I’m a Spanish scientist living in the Czech Republic since 1996. I defended my PhD Thesis in 2001, in Bilbao, University of the Basque
Country, Spain, on Spectroscopic investigation of lattice dynamics and its disorder in ferroelectric and related materials. From 2001 to 2002 I was a Junior researcher in the Department of Dielectrics, Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague.
From 2002 to 2003 I was a Post-doc fellow (Le Studium) at CNRS-CNRHT, Orleans, France. Since 2004 I am a senior researcher in the Department of Dielectrics, Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, in Prague. In 2005 I was awarded with the Otto Wichterle Prize of Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic for young researchers.
Currently, and since 2023, I am the Head of the Group on Light and Neutron Scattering at the Institute of Physics in Prague.vI’m an author of about 80 scientific publications, including several reviews a chapter book, with about 1600 citations. I have several running scientific projects on ferroelectric and antiferroelectric materials. I am specialist in Infrared, Raman, broad-band spectroscopy, phase transitions, lattice dynamics, phonons, (anti)ferroelectrics, relaxors, etc. I'm also interested in disordered systems which challenge traditional ordered crystals, and in new materials with exotic structures, including topologica defects. I have several postdocs and PhD students in my group, and I am also a mentor at the Institute of Physics. Apart from science, I have two sons, I write and translate poetry. My primary hobby is music.