Prof. Dr Anna Fontcuberta i Morral

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral studied Physics at the University of Barcelona, followed by a PhD in Materials Science at the Ecole Polytechnique Palaiseau, France. Between 2001 and 2005, she conducted research as a visiting researcher at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA, and as a CNRS researcher in France. During this time, she was co-founder of the suc­cessful start-up Aonex Technologies in the USA. She received her post-doctoral degree in Experimental Physics at the Technical University of Munich, Germany in 2009. Since 2008, she has been working at EPFL, where she was promoted to Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering in 2014 before being promoted to Full Professor in September 2019. The renowned researcher has established her Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials as the world leader in sustainable nanotech­nologies. She has also been an active member of various scientific advisory boards, com­mittees and expert committees.