Emilio Lora-Tamayo D'Ocón

Emilio Lora-Tamayo (Madrid, 1950) has worked in CSIC since 1975. He was president twice, between 2003 and 2004, after having served as vice-president for Science and Technology of the CSIC between 1996 and 2003, and between 2011 and 2017. In 2003, Emilio Lora-Tamayo initiated the change on the legal structure of CSIC, formerly a Public Research Organism, that ended on the creation of the Agencia Estatal de Investigación CSIC. On January 13th 2012 the Spanish Council of Ministers designated him as CSIC President.

After achieving his graduation in Physics in 1972, he was awarded the Diplôme d’Études Approfondies at the Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse, 1973). He obtained the PhD degree in Physics by the Universidad Complutense (Madrid, 1977). Since 1989, he was Professor of Electronics at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. He was researcher at the Ècole Nationale Supérieure d’Aéronautique et de l’Espace (Toulouse, France), at the Laboratoire d’Automatique et ses Aplications Spatiales (Toulouse, France) and at the Laboratoire d’Electronique et de l’Informatique (Grenoble, France). He was visiting professor at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department at UC Berkeley (United States).

He was Director of the Instituto de Microelectrónica de Barcelona-Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica (IMB-CNM) and of the associated “Integrated Micro and Nanofabrication Clean Room”. He had also coordinated the Barcelona Nanocluster at Bellaterra (BCN-b).

His expertise was Microelectronics and Nanotecnología covering aspects of Physics and technology of semiconductors and microchips, simulation and design of silicon microdevices and chips, Micro and Nanosystems (MEMS & NEMS), nanofabrication and CNTs. He was the author of more than 100 research articles in peer reviewed scientific journals, and more than 150 communications at scientific meetings. He was co-author of 7 patents and has written 12 books on his subject. He was the coordinator or participated in more than 50 national or international research projects. He was the president of the scientific committee to asses and repair the damages caused by the “Prestige” oil spill (2002-2003).

He was full member of the Real Academia de Ciencias y Artes de Barcelona and corresponding member of the Real Academia de Medicina y Cirugía de Cádiz and of the Real Academia de San Dionisio de Artes y Ciencias de Jerez de la Frontera. He was awarded with the Encomienda de número de la Orden del Mérito Civil and several CSIC awards.