Jesús Antonio González Gómez

Jesús A. González completed his Bachelor's Degree in Physics at the Universidad de los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela in 1978. In 1979 he entered as Assistant Professor to the Department of Physics of the same institution. In 1983 he obtained a doctorate scholarship from Universidad de los Andes and did his PhD in 1988 at the P. and M. Curie University (Paris VI) under the direction of Professor J. M. Besson. That same year he rejoined the University of the Andes where he began to work in the study of ternary semiconductors I-III-VI2 (chalcopyrites) in extreme conditions of pressure and temperature. In 1990 and 1991 he completed two post-doctoral stays in the Laboratory of Molecular Crystals of the University of Lille (France) with Prof. R. Fouret, performing experiments of inelastic neutron scattering under high pressure. In 1993 he worked for a year as visiting Professor at the Laboratory of Physique des Milieux Condenses of Paris VI with Prof. J. M. Besson in the study of phase transitions induced by pressure in III-V semiconductors. Back in Merida I installed the Raman spectroscopy laboratory and the high pressure infrastructure and he was the head of the Semiconductor Studies Center. He has been a full Professor since 1994. In 2001 he made a sabbatical year, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, at the University of Valencia with the group of Professor Alfredo Segura, working on II-VI semiconductor nanomaterials formed by pressure cycles. In 2004 he was Visiting Professor at the National Laboratory of Pulsed Magnetic Fields of the Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse (France) with Professor J.M. Broto, working on the development of a new diamond anvils pressure cell for magnetic and magneto-optical measurements. In 2007, he was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Chemistry of the University Complutense (Madrid), funded by the Banco de Santander Foundation, with the group of Professor Valentín García Baonza, working on the study of carbon nanotubes under high axial pressures. Since May 2008, responsible for the Raman National Infrastructure of the MALTA-Consolider Project at the University of Cantabria and collaborator of the Nanomedicine Group (IDIVAL Institute). He has 41 years of international research in the study of materials and nanomaterials under extreme conditions of high pressures, temperature and high pulsed magnetic field (60T). He has directed 6 Ph.D theses in the last 10 years and published 318 papers in the SCI with 3280 citations. He has received numerous awards including in 2003 the National Prize of Physics "Lorenzo Mendoza Fleury" from the Polar Foundation, Caracas, Venezuela . He is regular referee of the journals: Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, Nanoletters, and member of the Committee of the European High Pressure Group (EHPRG) since 2013 and member of the International Advisory Committee of the International Conference of High Pressure Semiconductor Physics, since 1998.