-

tions from the moderator and the public about: the reason for their scientific vocation,

how science is done in Spain and abroad, their careers, and the importance of science

for society.

With the same aim of making society aware of the scientific work conducted at the IMDEA

institutes, in 2009 and 2010 the journals of the Confederación Empresarial de Madrid

(CEIM) and the Fundación madri+d para el conocimiento (Notiweb) published a series

interviews with the directors of the eight Institutes. In the interviews, apart from descri-

bing the creation of these advanced research centres and what makes them special on

the national scientific scene, the heads of the Institutes described the main lines of

research, with special emphasis on those that would have the greatest and most imme-

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Some of the scientific installations of the IMDEA institutes that are already operative or

will be operative once the permanent headquarters have been occupied are the Nutri-

tional Genomics Platform, the Nanofabrication Centre, the Telecommunications Ser-

vice Analysis Platform or the GLEEBLE 3800 thermo-mechanical simulator for pro-

cessing metallic materials.

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Dr. Michalis Agoras(IMDEA Materials Institute)PhD: University of Pennsylvania,USA.Previous position: University ofPennsylvania, USA.Research interests: Theoretical andapplied mechanics. Dr. Nicolás Agraït

de la Puente(IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: UNED, Spain.Dual appointment: UniversidadAutónoma de Madrid, Spain.Research interests: Electrical trans-port in nanosystems.

Dr. Marco Ajmone Marsan(IMDEA Networks Institute)PhD: Budapest University of Tech-nology and Economics (honoriscausa), Hungary.Dual appointment: Politecnico diTorino, Italy.Previous position: IEIIT-CNR, Italy.Research interests: High-speed wire-less and all-optical networks, ener-gy efficiency, modeling and perfor-mance evaluation.Dr. Marc Anderson

(IMDEA Energy Institute)PhD: Johns Hopkins University,USA.Dual appointment: Wisconsin Uni-versity, USA.Research interests: Electrochemi-cal and photoelectrochemical stu-dies related to high power batteries;and high energy ultracapacitors andsolar energy systems.

Dr. Ricardo Arias Gonzálezde la Aleja (IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Universidad Complutense deMadrid, Spain.Previous position: Centro Nacionalde Biotecnología (CSIC), Spain.Research interests: Molecular andcell Biophysics.

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. Dr. Albert Banchs (IMDEA Networks Institute)PhD: Universidad Politécnica deCataluña, Spain.Dual appointment: Universidad Car-los III de Madrid, Spain.Research interests: Performanceevaluation and resource allocationin wireless networks.

Dr. Anindya Banerjee(IMDEA Software Institute)PhD: Kansas State University, USA.Previous position: Kansas State Uni-versity, USA.Research interests: Program logics,analysis and verification; concurren-cy; and abstract interpretation.

Dr. Gilles Barthe (IMDEA Software Institute)PhD: University of Manchester, UK.Previous position: INRIA Sophia-Antipolis Méditerranée, France.Research interests: Programminglanguages; software security; cryp-tography; and foundations of com-puter science.

Dr. Pedro Berliner (IMDEA Water Institute)PhD: Ben Gurion University of theNegev, Israel.Previous position: Ben Gurion Uni-versity of the Negev, Israel.Research interests: Water movementin the soil-plant-atmosphere conti-nuum, measurement and modeling.

Dr. Ana Berreteaga Escudero (IMDEA Water Institute)PhD: Universidad del País Vasco,Spain.Dual appointment: Universidad deAlcalá, Spain.Research interests: Geothermal.

Dr. Lorena Betancor Dutrenit (IMDEA Food Institute)PhD: Universidad Autónoma deMadrid, Spain.Previous position: University of Cam-bridge, UK.Research interests: Functional foodand nutrigenomics; and enzymaticmarkers and obesity.

Dr. Somjeet Biswas (IMDEA Materials Institute)PhD: Indian Institute of Science,India.Previous position: Indian Instituteof Science, India.Research interests: Advanced mag-nesium alloys.

Dr. Carl Boehlert (IMDEA Materials Institute)PhD: Dayton University, USA.Visiting Scientist from: MichiganState University, USA.Research interests: High-tempera-ture alloys.



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Dr. Alberto Bollero Real (IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Technical University of Dres-den, Germany.Previous position: CIEMAT, Spain.Research interests: Spintronics andbiomedical applications.

Dr. Ana Karina BoltesEspínola (IMDEA Water Institute)PhD: Universidad de Alcalá, Spain.Dual appointment: Universidad deAlcalá, Spain.Research interests: Environmentalbiotechnology.

Dr. Pierre Antoine Bouit (until November 2010)(IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Ecole Normal Superieur-Lyon,France.Previous position: Ecole NormalSuperieur-Lyon, France.Research interests: Organic synthe-sis.

Dr. Fulvio Brunetti (IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Università degli Studi di Tri-este, Italy.Previous position: University of Ca-lifornia (Santa Barbara), USA.Research interests: Semiconductingpolymers.

Dr. Juan Caballero Bayerri (IMDEA Software Institute)PhD: Carnegie Mellon University,USA.Previous position: University of Ca-lifornia (Berkeley), USA.Research interests: Computer secu-rity; software and network securi-ty; and malware analysis.

Dr. Juan Cabanillas González (IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Imperial College London, UK.Previous position: Politecnico diMilano, Italy.Research interests: Pump probe andphotoinduced absoption spectros-copies.

Dr. Julio Camarero de Diego (IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Universidad Autónoma deMadrid, Spain.Dual appointment: UniversidadAutónoma de Madrid, Spain.Research interests: Growth andcharacterization of magnetic nano-materials.

Dr. David Canevet (IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: CIMA Laboratory - Universityof Angers, France.Previous position: CIMA Laborato-ry - University of Angers, France.

Dr. Francisco Carreño Conde (IMDEA Water Institute)PhD: Universidad Complutense deMadrid, Spain.Dual appointment: Universidad ReyJuan Carlos, Spain.Research interests: Remote sensingand GIS techniques.


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Dr. Mariano Carrión Vázquez (IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Universidad Autónoma deMadrid, Spain.Dual appointment: Instituto Cajal-CSIC, Spain.Research interests: Mechanical pro-porties of proteins.

Dr. Santiago Casado Rojo (IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Universidad de Cantabria,Spain.Previous position: Universidad deCantabria, Spain.Research interests: AFM / Fluores-cence Microscopy of biomembranes.

Dr. Raj Chari (IMDEA Social Sciences Institute)PhD: Queen’s University, Canada.Visiting scientist from: Trinity Col-lege Dublin, Ireland.Research interests: Comparativepublic policy; interest groups; andpolitical parties and electoralprocesses.

