Pablo Merino. Postdoctoral researcher at Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM, CSIC) and Instituto de Física Fundamental (IFF, CSIC)
Research interests:
– Experimental Astrophysics. Surface catalyzed astrochemistry. PAHs, aromatic aliphatic compounds and carbon chemistry. Physics and chemistry of the interstellar and circumstellar dust.
– Light-Matter interaction at the nanoscale: Nanooptics. Excitons and Plasmons and their role in astronomical observations
Positions:
– Graduate in Theoretical Physics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, UAM (2009).
– PhD at Centro de Astrobiología associated to NASA astrobiology institute, INTA-CSIC, Madrid (2013).
– Post-doc at Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Nanoscale department (2014-2017).
– Post-doc at ICMM-CSIC, ERC Synergy “Nanocosmos” (2017-).
Selected publications Summary (link to google scholar):
– Graphene etching on SiC grains as a path to interstellar polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons formation, P Merino, M Švec, JI Martinez, P Jelinek, P Lacovig, M Dalmiglio, S Lizzit, P Soukiassian, J Cernicharo, JA Martin-Gago, Nature Communications, 5, 3954 (2014)
–Ortho and para hydrogen dimers on G/SiC (0001): combined STM and DFT study, P Merino, M Švec, JI Martínez, P Mutombo, C Gonzalez, JA Martín-Gago, PL de Andres, P Jelinek , Langmuir, 31, 233-239 (2014)
–Exciton dynamics of C60-based single-photon emitters explored by Hanbury Brown-Twiss scanning tunnelling microscopy, P Merino, C Große, A Rosławska, K Kuhnke, K Kern, Nature Communications, 6, 8461 (2015)
–Nanoscale Imaging of Charge Carrier and Exciton Trapping at Structural Defects in Organic Semiconductors, C Große, O Gunnarsson, P Merino, K Kuhnke, K Kern, Nano Letters, 16, 2084-2089 (2016)
–Atomic-Scale Imaging and Spectroscopy of Electroluminescence at Molecular Interfaces, Chemical Reviews, (2017)
Awards:
– Extraordinary Prize for the best PhD in Physics of the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid for the thesis “Structural Characterization of Epitaxial Graphene”
– Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation