He received a BS degree from UAM in 1998 and a PhD from Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid in 2003. After Postdoctoral research with Prof. El?as Mu?oz at ISOM, he received a Postdoctoral Fulbright Fellowship to join the Center for Quantum Devices at Northwestern University. In 2008, he also received a Ramon y Cajal Grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science and became a member of the Applied Physics Department at UAM. His current research interests include synthesis, processing, characterization, and applications of semiconductor nanowires and 2D materials; light detectors and gas sensors. He has over 80 refereed publications, an H-index of 17 and his works have been cited more than 700 times.