Dr. N. Sridhara Chary (IMDEA Water Institute)PhD: Jawaharlal Nehru Technolo-gical University, India.Previous position: National TaiwanUniversity (Taipei), Taiwan.Research interests: Volatiles orga-nics in the environmental matrix.

Dr. Manuel Clavel (IMDEA Software Institute)PhD: Universidad de Navarra, Spain.Dual appointment: UniversidadComplutense de Madrid, Spain.Research interests: Formal methods;tools for rigorous software modelingand validation.

Dr. Dolores Corella Piquer (IMDEA Food Institute)PhD: Universidad de Valencia, Spain.Dual appointment: Universidad deValencia, Spain.Previous position: University ofTufts, USA.Research interests: Nutrigenomics;genetic epidemiology; nutrigeneticsplataform: plataform for genetics-based dietary intervention studies.



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Dr. Juan M. CoronadoCarneiro (IMDEA Energy Institute)PhD: Universidad Complutense deMadrid, Spain.Previous position: CIEMAT, Spain.Research interests: Thermochemi-cal and photocatalytic processes forthe production of sustainable fuels;the generation of hydrogen and thevalorization of CO2.

Dr. Jon Crowcroft (IMDEA Networks Institute)PhD: University College London, UK.Visiting scientist from: University ofCambridge, UK.Research interests: Multimediacommunication, social networks,energy efficient networking, delaytolerant networks.

Dr. Yuwen Cui (IMDEA Materials Institute)PhD: Central South University,China.Previous position: Ohio State Uni-versity, USA.Research interests: Computationalalloy design.

Dr. Lidia Ángeles Daimiel(IMDEA Food Institute)PhD: Universidad Autónoma deMadrid, Spain.Previous position: Hospital Univer-sitario Ramón y Cajal, Spain.Research interests: Nutritionalgenomics: microRNAs and lipidmetabolism.

Dr. Aravind Dasari (IMDEA Materials Institute)PhD: Sydney University, Australia.Previous position: Sydney Universi-ty, Australia.Research interests: Multifunctionalnanocomposites.

Dr. Alberto Dávalos Herrero (IMDEA Food Institute)PhD: Universidad Complutense deMadrid, Spain.Previous position: Yale University,USA / New York University, USA.Research interests: Nutritionalgenomics: microRNAs and lipidmetabolism.

Dr. Irene de BustamanteGutiérrez (IMDEA Water Institute)PhD: Universidad Complutense deMadrid, Spain.Dual appointment: Universidad deAlcalá, Spain.Research interests: Hidrogeology.

Dr. Víctor Antonio de la Peña O’Shea (IMDEA Energy Institute)PhD: Instituto de Catálisis yPetroleoquímica (CSIC), Spain / Uni-versidad Autónoma de Madrid,Spain.Previous position: Universidad deBarcelona, Spain.

Research interests: Photocatalyticreduction of CO2; and Hydrogen pro-duction by water photo-splitting andfossil fuels decarbonisation.


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Dr. Gustavo de Veciana (IMDEA Networks Institute)PhD: University of California (Berke-ley), USA.Visiting scientist from: University ofTexas (Austin), USA.Research interests: Networks analy-sis and design, pervasive compu-ting, applied probability, queueingand information theory.

Dr. Juan Luis Delgado de la Cruz (IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Universidad de Castilla-LaMancha, Spain.Previous position: Universidad Com-plutense de Madrid, Spain.Research interests: Desing and syn-thesis of molecular nanostructuresand nanomaterial.

Dr. Marie Demuez (IMDEA Energy Institute)PhD: Institut National des SciencesAppliquées (Toulouse), France.Previous position: University of Ca-lifornia (Berkeley), USA.Research interests: Biosynthesis ofthe metallocluster located at thenitrogenase active site for the opti-mization of hydogen production.

Dr. Raúl Díaz Delgado (IMDEA Energy Institute)PhD: Universidad de Barcelona,Spain.Previous position: University of Ca-lifornia (Berkeley), USA.Research interests: Fundamentalresearch on advanced batteries andsupercapacitors for electrochemicalenergy storage.

Dr. Javier Dufour Andía (IMDEA Energy Institute)PhD: Universidad Complutense deMadrid, Spain.Dual appointment: Universidad ReyJuan Carlos, Spain.Research interests: Energy systemsanalysis; life cycle assessment; simu-lation and optimization of processes;and economical estimations.

Dr. Carlos Echevarría Erasun (IMDEA Energy Institute)PhD: Wisconsin University, USA.Previous position: CBS-KNAW, theNetherlands.Research interests: Biosynthesis ofthe metallocluster located at thenitrogenase active site for the opti-mization of hydogen production.

Dr. Marina Egea González (IMDEA Software Institute)PhD: Universidad Complutense deMadrid, Spain.Previous position: ETH Zurich,Switzerland.Research interests: Model-drivensoftware development; and securi-ty-desing modeling languages.

Dr. Andrés ErosaEtchebehere (IMDEA Social Sciences Institute)PhD: University of Minnesota, USA.Previous position: University ofToronto, Canada.Research interests: Monetary poli-cy; public finance; and productivi-ty analysis.

Dr. Javier Esparza Estaun (IMDEA Software Institute)PhD: Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain.Visiting scientist from: TechnischeUniversität München, Germany.Research interests: Formal methodsfor high-level software; and verifica-tion of probabilistic systems.



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Dr. Abraham Esteve Núñez (IMDEA Water Institute)PhD: Universidad de Granada,Spain.Dual appointment: Universidad deAlcalá, Spain.Research interests: Environmentalbiotechnology, bioelectrogenesis.

Dr. Antonio Fernández Anta (IMDEA Networks Institute)PhD: University of Louisiana(Lafayette), USA.Previous position: Universidad ReyJuan Carlos, Spain.Research interests: Communicationsand Networks; distributed compu-ting; algorithms; and discrete andApplied Mathematics.

Dr. Luisa Fuster Pérez (IMDEA Social Sciences Institute)PhD: University of Minnesota, USA.Previous position: University ofWestern Ontario, Canada.Research interests: Macroecono-mics; public finance; and laboureconomics.

Dr. John Gallagher (IMDEA Software Institute)PhD: Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.Dual appointment: University ofRoskilde, Denmark.Research interests: Program trans-formation and generation; programanalysis; and constraint logic pro-gramming.

Dr. Pierre Ganty (IMDEA Software Institute)PhD: Université Libre de Bruxelles,Belgium.Previous position: University of Ca-lifornia (Los Angeles), USA.Research interests: Verification ofreactive, distributed and infinitestate systems; and logic andautomata theory.

Dr. Eloy García Calvo (IMDEA Water Institute)PhD: Universidad Complutense deMadrid, Spain.Dual appointment: Universidad deAlcalá, Spain.Research interests: Chemical engi-neering.

