Nationality Spain | Name Ramon Torrecillas | |
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Born 30 August 1963 (age 60)
Oviedo, Asturias, Spain ( 1963-08-30 ) Institutions Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology Research Center (CINN) Known for Bioceramics
Nanocomposites Alma mater University of Zaragoza, Institut national des sciences appliquees de Lyon Fields Materials Science, Inorganic chemistry | ||
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Ramon Torrecillas (Oviedo, 30 August 1963) is a Spanish physicist and materials scientist internationally recognized for his research in the fields of nanomaterials and biomaterials. Since 2008 he is Director of the Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology Research Center (CINN)., a joint research center promoted by the Spanish National Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), the University of Oviedo and the Principality of Asturias.
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He has published more than 140 scientific articles and is inventor in 19 patents
Biography
He received his bachelor degree in Physics in 1986 from the University of Zaragoza. Afterwards he moved to the Institut National des Sciences Appliquees of Lyon (INSA-Lyon) in France where he started his research on thermomechanical properties of advanced ceramics. In 1991 he received a PhD in Physics from the National Distance Education University, Directors: J.S.Moya and S. de Aza, and became director of the Ceramics and Refractories department of the Instituto Tecnológico de Materiales de Asturias, a Spanish technological research center, a position he held until 1994. In December that same year he obtained his PhD in Materials Engineering from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquees of Lyon with a thesis titled "Mechanical Behavior of Mullite and Mullite-Zirconia Composites Obtained by Reactive Sintering.
In 1994 he joined the National Institute of Coal (INCAR) belonging to the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) where he established and headed until 2008 the Department of Nanostructured Ceramics. In 2008 he became full research Professor of the CSIC and was appointed founding director of the Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology Research Center (CINN).
In 2009 he was appointed general manager of the Asturian Materials Techchnology Center ITMA sharing this position until 2011 with the managing direction of the CINN.
In 2011 he founded the company NANOKER Research SL, which manufactures advanced technical ceramics, nanomaterials and nanocomposites for optical, biomedical applications and extreme conditions
Research Projects
He has led some of the most relevant European projects in the fields of Biomaterials and Nanomaterials.