Sanz-Medel's research group. After his PhD, he was awarded a 2-year Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship for a postdoctoral stay at ETH (Switzerland) to work on laser ablation-based techniques at Prof. Günther's research group. Afterwards, Jorge obtained the outstanding “Ramon and Cajal” research contract and went back to University of Oviedo, where in collaboration with Dr. Nerea Bordel established the Laser and Plasma Spectroscopy Research Group