Dr. María García de la Banda (IMDEA Software Institute)PhD: Universidad Politécnica deMadrid, Spain / Complutense deMadrid, Spain.Visiting scientist from: Monash Uni-versity, Australia.

Research interests: Constraint/Logicprogramming languages; combina-torial solving and optimization; andbioinformatics.

Dr. Nicolas D. Georganas (Demised on July 27th 2010)(IMDEA Networks Institute)PhD: University of Ottawa, Cana-da / National Technical Universityof Athens (honoris causa), Greece/ Technische Universität Darmstadt(honoris causa), Germany.

Visiting scientist from: University ofOttawa, Canada.Research interests: Multimediacommunications; collaborative vir-tual environments; and intelligentinternet sensors and appliances.


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Dr. Johannes Gierschner (IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: University of Tübingen, Ger-many.Previous position: University ofTübingen, Germany.Research interests: Optical spec-troscopy of polyconjugated materials.

Dr. Enrico Gnecco (IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: University of Genova, Italy.Previous position: University ofBasel, Switzerland.Research interests: Nanotribology.

Dr. Carlos Mario GómezGómez (IMDEA Water Institute)PhD: Universidad de Alcalá, Spain.Dual appointment: Universidad deAlcalá, Spain.Research interests: Water econo-mics.

Dr. María José Gómez Ramos (IMDEA Water Institute)PhD: Universidad de Almería, Spain.Previous position: Universidad deAlmería, Spain.Research interests: Organics Pollu-tants.

Dr. José González Aguilar (IMDEA Energy Institute)PhD: Universidad de Cantabria, Spain.Previous position: École des Minesde Paris, France.Research interests: Solar concen-trating systems; solar thermal powerplants; and solar fuels and chemi-cals.

Dr. Carlos González (IMDEA Materials Institute)PhD: Universidad Politécnica deMadrid, Spain.Dual appointment: UniversidadPolitécnica de Madrid, Spain.Research interests: Structural com-posites.

Dr. Teresa González Pérez (IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Universidad de Santiago deCompostela, Spain.Previous position: University ofBasel, Switzerland.Research interests: Electrical trans-port properties of single molecules.

Dr. Sergey Gorinsky (IMDEA Networks Institute)PhD: University of Texas (Austin),USA.Previous position: Washington Uni-versity (St. Louis), USA.Research interests: Computer net-working and distributed systems.

Dr. Alexey Gotsman (IMDEA Software Institute)PhD: University of Cambridge, UK.Previous position: University of Cam-bridge, UK.Research interests: Software veri-fication: automated verification forreal-world concurrent software.



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Dr. Daniel Granados Ruiz (IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Universidad Autónoma deMadrid, Spain.Previous position: Toshiba ResearchEurope Ltd. Cambridge, UK.Research interests: Optical pro-perties of semiconducting nanos-tructures.

Dr. Daniel Hedin (IMDEA Software Institute)PhD: Chalmers University of Tech-nology, Sweden.Previous position: Chalmers Univer-sity of Technology, Sweden.Research interests: Static analysisof programs; formal verication of pro-gram analyses.

Dr. Manuel Hermenegildo (IMDEA Software Institute)PhD: The University of Texas(Austin), USA.Dual appointment: UniversidadPolitécnica de Madrid, Spain.Previous position: University of NewMexico, USA.Research interests: Abstract inter-pretation; programming languagedesign; and parallelizing compilers.

Dr. Beatriz Hernández Juárez (IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Universidad Autónoma deMadrid, Spain.Previous position: University ofHamburg, Germany.Research interests: Hybrid systemsbased on semiconductor nanoparti-cles.

Dr. Berta Herrero de la Fuente (IMDEA Materials Institute)PhD: Universidad Complutense deMadrid, Spain.Previous position: PERA (Madrid),Spain.Research interests: Polymernanocomposites.

Dr. Elías Herrero Galán (IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Universidad Complutense deMadrid, Spain.Previous position: Universidad Com-plutense de Madrid, Spain.Research interests: Biomachinesand manipulation of macromole-cules.


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Dr. Borja Ibarra Urruela (IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Universidad Autónoma Madrid,Spain / Centro Nacional de Biotec-nología (CSIC), Spain.Previous position: Centro Nacionalde Biotecnología (CSIC), Spain.Research interests: Optical andmagnetic tweezers.

Dr. Diego Iribarren Lorenzo (IMDEA Energy Institute)PhD: Universidad de Santiago deCompostela, Spain.Previous position: Universidad deSantiago de Compostela, Spain.Research interests: Analysis of ener-gy production systems from selec-ted biomass sources.

Dr. Prabhas Jana (IMDEA Energy Institute)PhD: National Chemical Laboratory,India.Previous position: CNL-PUNE,India.Research interests: Hydrogen produc-tion by fossil fuels decarbonisation.

Dr. Antoine Jérusalem (IMDEA Materials Institute)PhD: Massachusets Institute ofTechnology, USA.Previous position: MassachusetsInstitute of Technology, USA.Research interests: Computationalmechanics of materials.

Dr. Manuela Juárez Iglesias (IMDEA Food Institute)PhD: Universidad Complutense deMadrid, Spain.Dual appointment: Consejo Supe-rior de Investigaciones Científicas,Spain.Research interests: Design anddevelopment of functional foods.

Dr. Jeffrey D. Kentor (IMDEA Social Sciences Institute)PhD: Johns Hopkins University, USA.Previous position: University ofUtah, USA.Research interests: Uncovering thebasis of long-term social change andsocial order with special attention torelations of power and inequality.

Dr. Nasiruddin Khan (IMDEA Food Institute)PhD:Universidad de Barcelona, Spain.Previous position: Universidad deBarcelona, Spain.Research interests: Design anddevelopment of functional foods:from cells to humans; and micronu-trients and cardiovascular disease.

Dr. Boris Koepf (IMDEA Software Institute)PhD: ETH Zurich, Switzerland.Previous position: Max Planck Insti-tute for Software Systems, Germany.Research interests: Informationsecurity; side-channel attacks; quan-titative information flow; verifica-tion; and algorithms.

Dr. Marwan M. Krunz (IMDEA Networks Institute)PhD: Michigan State University,USA.Visiting scientist from: University ofArizona, USA.Research interests: Optimal resourceallocation, adaptive control, and dis-tributed protocol design.



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Dr. José Félix Kukielka (IMDEA Networks Institute)PhD: University of California (Berke-ley), USA.Previous position: Universidad Car-los III de Madrid, Spain.Research interests: Widebandaccess; QoS in wireless networks;service-aware wireless routing.

Dr. César kunz (IMDEA Software Institute)PhD: École des Mines de Paris,France.Previous position: INRIA Sophia-Antipolis Méditerranée, France.Research interests: Program verifi-cation and transformation; compi-lers; optimizations; and proof ca-rrying code.

