Rosa María de la Cruz

Associate Professor, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain

Rosa María de la Cruz is an Associate Professor since 1998 at the Carlos III University of Madrid in the department of Physics. She has a doctorate in Physical Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid (1990). Prof. de la Cruz is an expert in the use of the continuous dielectric model applied to the study of interface phonons in low-dimensional semiconductor nanostructures (quantum wells, quantum wires and quantum dots).

This researcher has had around twenty research projects with national funding (Ministry of Education and Science as instigator), Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (as main researcher), Carlos III University of Madrid (as main researcher) and Community of Madrid (as a researcher). During the years 2001- 2006, Prof. de la Cruz has been part of the organizing committee of the international conferences “Trends in Nanotechnology”. She has supervised two doctoral theses. One defended in 2004 at the Univ. Carlos III of Madrid with the qualification of Outstanding Cum Laude and Extraordinary Prize of the Materials Engineering and Science Program (Dr. Clément Kanyinda-Malu). The other was defended in 2008 at the Univ. Complutense of Madrid with the qualification of Outstanding Cum Laude (Dr. Silvia Santalla). She has also supervised 5 final year projects, a final degree project (2015) and has co-directed a Diploma of Advanced Studies (2008). She is currently supervising a final degree project that will be defended in July 2024. Regarding her contribution in evaluation processes, her collaboration with ANEP during 2005- 2006 and 2022 stands out. She has also contributed to the evaluation of the EXPLORA projects in 2014 and in an international project in Chile (2014). She is a reviewer for scientific journals such as: Nanotechnology, Physica B, Physica Status Solidi, Physica D, Fizika A–B, Journal of Physics: Condens. Matter, Semiconductor Science and Technology, among others.