MIGUEL ÁNGEL
FERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ

Miguel Angel Fernandez-Rodriguez, born in Malaga (Spain), is a physicist focusing in Material Science of surfaces and interfaces. He obtained his PhD in Physics in 2015 in the Lab of Surface and Interface Physics (LSIP), in the Biocolloid and Fluid Physics group, Department of Applied Physics, University of Granada, Spain. He first worked increasing the osseointegration of titanium implants by engineering their wettability. Next, he characterized the interfacial activity of Janus nanoparticles at water/oil interfaces compared to homogeneous counterparts. In 2016, he joined the Soft Materials and Interfaces group in ETH-Zurich for 3.5 years as a PostDoc, collaborating with IBM, focusing in the soft colloidal lithography and sequential capillary assembly techniques. In 2020, he joined the Soft Condensed Matter Lab in the University of Barcelona thanks to a Marie Curie Beatriu de Pinós grant to develop the soft colloidal lithography and increase the efficiency of solar cell panels, and interrupted this grant to join the LSIP as a Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación fellow. In 2022, he was awarded an Emergia grant. He obtained more than 100k € in funding as sole PI of a National Research Project in 2021 on soft colloidal lithography, and has communicated this activity in the form of 34 JCR publications with 1046 citations (WoS, 1277 in Scholar), 1 chapter in the Elsevier’s Encyclopedia of Interfacial Chemistry, and a H-index of 17 (WoS, 20 in Scholar). He maximized their impact by publishing 10 in decile D1 journals (Nature, Nature Communications, ACS Nano, Nano Letters, Lab on a Chip, etc). He currently has a contract with EMPA (Switzerland) advising on colloidal lithography. Currently he is supervising 1 PostDoc, and 2 PhD students on different aspects of the soft colloidal lithography, plus 1 Initiation grant and 1 Erasmus+ PhD student.