Dr. Edmund Leary (IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: University of Liverpool, UK.Previous position: University of Li-verpool, UK.Research interests: Nanoelectronics.

Dr. Pedro Letón García (IMDEA Water Institute)PhD: Universidad de Alcalá, Spain.Dual appointment: Universidad deAlcalá, Spain.Research interests: Chemical engi-neering.

Dr. Ruy Ley Wild (IMDEA Software Institute)PhD: Carnegie Mellon University, USA.Previous position: Carnegie MellonUniversity, USA.Research interests: Programminglanguages: semantics, type theory,concurrency, and self-adjustingcomputation.

Dr. Jun Li (IMDEA Networks Institute)PhD: University of California, USA.Visiting scientist from: University ofOregon, USA.Research interests: Networkingarchitecture and protocols; and net-work security.

Dr. Francisco Javier LilloRamos (IMDEA Water Institute)PhD: University of Leeds, UK.Dual appointment: Universidad ReyJuan Carlos, Spain.Research interests: Environmentalgeochemistry, hydrochemistry andwater quality.

Dr. Javier Llorca (IMDEA Materials Institute)PhD: Universidad Politécnica deMadrid, Spain.Dual appointment: UniversidadPolitécnica de Madrid, Spain.Research interests: Mechanics ofmaterials.

Dr. José López Carrascosa (IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Universidad Autónoma deMadrid, Spain.Dual appointment: Centro Nacional deBiotecnología (CSIC), Spain.Research interests: Nanobiosys-tems: biomachines and manipula-tion of macromolecules.


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Dr. Aitziber LópezCortajarena (IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Universidad del País Vasco,Spain.Previous position: Yale University,USA.Research interests: Protein engi-neering and biofunctional nano-structures.

Dr. Ana López Cudero (IMDEA Energy Institute)PhD: Universidad Autónoma deMadrid, Spain.Previous position: Universidad deAlicante, Spain.Research interests: Electrochemi-cal energy storage systems for sta-tionary and transport applications.

Dr. Amadeo López Vázquezde Parga (IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Universidad Autónoma deMadrid, Spain.Dual appointment: UniversidadAutónoma de Madrid, Spain.Research interests: Graphene growthand spectroscopy with low-T STM.

Dr. Pedro López-García (IMDEA Software Institute)PhD: Universidad Politécnica deMadrid, Spain.Dual appointment: Consejo Supe-rior de Investigaciones Científicas,Spain.

Previous position: UniversidadPolitécnica de Madrid, Spain.Research interests: Automatic ve-rification of complex programproperties; embedded systems;performance debugging; and para-llelization.

Dr. María Luengo-Prado (IMDEA Social Sciences Institute)PhD: Brown University, USA.Visiting scientist from: Northeast-ern University Boston, USA.Research interests: Consumptiontheory; Macroeconomics; and pu-blic economics.

Dr. Larry Luer (IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: University of Tübingen, Ger-many.Previous position: Politecnico diMilano, Italy.Research interests: Femtosecondspectroscopy on molecular systems.

Dr. Feng Luo (IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Peking University, China.Previous position: Peking Univer-sity, China.Research interests: Growth andNanostructuring. Magneto electricthin films.

Dr. Alexander Malkis (IMDEA Software Institute)PhD: University of Freiburg, Germany.Previous position: Albert-LudwigsUniversity of Freiburg, Germany.Research interests: Modularity; pri-vacy and security; concurrency;abstract interpretation; assume-guarantee reasoning.



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Dr. Vincenzo Mancuso (IMDEA Networks Institute)PhD: University of Palermo, Italy.Previous position: INRIA (SophiaAntipolis), France.Research interests: Network proto-cols; QoS; wireless networks; greenIT; and performance analysis. Dr. Rebeca Marcilla García

(IMDEA Energy Institute)PhD: Universidad del País Vasco,Spain.Previous position: CIDETEC, Spain.Research interests: Development ofnew electrolytes based on ionic li-quids for its application in advancedelectrochemical energy storagedevices.

Dr. José María MarínVigueras (IMDEA Social Sciences Institute)PhD: University of Pennsylvania,USA.Previous position: Universidad Pom-peu Fabra, Spain.Research interests: Finance.

Dr. Mark Marron (IMDEA Software Institute)PhD: University of New Mexico,USA.Previous position: Microsoft Researchin Seattle, USA.Research interests: Program analy-sis, optimization and error detec-tion; and static and dynamic heapanalysis.

Dr. Fernando Martín García (IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Universidad Autónoma deMadrid, Spain.Dual appointment: UniversidadAutónoma de Madrid, Spain.Research interests: Modelling phy-sical properties of nanostructures.


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Dr. Nazario Martín León (IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Universidad Complutense deMadrid, Spain.Dual appointment: UniversidadComplutense de Madrid, Spain.Research interests: MolecularNanoscience.

Dr. Ignacio Martín-Bragado (IMDEA Materials Institute)PhD: Universidad de Valladolid,Spain.Previous position: Synopsys, Inc.(Mountain View, CA), USA.Research interests: Atomistic mate-rials modeling.

Dr. Giselle Martínez Noël (IMDEA Energy Institute)PhD: Universidad Nacional de Marde Plata, Argentina.Previous position: University of Ca-lifornia (Berkeley), USA.Research interests: Biosynthesis ofthe metallocluster located at thenitrogenase active site for the opti-mization of hydrogen production.

Dr. Laurent Mauborgne (IMDEA Software Institute)PhD: École normale supérieure(Paris), France.Previous position: École normalesupérieure (Paris), France.Research interests: Program analy-sis; abstract interpretation anddomains; and symbolic represen-tations.

Dr. Nicholas F. Maxemchuk (IMDEA Networks Institute)PhD: University of Pennsylvania, USA.Dual appointment: Columbia Uni-versity (New York), USA.Previous position: AT&T ResearchLabs.Research interests: Random codingnetwork services; network QoS; andtraffic engineering in wireless networks.

Dr. Nikolai Mikuszeit (IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: University of Hamburg, Ger-many.Previous position: University ofHamburg, Germany.Research interests: Modelling mag-netic nanostructures.

Dr. Srdjan Milenkovic (IMDEA Materials Institute)PhD: State University of Campinas,Brasil.Previous position: Johannes KeplerUniversity Linz, Austria.Research interests: Solidificationand casting.

Dr. Rodolfo Miranda (IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Universidad Autónoma deMadrid, Spain.Dual appointment: UniversidadAutónoma de Madrid, Spain.Research interests: Sacanning probemicroscopies and surfaces.

Dr. Jon Molina Aldareguía (IMDEA Materials Institute)PhD: Cambridge University, UK.Previous position: CEIT (SanSebastián), Spain.Research interests: Micro and Nano-Mechanics.



