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Goñi, Alejandro R.
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ICREA Research Professor at CSIC - ICMAB (Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona). Technology & Engineering
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I was born in Córdoba, Argentina, where I visited the German School. I graduated in physics in 1985 from the prestigious Balseiro Institute in Bariloche, Argentina. In 1986 I moved to Germany for my Ph.D. at the Max-Planck Institute FKF in Stuttgart with Prof. M. Cardona, which I finished in 1989. During this time my two beautiful daughters were born. It followed a two-years postdoc at AT&T Bell Labs in Murray Hill, USA, with A. Pinczuk and back to the MPI in Stuttgart for three years. In 1996 I switched to the Technical University of Berlin for an appointment as Senior Research & Teaching Associate which lasted for eight years. In November 2003 I became ICREA Research Professor. In 1999 I was awarded the Karl-Scheel Prize of the Physical Society of Berlin for my contributions to the field of high-pressure semiconductor physics.
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Research Interests
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I work mainly in the lab performing experiments on optical spectroscopy using lasers and analyzing the scattered light dispersed like with a prism. My main subject are the physical properties of nanostructured materials like semiconductors, polymers, etc. (1 nm is approx. 1/100.000 the hair thickness), conducting experiments under extreme temperature (-270º C) and pressure (100.000 bar) conditions. The idea is to use light as a probe of the physical properties of nano-materials, searching for new behaviors or phenomena that emerge as a direct consequence of the reduced dimensionality and/or size of the material system under study. Although I am principally pursuing basic research, almost all my lines of investigation have a clear application in mind, such as to improve the performance of optoelectronic devices based on nano-materials, enhance thermoelectric properties, boost piezo-resistive coefficients, develop ultra-sensitive spectroscopic techniques, etc.
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KeyWords
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solid-state physics, optical spectroscopy, nanosciences & nanotechnology, high-pressure physics
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