01/01/2020 - New web
13/11/2018
Mini-talk. What do physicists research?
24/10/2018
Finished teaching (Physics II) for the while.
20/09/2018
Teaching starts: Quantum Physics II and Physics II
11/09/2018
Finished marking
03/09/2018
Back after holiday
16/08/2018
Paperwork + Erasmus paperwork
23/07/2018
Back after a stay in SCU (China)
19/06/2018
It is good to be back in the lab.
15/06/2018
Exams finished!
03/05/2018
Now marking :-(
24/04/2018
Visit from IUT Chalon (UB) for future Erasmus exchanges
17/04/2018
Paper acceptad in J. Mat. Chem C
13/03/2018
And now teaching at Education
28/02/2018
Teaching in my Faculty
13/02/2018
Back from ALBA
06/02/2018
Paper accepted in Scientific Reports
25/01/2017
New phone number
+34 942201508
18/12/2017
Proyect & CV approved for proper permanentship at UC
23/11/2017
Time granted for experiment at ALBA synchrotron.
16/11/2017
Exam at Chemical Engineering
27/10/2017
Paper accepted in JPCL
03/10/2017
We've got a new teaching lab at Chemical Engineering
21/09/2017
Teaching starts at the Chemical Engineering School
07/09/2017
Proposal sent to ALBA synchrotron.
24/08/2017
Testing the new equipment and doing paperwork.
21/08/2017
Back from holidays.
27/07/2017
Back from experiment at Diamond Synchrotron.
21/07/2017
Back from El Escorial - UCM Summer School
17/07/2017
Back from 10 days at Sichuan University. Sci. Rep. is out.
30/06/2017
Final year projects revised, info for synchrotron expt. submitted
26-28/06/2017
SR Proofs submitted, PBL (development) course finished
19/06/2017
Marking finished
05/06/2017
Paper accepted in Scientific Reports
28/05/2017
Course on Open Teaching and S. Networks finished
24/05/2017
Teaching is over. Now (more) marking :-(
02/05/2017
Experiments with Yiwei :-)
16/04/2017
Many tasks finished (working on bank holidays, though)
23-30/03/2017
So much teaching! Also, development course.
03/03/2017
Grant money is in. Finally I can spend it!
01/03/2017
15/02/2017
Collaborating with the Inorganic Chemistry Department.
06/02/2017
Second Term starts. Preparing notes for teaching (shortly)
19/12/2016
Time granted for Diamond experiment proposal
16/12/2016
Jorge returning to Mexico, after nice results here.
15/12/2016
Paper on Cs2CoCl4 accepted in Phys. Rev. B.
02/12/2016
Paper accepted in RSC Advances.
5/11/2016
Back from short trip to QMUL
14/11/2016
Science Week. Outreach with demonstrations & contest
10/11/2016
20/10/2016
We will have a new XRD system for teaching.
30/09/2016
Aula de la Ciencia Commitee meeting. Outreach issues.
29/09/2016
Plan Nacional proposal has been chosen for funding :-)
22/09/2016
Great positive final evaluation for the Marie Curie grant.
21/09/2016
Jorge from Mexico hsa arrived for a research stay.
08/09/2016
Elected for EHPRG commitee
04-09/09/2016
At EHPRG'54 Conference in Bayreuth. Interesting!
17-22/07/2016
At DPC'16 Conference in Paris. Interesting things.
6/06/2016
Marking
23/05/2016
20/05/2016
Heading to the synchrotron. Contribution accepted at EHPRG.
16/05/2016
P. of Materials lab teaching: Fe3O4 nanoparticles
02/05/2016
Teaching (DMNI) at the Faculty of Education.
18-21/04/2016
Experiment at ALBA synchrotron (line MSPD).
18/04/2016
Research Grant Proposal (PN) submitted.
14/04/2016
Abstract submitted to EHPRG.
21/03/2016
Talk accepted (DPC)
21/03/2016
8/03/2016
3-4/03/2016
22/02/2016
Emergency cleaning of the optics lab after small flood
12/02/2016
Back from Burgos, after visitin the Org. Chem. group
01/02/2016
In London, visiting QMUL.
