Rafael Valiente Barroso

Rafael Valiente is a Professor of Physics at the Applied Physics Department, at the University of Cantabria. He received a BSc from the University of Cantabria, in 1991, and a PhD in 1998, both in physics. After a Swiss National Science Foundation postdoctoral contract at the Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry with the University of Bern, Switzerland (1999-2001), he obtained a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship, 2001. In 2002, he became a Professor of Physics at the University of Cantabria. Prof. R. Valiente has contributed to more than 120 reviewed journal articles, more than 40 international conference, among them 10 plenary/tutorial/keynote lectures, 4 book chapters, and 6 summer school lectures in the fields of spectroscopy, high pressure and nanomaterials. He has supervised 4 doctoral theses and at the present id supervising another 3. His research is focused on the design, synthesis, and characterization of materials and nanomaterials with multifunctional properties with applications as sensors or biolabeling photoluminescent materials. Since 2011 he is member of the Nanomedicine Group at IDIVAL. In this period, he has participated in the development of nanomaterials for biomedical applications.