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Dr. José Francisco MoralesCaballero (IMDEA Software Institute)PhD: Universidad Politécnica deMadrid, Spain.Previous position: Universidad Com-plutense de Madrid, Spain.

Research interests: Constraint logicprogramming; multiparadigm lan-guages; abstract machines; andnative code generation.

Dr. Juan José MorenoNavarro (IMDEA Software Institute)PhD: Universidad Politécnica deMadrid, Spain.Dual appointment: UniversidadPolitécnica de Madrid, Spain.

Research interests: Component-based systems; specification andmodeling languages; and declara-tive programming.

Dr. Alan Mycroft (IMDEA Software Institute)PhD: Edinburgh University, Ireland.Visiting scientist from: University ofCambridge, UK.Research interests: Semantics ofprogramming languages optimisingcompilers; and static analysis.

Dr. Aleks Nanevski (IMDEA Software Institute)PhD: Carnegie Mellon University, USA.Previous position: MicrosoftResearch (Cambridge), UK.Research interests: Specificationand verification for programminglanguages; and theorem proving,decision procedures.

Dr. María Francisca NaranjoPérez de León (IMDEA Water Institute)PhD:Laval University (Québec), Canada.Previous position:Universidad NacionalAutónoma de México, Mexico.Research interests: Water manage-ment processes at different tem-poral and spatial scales.


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Dr. David Naumann (IMDEA Software Institute)PhD: University of Texas (Austin),USA.Visiting scientist from: Stevens Insti-tute of Technology (Hoboken), USA.Research interests: Formal methodsand software security; correctnessby construction; and formal systemcomponents.

Dr. Nathalie Nicod(IMDEA Food Institute)PhD: Cornell University, USA.Previous position: IDIBAPS, Spain.Research interests: Design anddevelopment of functional foods:from cells to humans; and micronu-trients and cardiovascular disease.

Dr. Irene Ortiz Bernad (IMDEA Water Institute)PhD: Universidad de Granada,Spain.Dual appointment: Universidad deAlcalá, Spain.Research interests: Bioremediationof soils contaminated by metals.

Dr. Roberto Otero Martín (IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Universidad Autónoma deMadrid, Spain.Dual appointment: UniversidadAutónoma de Madrid, Spain.Research interests: Atomic andmolecular self-assembly at surfaces.

Dr. Jesús Palma del Val (IMDEA Energy Institute)PhD: Universidad Autónoma deMadrid, Spain.Previous position: Técnicas Reunidas,Spain.Research interests: Electrochemi-cal energy storage systems for sta-tionary and transport applications.

Dr. Juan Antonio PascualAguilar (IMDEA Water Institute)PhD: Universidad de Valencia,Spain.Dual appointment: Centro de Inves-tigaciones sobre Desertización, Spain.Research interests: Environmentalland use and water processes.



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Dr. Timur E. Pavluk (IMDEA Water Institute)PhD: Institute of Plant and AnimalEcology (Ekaterinburg), Russia.Previous position: Russian ResearchInstitute for Integrated Water Ma-nagement and Protection (Ekaterin-burg), Russia.Research interests: Microinverte-brates in applied research, biologi-cal monitoring of water.

Dr. Emilio Pérez Álvarez (IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: University of Edinburgh, UK.Previous position: Universidad Com-plutense de Madrid, Spain.Research interests: Supramolecularchemistry and self-assembly of func-tional materials.

Dr. David Pérez de Lara (IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Istituto di Cibernetica del CNR,Italy / Instituto Nacional de FísicaNuclear, Italy.Previous position: Universidad Com-plutense de Madrid, Spain.Research interests: Fabrication andproperties of nanostructured super-conductors.

Dr. Teresa Pérez Prado (IMDEA Materials Institute)PhD: Universidad Complutense deMadrid, Spain.Previous position: Centro Nacionalde Investigaciones Metalúrgicas,Spain.Research interests: Metal Physics.

Dr. Paolo Perna (IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Laboratory Universite de Caen-Basse Normandie - GREYC, France.Previous position: CNR-INFM CRSCoherentia (Naples), Italy.Research interests: Growth andNanostructuring. Magnetic films.

Dr. Javier Polavieja Perera (IMDEA Social Sciences Institute)PhD: Nuffield College, Oxford Uni-versity, UK.Previous position: ICREA - IAE,Spain.Research interests: Labor markets;and stratification and EconomicSociology.

Dr. Antonio Politano (IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Universitá degli Studi dellaCalabria, Italy.Previous position: Universitá degliStudi della Calabria, Italy.Research interests: Scanning probemicroscopies and surfaces.

Dr. Pedro Ponte Castañeda (IMDEA Materials Institute)PhD: Harvard University, USA.Dual appointment: University ofPennsylvania, USA.Research interests: Theoretical andapplied mechanics.

Dr. César Poza Carrión (IMDEA Energy Institute)PhD: Universidad Autónoma deMadrid, Spain.Previous position: Consejo Superiorde Investigaciones Científicas, Spain.

Research interests: Biosynthesis ofthe metallocluster located at thenitrogenase active site for the opti-mization of hydrogen production.


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Dr. Milan Prodanovic (IMDEA Energy Institute)PhD: Imperial College (London), UK.Previous position: Imperial College(London), UK.Research interests: Modelling and con-trol of electrical and electronic systems;integration of distributed generation;and active management of microgridsand distribution power networks.

Dr. Diego Puga Pequeño (IMDEA Social Sciences Institute)PhD: London School of Economics,UK.Previous position: University ofToronto, Canada.Research interests: Internationaltrade; urban and regional econo-mics; and economics of innovation.

Dr. Jerome Rajakesari (IMDEA Materials Institute)PhD: Indian Institute of TechnologyMadras, India.Previous position: Indian Instituteof Technology Madras, India.Research interests: Multiscale mo-deling.

Dr. Ana Ramírez de Molina (IMDEA Food Institute)PhD: Universidad Autónoma deMadrid, Spain.Previous position: TCD Pharma,Spain.Research interests: Nutritionalgenomics: Diet and cancer develop-ment.

Dr. Srinivasa Rao Bonta (IMDEA Materials Institute)PhD: National Insitute for MaterialsScience, Japan.Previous position: University ofRouen, France.Research interests: Metal Physics.

Dr. Narasimha Reddy (IMDEA Networks Institute)PhD: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.Visiting scientist from: Texas A&MUniversity, USA.Research interests: Computer Net-working; storage systems; and mul-timedia.

Dr. Guillermo Reglero Rada (IMDEA Food Institute)PhD: Universidad Autónoma deMadrid, Spain.Dual appointment: UniversidadAutónoma de Madrid, Spain.Research interests: Design, deve-lopment and validation of functio-nal foods.

