Name : Alfonso SAN MIGUEL Born 01/08/1964 at Madrid (Spain

Name : Alfonso SAN MIGUEL
Born 01/08/1964 at Madrid (Spain)
Professeur, Université Lyon 1, France
Academy
• 89 University Graduation :, B. Sc. in Physics, University Central de Barcelona, Spain
• 93 Doctorate : PhD Thesis at the University Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris 6
• 00 Habilitation Thesis, University Lyon-1
Job carrier
• 89-90 Teacher at “Centro de Estudios Politécnicos” Barcelone (Espagne)
• 90-93 PhD student. LURE (Orsay) and Lab. de Physique des Milieux Condensées (Paris VI)
• 93-97 "Beamline scientist" followed by "Beamline responsible" au European Synchrotron
Radiaton Facility (ESRF), Grenoble
• 1997 Associated professor (Maître de Conférences),University Lyon 1
• 2003 Professor (2nd class). University Lyon 1
• 2009 Professor (1st class). University Lyon 1
• 2012 Professor (Exceptional class), University Lyon 1
International involvement
International responsabilities
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Since 2012. Member of the « Science Advisory Committee » of the European Synchrotron Radiation
Facility (ESRF)
Since 2012. Member of the Scientific Selection panel « Crystals and Ordered Structures » of the
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF).
2006-2010 ember of the Scientific Selection panel «Solid state physics / Materials / Nano-sciences :
electronic properties» of the SOLEIL French National facility (Saclay, France.
2008-2011. Member of the “Science Advisory Committee” of the European High Pressure Research
Group. (http://www.ehprg.org/)
2007-2012. Vice-chairman of the Special Group of Interest « Crystallography at Extreme Conditions »
of the « European Crystallography Association ».
Since 2008. Editor of the International journal «Advances in Condensed Matter Physics »
Congress organization
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Chairman of the 52ème European High Pressure Research Group Conference to be held at Lyon in 2014.
Chairman of the XV International High Pressure Conference of Physics of Semiconductors
(Montpellier, june 2012) (co-chairman : L. Konczewicz)
Chairman of the Microsymposium “Nanocrystallography” at the 25th European Crystallographic
Meeting ECM25, Istanbul, Turkey, August 16-21, 2009 ( Co-chairman, L. Dubrovinsky (Bayerishes
Geoinstitut, Allemagne)
Member of the organization comitty of schools and workshops :
o « The structure and dynamics of the liquid and glassy states: x-ray and complementary
methods », 22 - 23 May 2000, ESRF, Grenoble. (80 participants)
o School “European pre-conference school of the 47th EHPRG”, 4-6 augoust 2009, SOLEIL
(Saclay, France)
o GdRI Graphene et Nanotubes 2012 (Lyon, France)
Member of th International Scientific Commeetee of International Conferences:
- 50th EHPRG (European High Pressure Research Group), Sept 2012, Thessaloniki (Greece)
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- The 14th International Conference on High Pressure Semiconductor Physics Jilin University,
Changchun, China, Aug 1st -4th (2010)
- 46th EHPRG, Valencia (Espagne) 7-12 Septembre 2008.
- 14th International Symposium of Intercalated Compounds, Seoul (Corée) Juin 2007.
Chairman of workshop "Data Analysis and Code Evaluation" at XAFS IX (International Conference on
X-ray Absorption) (Grenoble, august 1996)
37 Invitations to PhD and habilitation panels: 29 for PhD, 8 habilitation. 5 jurys in foreign countries
(UK, Sweden, Spain)
Scientific Responsabilities
Direction
- From 2013. Deputy Director of Institut Lumière Matière (Univ Lyon 1 and CNR). Staff : 300 people
- 2011-2012. Director of Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée et Nanostructures (LPMCN,
Univ Lyon 1 and CNR). Staff : 125 people.
2009-2010. Deputy Director of LPMCN
- Since 2010. Scientific Directeur of the University Lyon 1 Common Center of Diffractometry (1 engineer
and a technician; 3 diffractometers)
- Founder in 2002 and scientific director of the University Lyon 1 Common Center of Extreme Conditions
Experimentation, (staff : 3 engineers and 2 techniciens. Center shared with the Lyon Geology Lab.
Other responsability
- Since 1999. Group leader of the team « Extreme Conditions and Metastability » (staff :16 people. 7
research, 3 support and 6 non permanent)
- Since 2011. Membre du Comité de Pilotage (3 personnes) et du Bureau (12 membres) du Labex iMUST
(Institute oe MUltiscale Science and Technologie) regroupant plus de 40 équipes de recherche d’une
vingtaine de laboratoires.
Coordination of Scientific Projects
Only mentioned projects with a duration of 2 years or more in which I was PI
National
- 2012-2016. ANR Projet P2N «Control of carbon nanotube collapse under pressure ». 4 academic
research teams and 1 industrial partner.
- 2007-2011. Project for the development of a pedagogy platform for high pressure experimentation
(Pedagogic platforms supported by Region-Country Plans).
- 2006-2009. ANR Project PNANO (PNAN006-0050 ) «Electronic Transport in individual carbon
nanotubes under pressure ». 3 research teams
- 2003-2005 ACI Nanosciences . « Synthesis and properties of novel nanomaterials under high pressure
and high temperature »
- 2003-2005 ACI Young Scientist « Mateiral synthesis at high pressure and high temperature (0-20 GPa,
300-2300K) ».
International
- 2008-2012. CAPES-COFECUB Project with the University Fédéral du Ceara (Brésil). Prof. A. Gomes de
Souza Filho « Carbon nanotubes under extreme conditions: mechanical and chemical effects »
- 2006-2007. Hubert Curien « Picasso » project with Université de La Laguna (Espagne). Prof. A. Munoz
« Cage-type nanomaterials under extreme conditions :properties and elaboration ».