Curriculum Vitae

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Dr. Alejandro Martínez

ORCID number: 0000-0001-5448-0140; Researcher ID: D-8616-2014

Date of birth: 14/11/1976

Websites: http://www.ntc.upv.es/english/metamaterials.html (research group), http://personales.upv.es/almarab/ (personal).

· EDUCATION

27/01/2004 PhD in Telecommunications Engineering (Thesis: “Study of passive optical functionalities based on 2D photonics crystals”, supervisor: Prof. Javier Martí).

30/10/2002 Advanced Studies Diploma (equivalent to Master), Doctorate Program on Telecommunications.

20/06/2000 Telecommunications Engineering degree (Five-years university degree).

In all the previous cases: Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación (ETSIT, www.etsit.upv.es), Departamento de Comunicaciones (DCOM), Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV, www.upv.es), Spain.

· CURRENT POSITION

11/12/2017– Full Professor (Catedrático de Universidad), permanent position, in ETSIT, DCOM, UPV (Spain). Research activities at the Nanophotonics Technology Center (NTC, www.ntc.upv.es). Leader of the research group “Plasmonic metamaterials” since 2009.

· PREVIOUS POSITIONS

24/05/2009 – 10/12/2017 Associate Professor (Profesor Titular)

01/06/2007 – 24/05/2009 Associate Professor (Contratado Doctor)

01/10/2006 – 31/05/2007 Lecturer (Profesor Colaborador)

06/11/2003 – 30/09/2006 Assistant Lecturer (Ayudante)

In all the previous cases: ETSIT, DCOM, UPV, Spain.

· FELLOWSHIPS

01/03/2001 – 05/11/2003 PhD fellowship (FPI) granted by the Valencia Government for PhD studies at ETSIT, DCOM (UPV, Spain).

· RESEARCH STAYS

10/01/2018 – 29/03/2018 AMOLF (The Netherlands), supervised by Prof. Ewold Verhagen.

· SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

2007 – 2018 4 post-docs (Leopoldo Martín, Daniel Puerto, Gil Jannes, Claudio Otón) / 6 PhD students (Francisco Cuesta-Soto, Ruben Ortuño, Carlos García-Meca, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño – now Lecturer at King’s College London –, José M. Escalante and Alba Espinosa-Soria), two of them with the UPV’s Doctorate Extraordinary Prize / 9 Master Students. I have also supervised short doctoral (2) and post-doctoral (1) research stages. Currently, I am supervising 4 PhD Students. All activities at NTC.

· TEACHING ACTIVITIES

Since November 2003, I have been doing teaching activities at UPV (Spain). This is a summary of the subjects I have taught during this period:

- Degree on “Telecommunications Engineering”: Electromagnetic Fields, Cable-Radio diffusion systems, Radio communication laboratory, Microwave laboratory, Technologies & Systems in Access Networks.

- Degree on “Biomedical engineering”: Biotechnology and Nanotechnology.

- Master on “Communication Technologies, Systems and Networks” (post-graduate): Nanophotonics (including these topics: silicon photonics, plasmonics, metamaterials and photonic crystals).

· ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

2011 General Chairman of the 4th edition of the “Workshop on Metamaterials and 4th Young Scientist Meeting on Metamaterials (YSMM'11)”, held in Valencia, 14-16 February 2011, with 44 participants (Website: https://www.ntc.upv.es/conferences/ysmm/ ) .

2012, 2014 Member of the Organizing Committee of the “Spanish Nanophotonics Conference” (CEN). http://www.phantomsnet.net/cen2014/index.php?p=1

2014 Co-organizer of the colloquium “Nano-phononics, Nanomechanics, and Nano-optomechanics”, in the frame of the Journées de la Matière Condensée 2014 (JMC-CMD) http://cmd25jmc14.sciencesconf.org/ (August 24th to 29th).

2016 Co-chairman of the “Spanish Nanophotonics Conference” (CEN), to be held in Valencia (20-22 June 2016). http://www.phantomsnet.net/cen2016/

· INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

13/11/2008 – Secretary of the Nanophotonics Technology Center, UPV (Valencia)

13/12/2013 – Member of the Doctorate Commission, UPV (Valencia)

· COMMISSIONS OF TRUST

2009, 2012 Member of the Commission for evaluation and selection of project proposals within the “Electronic and Communications Technology” Area, Spanish Subprogram of Fundamental Research Projects.

2006 – 2017 Evaluation of project proposals submitted in calls of the Spanish National Subprogram of Fundamental Research Projects for the Agencia Nacional de Evaluación y Prospectiva (ANEP). More than 30 project proposals evaluated.

2009 – 2015 Project proposal evaluator in French, Argentinian, German, Swiss, Polish, and European (FET-Open program) highly-competitive research project calls

Since 2004 Usual referee of journals such as Phys. Rev. Lett., Phys. Rev. B, Opt. Express, Opt. Lett., Appl. Phys. Lett., IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. and Lasers & Photon. Rev. (26 reviews for OSA, 42 reviews for APS, 17 reviews for IEEE). I have also reviewed manuscripts for Nature Nanotechnology, ACS Photonics, Nano Letters, Phys. Rev. Appl., or Nanoscale.

· MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES

- Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, since 2006); Senior Member of Optical Society of America (OSA, since 2016); Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE, since 2014).

- Member of Photonics21 (www.photonics21.org), active contributor to Working Group 6.

- Member of the Nanophotonics Europe Association (http://www.nanophotonicseurope.org/).

- Member of the European network FORESEEN (https://eledia.science.unitn.it/foreseen/).

· MAJOR COLLABORATIONS

1.Anatoly Zayats (ERC AdG grantee), plasmonics and metamaterials, King’s College London (UK).

2.Nader Engheta, plasmonics and metamaterials, University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), Philadelphia (USA).

3.Mario Silveirinha, THz plasmonics, University of Coimbra (Portugal).

4.Yasin Ekinci, plasmonics, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen (Switzerland).

5.Clivia Sotomayor-Torres, nanophotonics, ICN2, Barcelona (Spain).

6.Vincent Laude, silicon photonic crystals, Femto-ST (CNRS), Besançon (France).

7.Bahram Djafari-Rouhani, photonic-phononic crystals, IEMN, Lille (France).

8.José Sánchez-Dehesa, metamaterials, photonics, transformation techniques, UPV (Spain).

Early achievements track-record

Research record

My research career has been developed at the Nanophotonics Technology Center (NTC, www.ntc.upv.es), which is a research center located at UPV, where I lead now my own research group. My research activities have not only led to key publications in internationally renowned journals such as Science, Nature Comm., Nano Lett. and Phys. Rev. Lett., but have also resulted in seven invited talks, eight patents, and principal investigator of two STREP FP7 projects, seven national projects and four industrial contracts with ESA and EDA (totaling >2 M€ as PI). I started my research activities (2000-02) working in radio-on-fibre optical systems and networks. During that period I proposed and demonstrated a novel technique for simultaneous electro-optical modulation in baseband and radiofrequency, which was used afterwards as the modulation technique in the FP6 Project GANDALF (Ref. IST-507781), in which I was involved. During the 2002-04 period, I made my PhD Thesis on the implementation of passive optical components by 2D photonic crystals under the supervision of Prof. J. Martí. Just after finishing my PhD with the highest mark and getting a position as Assistant Lecturer at UPV, I became interested in negative refraction, plasmonics and metamaterials, making some important publications on this topic. This was the seed of the “Plasmonic metamaterials” research group at NTC, which I am currently leading, and the beginning of my career as an independent researcher in 2008. In parallel, from 2005 to 2008 I also participated as workpackage leader in the FP6 project PHOLOGIC (“Nanophotonic logic gates”, Ref. IST-NMP-17158), which dealt with the implementation of high-speed all-optical switching devices on silicon (selected paper [9]), and where I acquired skills on on-chip nonlinear all-optical processing. From 2008 till 2013 I participated as workpackage leader in a large Spanish project (Consolider programme, 3,5 M€ funding) on investigating the fundamental physics and developing new optical devices based on plasmonics and metamaterials (EMET, “Engineering metamaterials,” http://www.consolider-metamateriales.es/). Remarkably, in all the period after my PhD, I was a major contributor to the establishment of the NTC, which was founded officially in the year 2006 and nowadays is a reference centre for photonics and nanotechnology in Europe.

In my research career, I have been explored several fields including plasmonics, metamaterials, silicon nanoantennas, transformational techniques and optomechanical crystals. Concerning this last topic, I was the coordinator and PI of the FP7 FET-Open project TAILPHOX (“TAILoring photon-phonon interaction in silicon PHOXonic crystals”, Ref. 233883, www.tailphox.org).

Currently, my research interests are focused on bringing together all of the new concepts that I have learnt in recent years during my research in the topics mentioned above to improve current silicon photonic circuits as well as to create novel, advanced photonic functionalities on silicon. My group is now participating in the European Project PHENOMEN (http://phenomen-project.eu/), focused on building phononic functionalities in silicon chips.

Since 2001, I have co-authored more than 100 publications in international peer-reviewed journals, 22 of them as first author and 45 as corresponding author. Furthermore, I have also co-authored more than 100 publications in international conferences, including seven invited talks. My h-index is 28 according to Web of Science while the total number of citations is 2,556.

PI in international projects & contracts

I have been the PI of several projects and contracts funded by some of the most important European funding agencies: 2 STREP projects (FP7), 2 contracts with ESA, and 2 contracts with EDA. Besides, I have been also the PI in 7 Spanish projects of the most competitive calls. The total budget that I have received as PI over the last seven years is ~ 2.5 M€.

Key Publications

1. Alba Espinosa-Soria, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño, Amadeu Griol, and Alejandro Martínez, “On-chip optimal Stokes nanopolarimetry based on spin-orbit interaction of light,” Nano Lett. 17, 3139-3144 (2017).

2. F. J. Rodríguez-Fortuño, N. Engheta, A. Martínez and A. V. Zayats, “Lateral forces on circularly polarizable particles near a surface,” Nature Comm. 6, 8799 (2015).