Dr. Reza Rejaie (IMDEA Networks Institute)PhD: University of Southern Califor-nia, USA.Visiting scientist from: University ofOregon, USA.Research interests: Multimedia Net-working; P2P Networking; Network Mea-surement; and online social networks.

Dr. Balaji Rengarajan (IMDEA Networks Institute)PhD: University of Texas (Austin),USA.Previous position: University of Texas(Austin), USA.Research interests: Measurement,modeling and performance evalua-tion of wireless networks.



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Dr. Gianluca Rizzo (IMDEA Networks Institute)PhD: Écola Polytechnique Fédéralede Lausanne, Switzerland.Previous position: ABB CorporateResearch Center, Switzerland.Research interests: Performanceevaluation of communication net-works; network calculus; and qua-lity of service.

Dr. Arantxa RodríguezCasado (IMDEA Food Institute)PhD: Universidad Complutense deMadrid, Spain.Previous position: University of Lon-don, UK.Research interests: Design anddevelopment of fuctional foods: Phy-tochemicals and obesity.

Dr. Amadeo Rodríguez (IMDEA Water Institute)PhD: Universidad de Granada,Spain.Dual appointment: Universidad deAlmería, Spain.Research interests: Developmentand application of mass spectro-metry methodologies for the deter-mination of emerging pollutants.

Dr. Antonio Rodríguez (IMDEA Water Institute)PhD: Universidad de Alcalá, Spain.Dual appointment: Universidad deAlcalá, Spain.Research interests: Chemical engi-neering.

Dr. Andrés Rodríguez Pose (IMDEA Social Sciences Institute)PhD: European University Institute,Italy.Previous position: London School ofEconomics, UK.Research interests: Economic geo-graphy; regional and urban econo-mics; and development and publicpolicy.

Dr. Manuel Romero Álvarez (IMDEA Energy Institute)PhD: Universidad de Valladolid,Spain.Previous position: CIEMAT, Spain.Research interests: Solar concen-trating systems; solar thermal powerplants; and solar fuels and chemi-cals.

Dr. Roberto Rosal García (IMDEA Water Institute)PhD: Universidad de Oviedo, Spain.Dual appointment: Universidad deAlcalá, Spain.Research interests: Chemical engi-neering.

Dr. Luis Manuel Rubio Herrero (IMDEA Energy Institute)PhD: Universidad de Sevilla, Spain/ CSIC, Spain.Previous position: University of Ca-lifornia (Berkeley), USA.Research interests: Biosynthesis ofthe metallocluster located at thenitrogenase active site for the opti-mization of hydrogen production.

Dr. Ilchat Sabirov (IMDEA Materials Institute)PhD: University of Leoben, Austria.Previous position: Deakin Univer-sity, Australia.Research interests: Physical simu-lation.


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Dr. César Sánchez Sánchez (IMDEA Software Institute)PhD: Stanford University, USA.Dual appointment: Consejo Superiorde Investigaciones Científicas, Spain.Previous position: University ofSanta Cruz, USA.Research interests: Logics, games andautomata; temporal verification ofreactive systems; and concurrency.

Dr. Rickard Sandell (IMDEA Social Sciences Institute)PhD: Stockholm University, Sweden.Previous position: European Coun-cil / Real Instituto Elcano.Research interests: Organizationalsociology; international migrations;and demographic processes.

Dr. Javier Segurado (IMDEA Materials Institute)PhD: Universidad Politécnica deMadrid, Spain.Dual appointment: UniversidadPolitécnica de Madrid, Spain.Research interests: Multiscale mate-rials modeling.

Dr. Rocío Seltzer (IMDEA Materials Institute)PhD: Sydney University, Australia.Previous position: Sydney Universi-ty, Australia.Research interests: Structural com-posites.

Dr. Roberto Serrano García (IMDEA Social Sciences Institute)PhD: Harvard University, USA.Dual appointment: Brown Universi-ty, USA.Research interests: Implementationtheory and mechanism design; andbargaining and auction theory.

Dr. David Serrano (IMDEA Energy Institute)PhD: Universidad Complutense deMadrid, Spain.Dual appointment: Universidad ReyJuan Carlos, Spain.Research interests: Photocatalyticreduction of CO2; and hydrogen pro-duction by water photo-splitting andfossil fuels decarbonisation.

Dr. Federico Sket (IMDEA Materials Institute)PhD: Max-Planck Institute for IronResearch, Germany.Previous position: Max-Planck Insti-tute for Iron Research, Germany.Research interests: X-Ray Tomography.

Dr. Miguel Solanes (IMDEA Water Institute)Previous position: Comisión Económi-ca para América Latina y el Caribe,Chile.Research interests: Economic andinstitutional analysis of water.

Dr. Álvaro Somoza Calatrava (IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Universidad Autónoma deMadrid, Spain.Previous position: IRB Barcelona,Spain.Research interests: Modified oligonu-cleotides in nanobiomedicine: RNAinterference and sensors.



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Dr. Rade Stanojevic (IMDEA Networks Institute)PhD: National University of Ireland,Ireland.Previous position: TelefónicaResearch (Barcelona), Spain.Research interests: Performanceevaluation; and network economics.

Dr. Peter Stuckey (IMDEA Software Institute)PhD: Monash University, Australia.Visiting scientist from: University ofMelbourne, Australia.Research interests: Constraint pro-gramming; logic programming; anddeductive databases and programanalysis.

Dr. Shivanand Teli (IMDEA Water Institute)PhD: Shivaji University (Kolhapur),India.Previous position: Hanyang Univer-sity, South Korea.Research interests: Membrane tech-nology.

Dr. Francisco TeránGarcinuño (IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Université Joseph Fourier-Grenoble I, France.Previous position: Centro Tecnológi-co Gaiker, Spain.Research interests: Magnetic nanopar-ticles in biomedical applications.

Dr. Denny Tjahjanto (IMDEA Materials Institute)PhD: Delft University of Technolo-gy, the Netherlands.Previous position: Max-Planck Insti-tute for Iron Research, Germany.Research interests: Advanced simu-lation of materials failure.

Dr. José Manuel Torralba (IMDEA Materials Institute)PhD: Universidad Politécnica deMadrid, Spain.Dual appointment: Universidad Car-los III de Madrid, Spain.Research interests: Solid state pro-cessing.

Dr. Francisco Úbeda de Torres (IMDEA Social Sciences Institute)PhD: Harvard University, USA.Visiting scientist from: University ofTennessee, USA.Research interests: Intragenomicconflict and social evolution.

Dr. Benigno Valdés Díaz (IMDEA Social Sciences Institute)PhD: University of New Hampshire,USA.Previous position: Universidad Pon-tificia de Comillas (ICADE), Spain.Research interests: Macroecono-mics.

