Departamento: Física

Instituto de investigación: Instituto Universitario de Materiales y Nanotecnología

Área: Física Aplicada

Grupo de investigación: Estructura electrónica y simulación de sólidos y materiales

Correo el.: amunoz@ull.edu.es

Área de investigación: Ciencias

Doutor pola Universidad Autónoma de Madrid coa tese Propiedades electrónicas de superficies e interfases efectos de la interacción electrón-electrón y electrón-fonón 1986. Dirixida por Dr/a. Fernando Flores Sintas.

Professor Alfonso Muñoz is a Spanish-born physicist. He carried out undergraduate studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, where he received his Ph.D. He is Full Professor of Condensed Matter and Computational Physics at the Universidad de La Laguna (Spain). He has been working for over 30 years in high-pressure research. His theoretical work in materials under extreme conditions is mainly focused in electronic, structural, dynamical, and mechanical properties from ab initio simulations. He belongs to the MALTA Consolider Team. He was a member of the EHPRG Committee during the period 2009-2012 and from 2017-present. In 2019 he was elected President of EHPRG, and as such he is an ex-officio Member of the AIRAPT Executive Committee (from 2019). In 2021 he was elected as a member of the C20 Commission of AIRAPT.