Landa Cánovas, Angel Roberto

I am a Senior Scientist at the Madrid Institute of Materials Science (ICMM) of the Council Superior of Scientific Investigations (CSIC). I got a PhD in Chemistry from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1993 and did a postdoctoral stay at the Lund University (36 months). I worked as a Faculty Assistant at the University Complutense de Madrid (8 months) and later as a Higher Graduate at the Centro de Electron microscopy at the Complutense University of Madrid (6 years). In 2003 I moved to the Institute of Materials Science of Madrid (ICMM) with a Ramón and Cajal contract and where, since 2008, I am a Senior Scientist. My scientific career, started in the year 1989, has been dedicated to the crystallographic study of inorganic materials by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), mainly using electron diffraction and high-resolution TEM (HRTEM) and relying on associated spectroscopic techniques such as X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy (XEDS) and electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS). For this I have worked with a wide variety of TEM equipment both during my thesis at the Complutense University of Madrid and during my post-doctorate at the National Center for HRTEM at Lund University. During my stay at the UCM Microscopy Center I was responsible for the first transmission electron microscope with field emission gun in Spain. Among other materials I have worked on laminar sulfides, carbon nanostructured materials, mixed oxides catalysts and thin-film materials for photoelectric cells. The results of this work have appeared in 89 publications in scientific journals international books and 4 chapters in collective books that have been cited in more than 1100 publications. Finally, I have complemented my scientific career with teaching (doctorate courses and postgraduate), the direction of three doctoral theses and tasks of scientific dissemination with 4 chapters in books.