1987 - 1990  

PhD in Particle Physics (awarded the Extraordinary Prize), University of Valencia, ES

1981 - 1986  

MSc in Fundamental Physics, University of Valencia, ES

2011 - now                   

Founder and Director of the “Institute for Molecular Imaging Instrumentation” (I3M), Institute from Spanish Scientific Research Council (CSIC) & Technical University of Valencia, ES

2010 - now  

Full Professor, Spanish Scientific Research Council (CSIC), ES

2021 - 2022   

Visiting scientist at CHUV (Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois), Lausanne, CH       

1995 – 2010

Scientist (tenured), Spanish Scientific Research Council (CSIC)

1997 - 1998   

Associate Scientist at CERN, development of new particle detector technologies with F. Sauli (group  founded  by  Georges  Charpak,  Nobel  Laureate  in  Physics  1992),  T.  Ypsilantis  and  J. Seguinot

1991 - 1996                                   

Research  Associate  Staff,  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology,  USA,  working  under  the direction of Prof. Jerome Friedman (Nobel Laureate in Physics 1990). Letter of Recommendation upon request. CDF (Collider Detector at Fermilab) experiment (Chicago) search for the top quark and new particles.

1988 - 1990

Associate  Scientist  CERN,  working  under  the  direction  of  Profs.  Ugo  Amaldi  and  Antonio Ferrer, on the DELPHI detector development and data analysis of the experiment

1987 - 1988 

Research Associate of the Laboratoire de Physic Nucleaire et des Hautes Energies, and of the Université d'Orsay, Paris, France

1987 - 1990 

Doctoral Fellowship, Spanish Ministry of Education

2019

Elected Member of the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC)

2018

Saint George Cross by the Cavaliers of the “Centenar de la Ploma”, Valencia

2017

ERC Advanced Grant Award

2016

“Civil Society” Prize from “Valencia Trade Athenaeum” in Scientific Research and Health Sciences

2014

Spanish National Research Prize in Engineering “Leonardo Torres Quevedo” delivered by the King of Spain, Felipe VI

2012

Medal from Garcia Cabrerizo Foundation for the promotion of inventions (Geneva, Switzerland)

2008

Prize of the Foundation King Jaime I in the "New Technologies" modality, delivered by the former King of Spain, Juan Carlos I

2007

Prize of the Spanish Society of Medical Physics, for the “Design & Development of a PET camera for performing physiological studies with small animals”

2002

2002     Technologist Award of the World Federation of Nuclear Medicine & Biology, received at the conference of the WFNMB (Santiago de Chile October 4, 2002)