Dr. Teodoro Vargas Alonso(IMDEA Food Institute)PhD: Universidad Complutense deMadrid, SpainPrevious position: Hospital 12 deOctubre (Madrid), Spain.Research interests: Nutritionalgenomics: diet and cancer develop-ment.


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Dr. Marisela Vélez Tirado (IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: University of Michigan, USA.Dual appointment: Instituto deCatálisis y Petroleoquímica (CSIC),Spain.Research interests: AFM / Fluores-cence Microscopy of Biomem-branes.

Dr. Ángeles VillanuevaOroquieta (IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Universidad Autónoma deMadrid, Spain.Dual appointment: UniversidadAutónoma de Madrid, Spain.Research interests: Magneticnanoparticles in Biomedicine. Cell-particle nanomagnetic interaction.

Dr. Francesco Visioli (IMDEA Food Institute)PhD: University of Brescia, Italy.Previous position: Université Pierreet Marie Curie (Paris), France.Research interests: Design anddevelopment of functional foods:from cells to humans; and micronu-trients and cardiovascular disease.

Dr. Reinhold Wannemacher (IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: University of Darmstadt, Ger-many.Previous position: University ofDarmstadt, Germany.Research interests: Nanooptics andNanoacoustics.

Dr. Joerg Widmer (IMDEA Networks Institute)PhD: University of Mannheim, Ger-many.Previous position: Docomo Euro-Labs. (Munich), Germany.Research interests: Wireless com-munication; network coding; andpeer-to-peer communication.

Dr. Yonshing Yang (IMDEA Energy Institute)PhD: Dalian Institute of ChemicalPhysics, Chinese Academy of Sci-ences, China.Previous position: McMaster Univer-sity, Canada.Research interests: Novel high acti-vity HDO catalysts for bio-oil upgra-ding.

Dr. Santiago Zanella (IMDEA Software Institute)PhD: École des Mines de Paris,FrancePrevious position: INRIA-MicrosoftResearch Joint Centre (Paris), France

Research interests: Verification ofcryptographic systems, language-based security and semantics of pro-gramming languages.



58Dr. Aránzazu Aguirre de Miguel(IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: University of Antwerp, Bel-gium.Previous position: Technical Univer-sity Eindhoven, the Netherlands.Research interests: Optical spec-troscopy.

Dr. Namaa Audi Alamary(IMDEA Food Institute)PhD: Universidad de Granada,Spain.Previous position: Queen Mary Uni-versity of London, UK.Research interests: Potential ben-efits of components of the Mediter-ranean Diet on pancreatic cancerand other chronic diseases.

Dr Robert H. Blick(IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Max-Plank Institute for SolidState Physics, GermanyPrevious position: University of Wis-consin, USAResearch interests: Nanomem-branes and MEMs

Dr. Fabián Calleja Mitjan(IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Universidad Autónoma deMadrid, Spain.Previous position: École Polytech-nique Fédérale de Lausanne,Switzerland.Research interests: Spin-PolarizedSTM.

Dr. Manuel Carro(IMDEA Software Institute)PhD: Universidad Politécnica deMadrid, España.Dual appointment: UniversidadPolitécnica de Madrid, España.Research interests: Program Lan-guages Analysis; Implementation,Declarative Programming; and Ser-vice-Oriented Computing.

Dr. Patricia Casas(IMDEA Food Institute)PhD: Universitat Rovira i Virgili,Spain.Previous position: Universitat Rovi-ra i Virgili, Spain.Research interests: Possible inter-actions between genetic and healthstyle factors in the obesity develop-ment.

Dr. José Luis Corvea Porras(IMDEA Water Institute)PhD: Universidad de Alcalá, Spain.Previous position: Viñales Park,Cuba.Research interests: Methodologicalbasis of wastewater management inprotected areas.

Dr. Pierre Couleaud(IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: NRS Universidad de Nancy,France.Previous position: NRS Universidadde Nancy, France.Research interests: Protein Engi-neering and Biofunctional Nanos-tructures.

Dr. Andrés Díez del Hierro(IMDEA Water Institute)PhD: Universidad Complutense deMadrid, Spain.Dual appointment: Instituto Geológi-co y Minero de España, Spain.Research interests: Flood hazardand risk analysis using geologicaland geomorphological methodolo-gies; palaeohydrology; dendrogeo-morphology.

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Dr. Zoe Drey(IMDEA Software Institute)PhD: Université de Bordeaux 1,France.Previous position: Université de Bor-deaux 1, France.Research interests: DSL; and Deno-tational semantics of programminglanguages.

Dr. Rehab El-Shehawy(IMDEA Water Institute)PhD: Universidad de Bayreuth, Ger-many.Previous position: Stockholm Uni-versity, Sweden.Research interests: Toxic cyanobac-teria in water bodies, biologicalwater monitoring using moleculartools.

Dr. Juan Pedro Fernández(IMDEA Materials Institute)PhD: Universidad Complutense deMadrid, Spain.Previous position: Max Planck Insti-tut für Polymerforschung, Germany.Research interests: Research: Mul-tifunctional Nanocomposites.

Dr. Pierre Francois(IMDEA Networks Institute)PhD: Université Catholique de Lou-vain, Belgium.Previous position: Fonds Nationalde la Recherche Scientifique, Bel-gium.Research interests: IP NetworkingRouting; Routing Architectures; andRouting Economics.

Dr. José María Gallego Vázquez(IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Universidad Autónoma deMadrid, Spain.Previous position: Instituto de Cien-cia de Materiales de Madrid (CSIC),Spain.Research interests: Scanning tun-neling microscopy.

Dr. Vijay Ganesh(IMDEA Software Institute)PhD: Stanford University, USA.Previous position: MassachusetsInstitute of Technology, USA.Research interests: ConstraintSolvers; Software Testing; and Self-adaptive Software.

Dr. Miguel Ángel G. GarcíaTuñón(IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Universidad Complutense deMadrid, Spain.Previous position: Instituto deCerámica y Vidrio (CSIC), Spain.Research interests: Physical propor-ties of Nanostructures.

Dr. Elena Giordano(IMDEA Food Institute)PhD: Universidad de Cagliari,Italy.Previous position: Universidad deCagliari, Italy.Research interests: Nutrigenomicsand lipid metabolism.

Dr. Cristina GonzálezFernández(IMDEA Energy Institute)PhD: Universidad de Valladolid,Spain.Previous position: LBE-INRA,France.Research interests: Development ofadvanced processes for biofuel pro-duction using microalgae.

Dr. Sanda Iepure(IMDEA Water Institute)PhD: Romanian Academy, Romania.Previous position: Institute for Lim-nology Mondsee, Austria.Research interests: Application ofgroundwater ecology to aquifer man-agement.

