Arbe Mendez, Arantxa

Biography

Research Professor (Profesor de Investigación) at the CFM (CSIC-UPV/EHU), in San Sebastián (Spain) (04/2009 -).   Scientific Researcher (Investigador Científico) at the CFM (CSIC-UPV/EHU), in San Sebastián (Spain) (06/2007 - 03/2009).   Tenured Scientist (Científico Titular) at the Materials Physics Center (Centro de Física de Materiales) (CFM) (CSIC-UPV/EHU), in San Sebastián (Spain) (07/2001 - 05/2007).   Associated research position in the Spanish National Reasearch Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC) at the Materials Physics Unit (Unidad de Física de Materiales), Joint Center CSIC-UPV/EHU, in San Sebastián (Spain) (01/1998 - 07/2001).   Postdoctoral position at the Materials Physics Department  (UPV/EHU) (07/1996 - 12/1997).   Postdoctoral position at the Institut für Festkörperforschung (IFF), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH (FZJ), Germany in the group of Prof. Dieter Richter (09/1994 - 04/1996).   PhD: Physics, UPV/EHU (Spain). Supervisor: Prof. Juan Colmenero (09/1994).   BS: Solid State Physics, University of the Basque Country  (UPV/EHU) (Spain) (06/1990).

Research Interest

 Young Scientist Award of the European Neutron Scattering Association (1996).   Participation as “Young Scientific Memberâ€Â (2001-2002) in the Scientific Advisory Committee, SAC of the European Spallation Source (ESS) project.   Member of the Scientific Committee  of the Neutron Source at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI, Villigen, Switzerland), as soft matter expert (2003-2006).   Member of Subcommittee 6 of the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL, Grenoble, France) (2004-2007).   Chairperson of the Proposal Selection at the Jülich Centre for Neutron Scattering JCNS (Jülich, Germany) (2006-).   Member of the Proposal Evaluation Panel FAP5 of ISIS, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxford) (2009-).  Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee, SAC, of the European Spallation Source (ESS) (2010-).