28/12/2015
Paper on nanotubes at high pressure accepted in JPC C
16/12/2015
"Express" substitute teaching in Master module
14/12/2015
Enjoying high pressure lab work again
27/11/2015
Selected/Promoted to Prof. Contratado Doctor (Lecturer)
26/11/2015
15/11/2015
"New" (recycled) evaporator is mine!
17/10/2015
Handbook on P and C of RE with our chapter is out.
14/10/2015
Paper on NanoGe at HP accepted in Nanoletters
30/09/2015
HPCRE proofs re-corrected. TFGs(FYPs) for Education
21/09/2015
New web is up, but will update slowly
16/07/2015
Haizhou has successfully defended his PhD thesis
07/09/2015
The High Pressure group from Sichuan are visiting
30/08/2015-04/09/2015
AIRAPT-EHPRG Pressure Conference in Madrid
13/08/2015
Experiment is working! In the lab with Dr. A. Franco
17/07/2015
Yiwei has successfully defended his PhD thesis
16/07/2015
Paper accepted in Bioconjugate Chem.
15/07/2015
Vanessa successfully defended her master thesis
12/07/2015
Miguel presented his final year project with success
06/07/2015-16/07/2015
Materials Workshop and UIP in Sichuan University
25/06/2015
Paper accepted in RSC Advances
02/06/2015
Now marking.
25/05/2015
Writing. Paperwork. Projects.
04/05/2015
Teaching Didáctica del Medio Natural I (in Education)
13/04/2015
14/03/2015
Abstracts submitted for AIRAPT-EHPRG-Madrid
02/03/2015
Teaching Multidisciplinary Laboratory (1st year Physics)
27/02/2015
Final year project in Education defense.
26/02/2015
23/02/2015
Revision of chapter submitted after nice editing
19-20/02/2015
Innovative teaching techniques course
13/02/2015
Intellectual Property course (including new Spanish law)
14/01/2015
Book chapter submitted
30/12/2014
Draft of the book chapter circulated
16/12/2014
Member of Aula de la Ciencia (UC Outreach) commitee
7-15/12/2014
Ill. Unable to attend experiment at Soleil
13-14/11/2014
Attending a leadership and teamwork course
06/11/2014
Science Weeks
20/10/2014
Moodle course and nano-story contest (with gold prize)
08/10/2014
Possitively appraised by EU
03/10/2014
New Zn complexes measured in the lab
10/09/2014
Supercontinuum laser coupled to the PL system
10/09/2014
Pablo Martin-Ramos's paper accepted in J. Alloy. Compd.
01/09/2014
Reporting to sponsors (EU)
29/08/2014
18/08/2014
Paper on Er3+ upconversion accepted in PCCP
18/08/2014
In London
25/07/2014
So much refereeing this season
29/06/2014
U. of Extremadura course on IP in academia finished
25/06/2014
NOW finished marking. Only revisions to finish!
12/06/2014
19/05/2014
Back from "PL of Rare Earths" (PRE-14) Conference
05/05/2014
Teaching Didáctica del Medio Natural I (Química)
15/04/2014
Paper on new chromophores for Er(III) accepted in JPCL
24/03/2014
18/03/2014
6 little solar cells have arrived
3/03/2014
Teaching L. Multidisciplinar
24/02/2014
Teaching Lab. Física IV
21/02/2014
Practicum meetings.
6 little lasers have arrived
20/02/2014
Paperwork done.
07/02/2014
Paper on organo-Erbium accepted in Nature Materials
3-7/02/2014
Yiwei visiting for more Raman measurements.
30/01/2014
Attending a course on web 2.0 tools for teaching.
20/12/2013
Conference Paper accepted in HPR.
16/12/2013
Back to the lab after bad flu
2-6/12/2013
Yiwei is in our lab again
28-30/11/2013
Honored to be hosting the deans of Physics, SCU
21/11/2013
Back from 2 days in London.
