4.1. Organisation of international courses and conferences

Director of the UPV/EHU summer course “Electrones en Sólidos. Interacción de Cargas y Radiación con la Materia”. Donostia-San Sebastian (Basque Country) 6-10 July
Member of the Coordinating Committee of the European Network in Surface Crystallography (S. Anderson, R. Baudoing, P.M. Echenique, G. Ertl, M. Ibach, DA.King, K. Müller, J.B. Pendry, G. Rovida, I. Stensgaard, DJF Van der Veen)
Director of the summer course (also yearly course of the GEFES): “Espectroscopías de Sólidos y Superficies”. Donostia-San Sebastian (Basque Country) – 29 August-2 September 1988
Chairman of “The 12th Werner Brandt Workshop on Penetration Phenomena of Charged Particles in Matter”. Donostia-San Sebastian 4-7 September 1989
International Advisory Committee of the Sixth Latin American Symposium on Surface Physics. Cuzco, Peru – 3-7 September 1990
International Adivisory Committee of the International Werner-Brandt Conferences on the Interaction of Charged Particles with Matter
International Advisory Committee of the Seventh Latin American Symposium on Surface Physics. Argentina 1992
International Advisory Committee of the Third International Conference on Electrical Transport and Optical Properties of Inhomogeneous Media (ETOPMIN 3) Guanajuato -Mexico 9-13 August 1993
Chairman of Euroconference “Particle-Solid Interaction: Electronic Excitations in Bulk and Surfaces”. Donostia-San Sebastian, Basque Country 1-6 October 1994
Organizing Committee, “International Symposium Interaction of Charged Particles and Radiation with Matter”. Oak Ridge, TN, USA, 23-26 October 1994
Director of EuroConferences Series: Donostia Encounters on Particle Solid Interaction. Donostia-San Sebastian, Basque Country, 23-28 September 1997
International Scientific Committee of the International Ontology Congress. Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, 1-5 October 1998
International Scientific Committee of the Werner Brandt International Conference. Bariloche, Argentina, 11-18 April 1999
International Scientific Committee of the “VI Reunión Nacional de Materiales”. Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, 22-24 June 1999
Director, “European Research Conferences, Particle-Solid Interaction”. Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, 28 September-3 October, 1999.
Chairman, “International Workshop on Image States and Electron Lifetimes in Solids”. Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, 25-27 June, 2000.
“Lifetimes of Surface States in Metals”, 20^Th International Seminar on Surface Physics. Kudowa-Zdrój (Poland), 19-24 June 2000
Together with D. J. Antonio Ortega and Díaz Ambrona, Co-Director of the Summer Course: “El legado del siglo XX: materia, vida y sociedad”. 28 August, 2000.
Advisory Board of the International Conference “La Ciencia y la Tecnología ante el Tercer Milenio”. Sociedad Estatal España Nuevo Milenio. Madrid (Spain) 14-17 November 2000.
Scientific and Technical Committee for “La Sociedad de la Información en el País Vasco”. Bilbao, 24-27 April 2001.
Chairman “UPV/EHU summer course”. International Workshop on “Ultrafast Surface Dynamics”, Donostia–San Sebastian (Spain), 7 – 11 July, 2001. Also the UPV/EHU summer course.
International Advisory Board, “ European Conference on Surface Science” ECOSS20. Krakow (Poland). 4-7 September 2001,
Director “UPV/EHU summer course”. “European Research Conference on the deposition of atoms, Ions and Cluster at Surfaces”. Donostia-San Sebastian (Spain), 11-16 September 2001.
International Scientific Committee, “22nd Werner Brandt Workshop, FUNDP”. Namur (Belgium), 27-29 June 2002
Co-Director of the UPV/EHU summer course: “Towards atomic scale – and time – resolution at interfaces”, Donostia-San Sebastian (Spain) 1-4 July 2002.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the TNT Conference, La Coruña (Spain). 11-13 September 2002.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the VII National Conference on Materials, Madrid (Spain), October 2002.
President of the Scientific Committee of the “Simposio Euskadi en la Sociedad del Conocimiento”. Bilbao, 12-14 June 2003.
Co-Director of the UPV/EHU summer course “DIPC-International Workshop on Optical properties of complex materials over different length scales”. Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain. 7-11 July 2003.
Co-Director of the UPV/EHU summer course “V Donostia Encounter on Particle Solid Interactions”. “Modifications following different interaction processes at surfaces”. Donostia-San Sebastian, 8-13 September (2003)
Organising committee of 1^st Nanospain Workshop, Donostia-San Sebastián, 9-12 March (2004)
Co-Director of the UPV/EHU summer course “Molecule-surface interactions: elementary reactive processes”, Donostia-San Sebastian, September 7 – 11, 2004.
Co-Chairman of the “Albert Einstein Annus Mirabilis 2005”, Donostia-San Sebastian, September 5-8, 2005.
International Advisory Board, ECOSS 23, European Conference on Surface Science, Berlin, September 4-9, 2005.
Organising Committee, 2^nd Nanospain Workshop, Barcelona, March 14-17, 2005
Organising Committee, UPV/EHU summer course, Summer School on metamaterials for microwaves and optical technologies, Donostia-San Sebastian, July 18-20 (2005).
