Julio Ramírez Castellanos

Professor, Universidad Complutense De Madrid, Spain

Julio Ramírez-Castellanos graduated with a BAS (Bachelor of Science degree) in Solid State Chemistry at Complutense University of Madrid. His PhD degree was on the synthesis and structural characterization of high Tc superconducting materials. This PhD served as an introduction to many chemical methods needed for the preparation of new materials, and the application of electron microscopy techniques used to characterize and understand the relationships between structure and properties. Dr. Ramirez-Castellanos also visited/worked at/studied at several European research centers, including the Laboratoire de Cristallograhie (CNRS) in Grenoble (FR). He was an active participant in Prof. Maximo Marezio´s working group, under the supervision of Dr. J. J. Capponi. Ramirez-Castellanos also joined at Prof. S. Palmer's group, at Physics Department in Warwick University, Coventry (UK). Furthermore, Dr. Ramirez-Castellanos studied the determination of crystal structures, and the processing of electronic images obtained through electron microscopy with Prof. Sven Hovmoller, in Arrhenius Laboratory at Structural Chemistry Department, Stockholm University (SE). For several years after that, he completed research with a postdoctoral fellowship in order to study with Dr. Yoshio Matsui at the National Institute for Materials Science (N.I.M.S) in Tsukuba (JP). Dr. Ramírez-Castellanos completed his research and studies on new functional materials, using a Hitachi H-1500 ultra-high-resolution and ultra-high voltage transmission electron microscope (U-HRTEM), operated at 1300 kV. At the same time, he also collaborated with Prof. Ryozo Yoshizaki at the Applied Physics Institute and Cryogenic Center in the Faculty of Engineering at Tsukuba University (JP). Dr. Ramírez-Castellanos returned to Madrid, and joined the Inorganic Functional Materials Group, at Inorganic Chemistry Department in Universidad de Complutense de Madrid (UCM). His research mainly based on the synthesis, optical properties and structural/microstructural characterizations of nanomaterials.