Francisco Rivadulla Fernández

Tel.: 
+34 8818 15724
Email: 
f.rivadulla [at] usc.es
Departamento: 
Química Física
Grupo de investigación: 
Catedrático

Francisco Rivadulla (A Pobra do Caramiñal, 1973)  graduated in Chemistry at the University of Santiago de Compostela, USC, in 1996. In 2001 he obtained the PhD at the Physical chemistry Department of the same university (“Magnetotransport and Electron Spin Resonance in Magnetoresistive Manganites”).

He performed a two years (2001-2003) postdoctoral stay as a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, in the laboratory of Prof. John B. Goodenough, and shorter stays at Austin and Los Alamos National Lab. During this time he worked in the problem of metal-insulator transitions induced by electronic correlations in solids (Mott-Hubbard transitions), developing the idea of an intrinsic coupling between the electronic and lattice degrees of freedom in magnetic insulators that approach the itinerant electron limit.

In 2004 he joined the University of Santiago de Compostela as a Ramón y Cajal fellow, and since 2009 he is Associate Professor. Since 2010 he is the group leader of the Condensed Matter Chemistry Lab (CmCLab), at CIQUS. The main interest of his group is the development of new materials for thermoelectric energy conversion, as well as the basic aspects (electronic and transport properties, magnetic structure, etc.) of strongly correlated electron systems. In the las few years his research focused on the development of active materials for thermal transport, including the development of experimental equipment for measuring the thermal conductivity of liquids (microvolumes) and nanostructures.

Dr. Francisco Rivadulla published around 110 papers (not including conference papers), which have been cited around 5000 times, resulting in an h-index of 37 (Google Scholar 2021), supervised 10 thesis and several postodcs and undergrad students.

He was the recipient of an ERC-Starting Grant in 2010, to develop the project “Design of new thermoelectric devices based on 2D and field modulated nanostructures”, during the following five years. In 2017 he started the ERC-Proof of Concept project "ANTS": A new technology of microthermal sensing for application in microcalorimetry. He has been the PI of several national and regional projects.