6-11/11/2013
Semana de la Ciencia. Outreach activities
15/10/2013
Paper on Er3+ complexes accepted in J.Phys.Chem C
11/10/2013
03/10/2013
Stone, from QMUL, is visiting
05/09/2013
Invited talk at EHPRG'51
03/09/2013
Meeting friends and collaborators in London
02/09/2013
Co-chairing oral session @ EHPRG'51 conference
10/08/2013
Hard work in the lab these days. But interesting results.
23/07/2013
Meeting at International Office
11/07/2013
Back from Sichuan University.
03/07/2013
Patent filed.
13/06/2013
Success in the lab with Dr. A. Franco (UNAM). New setup!
31/05/2013
15/05/2013
Intensive lab work with Yiwei
06/05/2013
16-18/04/2013
Meetings in London
15/04/2013
14/04/2013
Paper accepted in Physical Review Letters
11/04/2013
Experiment in the lab!
18-20/03/2013
Meetings in London.
11/03/2013
London Calling. Huanqing´s got really fantastic results.
8/03/2013
Teaching. Propuestos trabajos de Fin de Grado.
25/02/2013
20/02/2013
Back from London.
15/02/2013
No ERC Grant :-(
28/01/2013
Paper accepted in Physical Review B.
12/01/2013
Paper accepted in ChemComm.
27/12/2012
Paper accepted in Inorg. Chem.
18/12/2012
Venia Docendi and teaching approved in Dept. meeting.
14/12/2012
23-30/11/2012
Yiwei is visiting for HP Raman measurements
23/11/2012
12-14/11/2012
Off to QMUL in London
9/11/2012
17/10/2012
ERC Starting Grant Submitted!
05/10/2012
05/10/2012
Refereeing 4 papers!
23/09/2012
Back from EHPRG'50 in Greece
14/09/2012
Meeting friends/collaborators in London
01/09/2012
Marie Curie Project Starts!
15/08/2012
at Sichuan University in Chengdu
13/08/2012
@Rare Earth KSL - Peking Uni: Impressed!
06/08/2012
1/08/2012
15/07/2012
ISIS: muons + laser + interesting samples.
6/07/2012
Started at Universidad de Cantabria :-)
26/06/2012-5/07/2012
In Nanjing and Chengdu (China)
25/05/2012
Very promising results by Huanqing
01-03/05/2012
Examining 3rd and Final year projects
25-28/04/2012
XRD/EXAFS under pressure. Experiment @ Diamond
10/04/2012
Deadline met!
29/03/2012
Lecture series finished.
21/03/2012
In Denmark, meeting with the FET proposal partners
13/03/2012
OPO Training Session.
12/03/2012
New laser is here. Niranjeni is back.
04/03/2012
No luck with ERC proposal. Not bad evaluation though.
8/02/2012
Meeting with collaborators for preparing FET proposal
1/02/2012
SHG ready for ISIS
20/01/2012
Time granted in Diamond
13/01/2012
The FET European proposal has gone to 2nd stage!
13/01/2012
Attending another course on lab safety...
08/12/2011
Paper on NTs at High Pressure accepted
07/12/2011
Many deadlines fulfilled. New ideas, new materials!
27/09/2011
One of the nanotubes papers has been accepted
26/09/2011
Back from conference
15/09/2011
Deadlines fulfilled
18/08/2011
@ the Anglo-Chinese workshop on OSC
11/08/2011
OA at high pressure.
1/08/2011
Niranjeni's back.
21/07/2011
Intense days in the lab.
12/07/2011
At ISIS: UV lasers and muons.
5/07/2011
New materials. Lots of experiments.
28/06/2011
New microfocus/pump-probe setup.
21/06/2011
Prof. Valkunas seminar.
16/06/2011
Chemistry: bomb & more
13/06/2011
Back from Spain. Comms accepted for RSEF2011
31/05/2011
New laser has arrived.
25/05/2011
In the cleanroom.
16/05/2011
Back from a working holiday in Spain with new ideas.
12/05/2011
New promising material.
07/05/2011
New web launched, together with the CMMP's
05/05/2011
Interviewing PhD candidate.
04/05/2011
More project marking.
