Short Bio
Dr. Barranco received his BA in Physical Chemistry from the University of Granada (1995) and his PhD from the University of Sevilla in 2002. After three postdoctoral periods in the CNRS (Poitiers, France, 2002), EMPA-ETH (Switzerland 2003-2004), and the University of Seville (Ramon y Cajal fellow (2005-2006) he got a tenured position in the National Research Council of Spain (CSIC) in 2007. Since 2016, he is a Senior Scientist at the Materials Science Institute of Seville (ICMS-CSIC-US). His scientific career is focused on developing multifunctional materials in the form of thin films, multilayered supported nanostructures, and functional surfaces by plasma and vacuum techniques, including the development of devices (photonic sensors, solar cells, optical devices). He is the Group Leader of the Nanotechnology and Plasma Group in the ICMS. He has co-authored 150 research articles and 13 patents and supervised 9 doctoral theses.