MSc in Physics (1998) University of Oviedo, Spain, PhD in Physics (2001) University of Duisburg-Essen, postdoctoral research (2001-2023) in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara (USA), Assistant Professor (2004), then full professor (2012) within the Department of Physics, University of Central Florida. Professor of Solid State Physics at Ruhr-University Bochum (2013). Director of the Interface Science Department at the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin since 2017. In addition, interim director of the Inorganic Chemistry Department since April 2023.