3. F. J. Rodríguez-Fortuño, I. Barber-Sanz, D. Puerto, A. Griol, and A. Martínez, “Resolving light handedness with an on-chip silicon microdisk”, ACS Photon. 1, 762–767 (2014).

4. J. Gomis-Bresco, D. Navarro-Urrios, M. Oudich, S. El-Jallal, A. Griol, D. Puerto, E. Chavez, Y. Pennec, B. Djafari-Rouhani, F. Alzina, A. Martínez, and C. M. Sotomayor Torres. “A 1D Optomechanical crystal with a complete phononic band gap”, Nature Comm. 5, 4452 (2014).

5. F. J. Rodríguez-Fortuño, D. Puerto, A. Griol, L. Bellieres, J. Martí, and A. Martínez, “Universal method for the synthesis of arbitrary polarization states radiated by a nanoantenna,” Laser Photonics Rev. 8 (3), L27–L31 (2014).

6. M. Lorente-Crespo, L. Wang, R. Ortuño, C. Garcia-Meca, Y. Ekinci, and A. Martínez, “Magnetic Hot Spots in Closely Spaced Thick Gold Nanorings,” Nano Lett. 13 (6), 2654–2661 (2013).

7. F. J. Rodríguez-Fortuño, G. Marino, P. Ginzburg, D. O’Connor, A. Martínez, G. A. Wurtz, A. V. Zayats, “Near-Field Interference for the Unidirectional Excitation of Electromagnetic Guided Modes,” Science 340, 328-330 (2013).

8. C. García-Meca, J. Hurtado, J. Martí, A. Martínez, W. Dickson and A. V. Zayats, “Low-loss multilayered metamaterial exhibiting a negative index of refraction at visible wavelengths,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 067402 (2011).

9. A. Martínez, et al., “Ultrafast All-Optical Switching in a Silicon-Nanocrystal-Based Silicon Slot Waveguide at Telecom Wavelengths”, Nano Lett. 10 (4), 1506 (2010).

10. R. Ortuño, C. García-Meca, F. J. Rodríguez-Fortuño, J. Martí, and A. Martínez, “Role of surface plasmon polaritons on extraordinary optical transmission through double-layer metallic hole arrays", Phys. Rev. B 79, 075425 (2009).

Invited presentations in peer-reviewed conferences

I have presented seven invited talks in different conferences, being the most important:

· “Nonlinear Functionalities Implemented in Silicon-Compatible Materials: The PHOLOGIC Project Vision”, Invited oral presentation (NTuD6) in the OSA Topical Meeting on Nonlinear Photonics, September 2–6, 2007, Quebec City, Quebec (Canada).

· “Phoxonic crystals: tailoring the light-sound interaction at the nanoscale”, Invited oral presentation (8632-31) in the SPIE Photonics West 2013, Conference Photonic and Phononic Properties of Engineered Nanostructures III,” February 2–7, 2013, San Francisco (US).

· “Bringing Metamaterials, Plasmonics and Nanoantennas Concepts into Silicon Photonics”, Metamaterials’15, Oxford (UK), 7-11 September 2015.

· Alejandro Martínez, “Integration of metallic and dielectric nanostructures in silicon waveguides: properties and applications”, META’16, the 7th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics Convention & Exhibition Centre, Torremolinos (Malaga), Spain, July 25, 2016 – July 28, 2016.

· Alejandro Martínez, “Integration of subwavelength nanostructures in silicon waveguides: new phenomena and applications,” Metamaterials conference in SPIE Photonics Europe 2018, Strasbourg (France), 22-26 April 2018.

I have also given talks in some of the most prestigious conferences in optics: SPIE Photonics West (2002); ECOC (2003, 2006, 2014); SPIE Photonics Europe (2 talks in 2008, 1 in 2016); Group IV Photonics (1 talk in 2014).

Granted patents

My research has resulted in eight patents (three are in process), being the three most important:

· A. Martínez, C. García-Meca, J. Martí, “Optical security mark comprising metamaterials with a magnetic response, authentication method using said mark, and use of said mark applied to an object”, Pub. No.: WO/2010/109036, US Patent 8413908 B2,·filed: 03/26/2010, published: 04/09/2013

· J. García, J. Martí, A. Martínez, “Photonic sensing method and device,” Internat. App. No.: PCT/ES2010/070502, US Patent: US 9200997 B2, filed: 07/21/2010, published: 12/01/2015.

· F. J. Rodríguez-Fortuño, D. Puerto, A. Griol, A. Martínez. “Optical device and a method for synthesis of polarization of radiation that makes use of it”. Sol. number: P201430124, Regist. on 31/01/2014, in process.

· Alba Espinosa Soria, Amadeu Griol, Alejandro Martínez, “Device and method to measure the state of polarization of an incident beam,” Spanish Patent ES 2 566 684 B2, (Priority 2016-02-11 • Filing 2016-02-11 • Grant 2016-09-26 • Publication 2016-09-26).