Dr. Damien Joly(IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Università degli Studi di Tri-este, Italy.Previous position: University of Cal-ifornia (Santa Barbara), USA.Research interests: Organic synthe-sis.

Dr. Malaak Kallache(IMDEA Water Institute)PhD: Potsdam Institute for ClimateImpact Research, Germany.Previous position: Laboratoire desSciences du Climat et l’Environ-nement, France.Research interests: Statistical char-acteristics of precipitation extremesand droughts.

Dr. Gueorgui Kambourov(IMDEA Social Sciences Institute)PhD: University of Western Ontario,Canada.Visiting scientist from: Universityof Toronto, Canada.Research interests: Macroeconom-ics; Labor Economics; and Inter-national Trade.

Dr. Dariusz Kowalski(IMDEA Networks Institute)PhD: Warsaw University, Poland.Visiting scientist from: University ofLiverpool, UK.Research interests: Algorithms anddata structures; fault-tolerantaspects of computer science: dis-tributed/parallel/networks/mobilecomputing.

Dr. Alfonso Latorre(IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Universidad Complutense deMadrid, Spain.Previous position: Universidad Com-plutense de Madrid, Spain.Research interests: Biomachinesand manipulation of macromole-cules.



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Dr. Mª Encarnación Lorenzo Abad(IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Universidad Autónoma deMadrid, Spain.Previous position: UniversidadAutónoma de Madrid, Spain.Research interests: Electrochemi-cal Biosensors.

Dr. Raffaella Meffe(IMDEA Water Institute)PhD: Freie Universität Berlin, Ger-many.Previous position: Freie UniversitätBerlin, Germany.Research interests: Reactive trans-port modelling.

Dr. Begoña Milián Medina(IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Universidad de Valencia,Spain.Previous position: Universidad deValencia, Spain.Research interests: Modellingcharge excited states in molecules.

Dr. Miguel Monclús(IMDEA Materials Institute)PhD: Dublin City University, Ireland.Previous position: National PhysicalLaboratory, UK.Research interests: Micro- andNano-Mechanics.

Dr. Miguel Ángel Niño Ortiz(IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Universidad Autónoma deMadrid, Spain.Previous position: NanospectroscopyBeamline ELETTRA SynchrotronBasovizza-Trieste, Italy.Research interests: PhotoelectronMicroscopy.

Dr. José María Ordovás(IMDEA Food Institute)PhD: Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain.Dual appointment: University ofTufts, USA.Research interests: Genetic factorspredisposing to cardiovascular dis-ease and obesity and their interac-tion with the environment andbehavioral factors.

Dr. Cristina Palencia(IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Instituto de Cerámica y Vidrio(CSIC), Spain.Previous position: Instituto deCerámica y Vidrio (CSIC), Spain.Research interests: Semiconduc-tor nanoparticle.

Dr. Carlos Pérez Rábago(IMDEA Energy Institute)PhD: Universidad Nacional Autóno-ma de México, Mexico.Dual appointment: UniversidadNacional Autónoma de México, Mex-ico.Research interests: Solar Concen-trating Systems; Solar ThermalPower Plants.

Dr. Fontina Petrakopoulou(IMDEA Energy Institute)PhD: Technische Universität Berlin,Germany.Previous position: Technische Uni-versität Berlin, Germany.Research interests: Thermodynam-ic, economic and environmentalanalyses and optimization of ener-gy conversion systems.

Dr. José M. PingarrónCarrazón(IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Universidad Complutense deMadrid, Spain.Dual appointment: UniversidadComplutense de Madrid, Spain.Previous position: Universidad Com-plutense de Madrid, Spain.Research interests: Biosensors.

Dr. Miana Plesca(IMDEA Social Sciences Institute)PhD: University of Western Ontario,Canada.Visiting scientist from: Universityof Guelph, Canada.Research interests: Labor Econom-ics; Applied econometrics; and Pro-gram Evaluation.

Dr. Pavithra Prabhakar(IMDEA Software Institute)PhD: University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), USA.Previous position: University of Illi-nois (Urbana-Champaign), USA.Research interests: Timed andhybrid systems; formal methods;and au- tomata theory.

Dr. Raghu Raja(IMDEA Materials Institute)PhD: Indian Institute of Technology(Kharagpur), India.Previous position: Indian Instituteof Technology (Kharagpur), India.Research interests: Composite Mate-rials Processing.

Dr. ChandrasekaranRamasamy(IMDEA Energy Institute)PhD: Anna University, India.Previous position: CSIR-CECRIKaraikudi, India.Research interests: Studies on elec-tro active materials related to elec-trochemical energy storage devicesand their applications.

Dr. Gorka Salas-Hernández(IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Universidad de Valladolid,Spain.Previous position: Laboratoire deChimie Organométallique de Sur-face (Lyon), France.Research interests: MagneticNanoparticles in Biomedical appli-cations.


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Dr. Cláudio Saul Lopes(IMDEA Materials Institute)PhD: Delft University of Technolo-gy, the Netherlands.Previous position: INEGI-Universi-ty of Porto, Portugal.Research interests: Design & Sim-ulation of Composite Structures.

Dr. Tomás Torres Cebada(IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Universidad Autónoma deMadrid, Spain.Dual appointment: UniversidadAutónoma de Madrid, Spain.Previous position: UniversidadAutónoma de Madrid, Spain.Research interests: Organic func-tional materials.

Dr. María MalgorzataUlaszewska(IMDEA Water Institute)PhD: Universitá degli Studi diMilano, Italy.Previous position: University ofMilan, Italy.Research interests: Analytical chem-istry, organic pollutants.

Dr. Shinto Varghese(IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: National Institute for Interdis-ciplinary Science and Technology(Kerala), India.Previous position: National Institutefor Interdisciplinary Science andTechnology (Kerala), India.Research interests: Optical spec-troscopy

Dr. José Luis Vicent López(IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)PhD: Universidad Complutense deMadrid, Spain.Previous position: Universidad Com-plutense de Madrid, Spain.Research interests: Nanoelectron-ics and superconductivity.

Dr. Juan José Vilatela(IMDEA Materials Institute)PhD: University of Cambridge, UK.Previous position: University of Cam-bridge, UK.Research interests: MultifunctionalNanocomposites.

Dr. Martin Wirsing(IMDEA Software Institute)PhD: Ludwig-Maximilians Univer-sität München, Germany.Visiting scientist from: Ludwig-Max-imilians University of München, Ger-many.Research interests: Software Devel-opment using Formal Methods; Sys-tematic Development of Service-Ori-ented; and Algebraic SpecificationTechniques.

Dr. Noam Zeilberger(IMDEA Software Institute)PhD: Carnegie Mellon University,USA.Previous position: Université ParisVII, France.Research interests: Programminglanguages and logic.


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