Biographical note

Joan J. Carvajal obtained his Bachelor in Chemistry (1997), Master in Experimental Chemistry (2001) and PhD in Chemistry (2003, FI fellowship) at the University Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain, developing self-frequency doubling lasers. After occupying a post-doctoral Fulbright fellow position during 2 years at Stony Brook University, working on crystal growth of nanostructures of wide bandgap semiconductor through Chemical Vapor Deposition, in 2006 he was awarded with a Ramon y Cajal position in Materials Science, back at the URV, where he is Associate Professor since 2011.

He is co-author of more than 225 papers in international scientific journals. 

He has supervised 8 PhD Thesis in the fields of integrated photonics, structuration of non-linear optical materials to develop diffraction gratings, the concept of down-shifting in polymeric solar cells to increase their efficiency, production of porous GaN through CVD and luminescence nano thermometry. At present, he is supervising 2 additional PhD Theses on developing luminescent carbonaceous materials that can act simultaneously as catalysts and luminescent sensors of temperature, pH and pressure, and measuring the impact of the training programs for doctoral supervisors.

He is the Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry of the URV since 2022. Since 2019 he is Visiting Professor at the Harbin Engineering University (Harbin, China). He is also founding member of the Group of Trainers for the Professionalization of the Doctoral Supervision at the URV.

Maria Cinta Pujol born in 1973, is a member of the Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry at the URV M. C. Pujol’s research career started in 1997, with her collaboration in the research performed in the group of physical chemistry, just after she became a member of the group Physics and Crystallography of Materials. 

M.C. Pujol graduated from URV with a degree in Chemistry in 1996 and later achieved a PhD from the same University in 2001. From that time, she has been always working in the field of material physics, and more specially related with optical materials. During her post-doctoral stage at the Institute from Transuranium Elements (ITU, Karlsruhe, Germany), during 2002 and 2003, she was engaged in the preparation and synthesis of new ceramic UO2 compounds. In 2004, she leaded her own project related to the synthesis of nanocrystals and their characterization in the framework of RyC program supported by the Education and Science Ministry of Spain. Later on, she became associate professor in 2010, till 2022; when she recently obtained the position of Professor in the same Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry at the URV.