Aragón Nanoscience and Materials Institute
October 16
Javier Campo (Physicist) made his doctoral thesis in 1995, at the Aragón Materials Science Institute (ICMA), join research institute between the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the University of Zaragoza, on the magnetism of “disordered materials and spin glasses”.
Later he moved to the University of Montpellier where he made a post-doctoral stay of 2 years working on the magneto-optical properties of hexagonal GaN wide gap semiconductor. Several of his works were published with Prof S Nakamura, whom in 2014 received the Noble Prize in Physics.
From 1998 to 2002 Dr. J Campo was appointed by the CSIC as scientist responsible for the CRG-D1B at the Institute Laue Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble (France) and in 2003 he joined the ICMA as a researcher under the prestigious Spanish talent program “Ramón y Cajal” where he continued heading the Spanish CRG at the ILL, including the CRG-D15 and the new XtremeD instruments.
He was Director of the ICMA institute (more than 300 staff) from 2012 to 2020. His scientific interest is focused on the study of “Magnetic Chirality” and “Purely organic magnets” by using neutron scattering techniques and recently he started to work on “in operando studies of materials for energy applications” by using also neutron and Xray scattering.
Prof. Javier Campo is the author of more than 180 scientific papers and main researcher in more than 55 research projects. He has supervised 8 doctoral theses and has held several international membership, among others; Presidency of the Spanish Neutron Scattering Association, vice-presidency of the European Neutron Scattering Association (ENSA), Spanish delegate at the ILL Steering Committee, Chair of the VI European Conference on Neutron Scattering held in Zaragoza, member of the international advisory board of Global Institute for Materials Research Tohoku (Japan), international advisory board of the Dan Benninson Institute of Nuclear Technology (Argentina), member of the Aragon Committee for Science, Technology and innovation, and Chair of the Spanish Committee for Large Scale Scientific Facilities