27/04/2011
Project marking.
15/04/2011
F. Rodriguez's seminar. Nice showing him around.
12/04/2011
SHG - Excitation in the UV
04/04/2011
Paper accepted in ChemComm :-)
28/03/2011
New small proposal written.
25/03/2011
Seminar on UC given to the group.
23/03/2001
Experiments&New collaboration on sight
18/03/2011
2nd, 3rd and 4rth year projects proposed
15/03/2011
Altruistically contributing to science.
14/03/2011
10/03/2011
Proposal sent, back in the lab.
04/03/2011
Nice collaboration in sight.
01/03/2011
Nice experiment, intriguing results.
22/02/2011
Teaching in the Plastic Electronics DTC.
16/02/2011
Niranjeni at her best. Loads of new samples :-)
2/02/2011
Great muons & spectroscopy discussion with champagne
31/01/2011
Chinese student allocated for next year.
28/01/2011
Raman system working.
24/01/2011
Harder chemistry involving organics & Soxhlet extraction
14/01/2011
Easy chemistry with inorganics.
11/01/2011
Setting and optical absorption setup
23/12/2010
Tm/Yb UC paper accepted :-)
15/12/2010
Department and Group meeting.
10/12/2010
PhD projects proposed.
7/12/2010
Plumbing for science!
30/11/2010
Back from my paternity leave.
23/11/2010
Niranjeni has passed is transfer viva.
15/11/2010
Altruistically contributing to the Scientific community.
7/11/2010
Starting to ball-mill with the help of Luis and Cristina.
2/11/2010
Teaching Huanqing how to use the PL system
1/11/2010
Niranjeni has submitted her transfer report.
25/10/2010
With Huanqing, the new student.
21/10/2010
Mq3 beta-phase
14/10/2010
Meeting the Vice-Principal
8/10/2010
Back from Diamond. Gem broken but experiment done!
1/10/2010
28/09/2010
In Oxford loading a cell with Helium
25/09/2010
Outreach for Physics at the Campus Visit Day.
22/09/2010
Paper refereed. I recommend publication.
21/09/2010
Correcting proofs.
17/09/2010
13/09/2010
09/09/2010
Exciting excitation experiments
06/09/2010
UC in organics paper accepted in Adv. Mater.
03/09/2010
Learning how to use the "big" evaporation system
30/08/2010
Working "holidays" in Spain
20/08/2010
19/08/2010
More interesting UC stuff. More work needed.
17/08/2010
Paper refereed. I recommend major changes.
13/08/2010
Measurements in organolanthanides with Bui
12/08/2010
Measurements on Zn with Sabina, Iver and Andrei
5/08/2010
I will have a FRAEng Mentor :-)
29/07/2010
Nice measurements on nanoparticles
23/07/2010
Laser ablation is running!
22/07/2010
Paper on Ho-Yb UC in oxides accepted.
20/07/2010
Well-behaved new samples synthesised by Bui.
16/07/2010
Risking my eyesight for laser ablation experiments.
14/07/2010
Meetings all day after crazy days writing and in the lab.
25/06/2010
Project student allocated.
21/06/2010
Optical absorption on nanoparticles with Andrei.
14/06/2010
Buithi starts her EPSRC internship today.
11/06/2010
Meeting on the evaluation of research.
7/06/2010
Preparing new samples, writing, editing...
1/06/2010
The piece for adapting the Raman is ready & working.
27/05/2010
10 hours and results for a paper. It sounds easy...
19/05/2010
Interviewing candidate for DTC programme.
14/05/2010
Hard work with tunable raman. Design finished.
07/05/2010
EPSRC Vacation bursary awarded for summer student
5/05/2010
Attended to Sir R. Penrose's talk. Interesting cosmology!
30/04/2010
1 instrument 4 Raman & life time@ HP.Coupling in prep
21/04/2010
16/04/2010
4 Abstracts submitted to 3 Conferences
14/04/2010
Spectroscopy lab re-arranged. Better than ever!
12/04/2010
Very interesting discussion with Isabelle about Ho-Yb
8/04/2010
Tunable Raman!! Goal achieved, we've to celebrate!