Organising Committee, TNT2005, Oviedo, Spain, August 29-September 2, 2005.
Organising Committee, International Workshop, “Recent advances on the dynamics of atomic and molecular particles interacting with gas and solid targets”. Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, October 24-26, 2005.
Chairman of the “Dynamics of electron transfer processes at surfaces” symposium at the Condensed Matter joint meeting or the Deutsche Physikalishce Gessellschaft and the European Physical Society, Dresden, Germany, 27-31 March, 2006.
International Steering Committee. 5^th Symposium on Ultrafast Surface Dynamics”, 21-25 May 2006. Hokkaido (Japan).
Organising Committe, TNT 2006, Grenoble, France, 4-8 September 2006.
Organising Committee “Nano2006”. UPV/EHU summer course, Donostia-San Sebastian, 4-6 September 2006.
International Advisory Committee, 20^th Symposium on Surface Science 3S07, Les Arcs, France, March 11-17, 2007.
Scientific Committee of the International Conference Elementary Reactive processes at surfaces, ERPS 2007, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, August 30-September 1, 2007.
Organising Committee, TNT 2007, Trends in Nanotechnology, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, 3-7 September, 2007.
6^th International Symposium on Atomic Level Characterizations for New Materials and devices 07, ALG´07, Kanazawa, Ihikawa, Japan, October 28- November 2, 2007.
Steering Committee, USD 6 Ultrafast Surface Dynamics 6, Kloster Banz, Germany, 20-25 July, 2008.
Co-chairman of the Symposium Electronic Structure and Quantum Effects of Two-dimensional Systems. ECOSS 25, Liverpool, England, July 27- August 1, 2008.
Co-chairman of the International Workshop UltraFast 2008, “Electron dynamics and electron mediated phenomena at surfaces: femto-chemistry and atto-physics”. Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, May 7-9, 2008.
Co-chairman (with Jesús Ugalde) of the International Workshop (UPV/EHU summer course), “The role of scientific academies in modern societies”, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, August 29, 2008.
Chairman of the Symposium: “New Frontier of Magnetism”. Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, September 22, 2008.
Organising Committee of the “28th Brandt Ritchie Workshop: Practicle penetration Phenomena and Excitation of Solids”. Madrid, Spain, May 24-27, 2009.
Organising Committee, “Trends in Nanotechnology Conference International Conference TNT 2009, Barcelona, Spain, September 7-11, 2009
International Committee, “Attosecond Physics” Atto-09, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, July 28-August 1, 2009
International Advisory Board, “European Conference on Surface Science” ECCOSS 2009, Parma, Italy, August 30- September 4, 2009
Co-Director of the UPV/EHU summer course: Workshop on “Bio-Inspired Photonic Structures”. Photonic Science and Ingineering in the living and artificial worlds, Donostia, Donostia-San Sebastian, Basque Country, Spain, July 9-15, 2009
Co-director of the “Workshop on Inorganic Nanotubes. Experiment and Theory”, DIPC, Donostia-San Sebastian, September 4-7, 2009
Co-chairman of the Workshop “Nano2009: Perspectives in nanoscience and nanotechnology”, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, September 28-30, 2009
Co-chairman of the Conference “Atom by Atom”, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, September 28-30, 2009
Organizing Committee, summer course “Computational Materials Science”, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, June 28- July 3, 2010
International Steering Committee, “Ultrafast Surface Dynamics” USD 2010, Croatia, August 22-26, 2010
Organizing Committee, “Passion for Knowledge”, Donostia-San Sebastian, September 27- October 1, 2010
Chairman of the “Symposium on Surface Science 2011 (3S´11)”, Baqueira Beret, Lleida, Spain, March 6-12, 2011
Honorary Committee, “Passion for light”, Joint EPS-SIF International workshop, Varenna, Lake Como Italy, September 16, 2011
Advisory Board, “International Conference on Solid Films and Surfaces (icsfs16), Genoa, Italy, July 1-6, 2012
International Committee, “Atto2013”, Paris, July 8-12, 2013
Organising Committee, TNT 2013 (Trends in Nanotechnology), Seville, September 9-13, 2013
Organising Committee, NanoSpain Conference 2016, Logroño, March 15, 2016
Honorary President, “Physis Kai Polis. XII international ontology congress”, Donostia-San Sebastian, October 3-7/ Barcelona October 10-11 2016
Member of the Scientific Committee, “IV Congreso internacional “Derecho, filosofía, economía, sociología, psicología y educación en un mundo global. Paz y justicia para una convivencia cultural comunicativa””, Santo Domingo, November 7-10, 2017
Organising Committee, ImagineNano 2018, Bilbao, March 13-15, 2018
Co-director of the “Encuentro: Poder económico y poder científico”, UIMP, Santander, June 27-29, 2018
Organising Committee & International Scientific Committee, “Symposium on surface science 2019” (3S19), Baqueira Beret, Spain, March 10-16, 2019
Promoter of the course “La ciencia y el sector empresarial”, Madrid, June 17-19, 2019
Organising Committee, 37th Symposium on Surface Science 3S25, Baqueira Beret, Spain, March 9-15, 2025