Joaquín Fernández-Rossier is currently the leader of the Group of Theory of Quantum Nanostructures. He is a condensed matter theorist with an interest in quantum phenomena at the atomic scale, quantum materials, quantum sensing and quantum simulation in quantum computers. He has published more than 150 indexed research papers, including Science (3), Nature (2), Nature Materials (2), Nature Nanotechnology (4),  Advanced Materials (2),  Nature Chemistry, Nature Communications,  Science Advances, Physical Review Letters (20),  Nano Letters (4),  2D Materials (7),  Physical Review X,  and  Physical Review B (62). His papers have been cited more than 10500 times (Google Scholar). His h index is 53 (Google Scholar). He has graduated 6 PhD students and is co-supervising 7 more.  

He holds both a Diploma (1994) and a PhD (1999) in Physics from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He spent 2 years (99-01) as a postdoctoral researcher at the Physics Department of the University of California San Diego and 18 months (01-03) at the Physics Department of the University of Texas at Austin. In 2003 he obtained a Ramon y Cajal assistant professor position at the Universidad de Alicante, and he was promoted to a permanent position in 2008 and to an associate professor (professor titular) in 2009. He joined INL in 2011. 

Last update: June 2023.