Ana Cremades

Director General of Research and Technological Innovation. Previously, Professor of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering in the Department of Materials Physics at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). She has held several university management positions such as Deputy Director of Research of the General Foundation of the UCM (FGUCM), Director of the Complutense Cycle of Science and Technology of the FGUCM, Coordinator of the Master in Applied Physics of the UCM, member of the Coordinating Committee of the Master in Nanophysics and Advanced Materials and member of the International PhD Committee in Atomic and Molecular Photonics of the European laboratory LENS representing the UCM. She has also been a member of the C9 Accreditation Commission. Chemical, Materials and Natural Environment Engineering of the National Programme for Access to University Teaching Staff of the ANECA (ACADEMIA Programme). Throughout her career she has held representative positions in the Senate of the UCM and in the Faculty Board of the Faculty of Physical Sciences of the UCM and has been President of the Board of Teaching and Research Staff (PDI) of the UCM. She has promoted multiple collaboration agreements between public and private entities with the UCM, including the Nanotechnology Forum within the Fundación Telefónica's Creamos el Futuro activity and other actions such as "Prescribe Science" with the Cervantes Institute and the National Museum of Science and Technology, "Ambassadors of Science" with the MUNCYT, and the "Polar Route" with the Polar Routes Association. She has also been principal investigator of national and international projects and art. 83 contracts with companies. She has carried out research stays abroad at Siemens (Munich), at the University of Aveiro, and at the Walter Schottky Institute of the Technical University of Munich. She is the author of 151 publications, most of them in high impact journals (Nanoletters, Chem. Mater., J. Mat. Chem. A, 2D Materials, Nano Research, J. Phys. Chem. C, APL, Nanotechnology, etc) and has presented more than 150 communications at international conferences. She has also participated as author/editor in 12 books. Her inventive activity has resulted in 5 patents, two of which were finalists in the Emerging Technologies Competition of the Royal Chemistry Society in 2015. He has 4 six-year research periods and 1 six-year transfer period.