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1.3. Employment history

  • Current position: Professor of Condensed Matter Physics, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).
  • 1976 – PhD from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
  • Since 1976 – Consultant, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.
  • 1977 – PhD from the University of Barcelona.
  • 1976 – 77 – Visiting Research Fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (USA), the Bohr Institute (Denmark) and Lund University (Sweden).
  • 1978 – 80 – Full Professor of Solid State Physics, University of Barcelona.
  • 1980 – 83 – Minister of Education, Basque Government.
  • 1983 – 84 – Minister of Education and Culture and Spokesperson, Basque Government.
  • May 84 – Sep 86 – Guest Lecturer, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
  • 1985 – Overseas Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
  • 1999 – 2001 – Director of the CSIC-UPV/EHU Joint Centre.
  • 1999 – present – President and Founder of the Donostia International Physics Center.
  • 2006 – 2019 – President of the Board of Members of CIC-Nanogune.
  • 2007 – 2012 – President of Jakiunde. Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters.
  • 2008 – 2012 – Vice-President of Innobasque.
  • 2009 – present – President of the Board of Partners of the BERC-MPC (Material Physics Center).
  • 2011 – 2019 – Vice-President of the Euskampus Foundation.
  • 2011 – 2013 – Member of the ESS-BILBAO Consortium’s Scientific Advisory Committee.
  • 2012 – present – Honorary President of Jakiunde. Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters.
  • 2015 – 2019 – President of the Social Council of the City of Donostia-San Sebastian.