6/04/2010
1/04/2010
Cleanroom optical tables rearranged
25/03/2010
Working in the lab is such fun! :-)
19/03/2010
The J. Mat. Chem. UC paper on oxides is online.
18/02/2010
CMP Proposal writing away day in Whitechapel.
12/03/2010
Excellent CMP seminar! (and discussion at the pub!)
11/03/2010
We've got Er(F-tpip)3.
05/03/2010
Why are all proposals at the same time?
27/02/2010
Teaching and meetigs over, time to write & experiments.
12/02/2010
Niranjeni's giving the group seminar on UC in organics.
07/02/2010
Evaporation ok. Notes for DTC teaching finished.
05/02/2010
Evaporating Zn complex with Li. J. Mat. Chem. accepted.
02/02/2010
Samples flop. Contaminated or decomposed. :-(
01/02/2010
Nice paper refereed. I recommend publication.
29/01/2010
Ideas for new ligands. Ordering precursors.
26/01/2010
Nice paper found. Running some MATLAB simulations.
19/01/2010
OPO+Raman. I ♥ new experimental setups.
18/01/2010
Sensitized UC/QC MSci/PhD proposal selected @ DTC!!
14/01/2010
PL experiments in the new Zn complex.
13/01/2010
04/01/2010
It is impressive how the labs have grown in Santander!!
03/01/2010
Simulations in MATLAB. Sketching a proposal.
01/01/2010
Happy New Year!!.
30/12/2009
Proofs for the Cr3+ PRB paper corrected.
16/12/2009
Spectroscopy in organolanthanides.
15/12/2009
Raman at high pressure.
15/12/2009
Paper on Cr3+ accepted in Physical Review B.
10/12/2009
High pressure, inorganics, Er-Yb upconversion.
8/12/2009
Proposal for a Master/PhD to DTC on Plastic Electronics.
4/12/2009
1/12/2009
26/11/2009
21/11/2009
"Habilitado" in my birthday.
17/11/2009
ImpactQM launched. It sounds very interesting.
13/11/2009
Raman refurbished. Better than double!
6/11/2009
It seems Niranjeni's got the ligand! :-)
24/10/2009
24/10/2009
Visitor from Cambridge's finished. Nice results.
22/10/2009
Inorganics are so well-behaved...
21/10/2009
XRD proposal submitted to Diamond.
15/10/2009
OPO laser fixed. Evaporator working.
2/10/2009
Paper refereed. I suggest not publishing.
1/10/2009
24/09/2009
More experiments done. Refereeing again.
23/09/2009
Group name change. Now Condensed Matter Physics.
17/09/2009
Laser computer HD failure
:-(
16/09/2009
Correcting profs & working with Niranjeni in the lab.
11/09/2009
Nanovision is cool. Reading literature like crazy.
8/09/2009
Back from holidays. Mq3 paper accepted in JPCB.
20/08/2009
Analysis almost finished. Interesting new things.
19/08/2009
Good discussion and new ideas from visitor.
17/08/2009
Referee report received. Answered.
7/08/2009
Intensive lab sessions. And analysis!!
4/08/2009
Interesting works at Tokyo. Mine were appreciated too.
24/07/2009
Seminar today. Off to Japan tomorrow.
20/07/2009
I recommend big revision or rejection for reviewed paper.
17/07/2009
Samples dry. UC confirmed. Master projects proposed.
16/07/2009
OPO fixed to specifications.
12/07/2009
Working on the AIRAPT talk & poster.
3/07/2009
Nice white PL from Zn complex.
2/07/2009
Paper refereed. I recommend further revision. It's not bad.
27/06/2009
Upconversion!
20/06/2009
High pressure experiment! New results.
16/06/2009
New IR laser delivered!
2/06/2009
Doing some more Chemistry with Niranjeni (ok... cookery, according to Peter)
31/05/2009
Paper about OLED materials submitted.
11/05/2009
Writing a bloody long paper about OLED materials.
10/05/2009
Home page completely changed. Paperblog redesigned and updated.
