Angel Rubio, Academician of the German Academy of Natural Sciences Leopoldina

Angel Rubio, Professor of Materials Physics at the University of the Basque Country, Head of the Bio-Nanoscale Spectroscopy Research Group and Director of the Department of Theory at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg, has been appointed Academician of the German Academy of Natural Sciences Leopoldina (Deutsche Akademie of Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie of Wissenschaften) in the Department of Physics.

German Academy of Natural Sciences Leopoldina It was founded in 1652 and is considered the oldest scientific society in the world. Since its founding, about 7,500 academics have joined the entity. Among them are more than 170 Nobel laureates. Marie Curie. Albert Einstein and Alexander von Humboldt were members of the Academy. About three-quarters of its members come from their countries of origin (Germany, Austria and Switzerland), and a quarter from other countries of the world. Since 1878 it has been headquartered in the Saxon city of Halle. Since 2008, he has been a member of the German National Academy of Sciences.

The new academic stresses that “to join the Leopoldina Academy is a great privilege and honor to see my name associated with the numerous list of historical members of this Academy who have marked and defined the great scientific developments in all fields of knowledge and in particular in quantum physics, materials science and nanoscience.”

Angel Rubio is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a foreign member of the prestigious American Academy of Sciences (NAS), a research member of the American Physical Society (APS), the European Physical Society (EPS) and a member of the European Academy of Sciences (EA) In recognition of his outstanding contribution to science. In 2022 he was elected to the Berlin-Brandenburgchen Academy. Likewise, in addition to being selected as a “Research of Excellence”, he has been the recipient of numerous scientific awards, including the 2018 Max Born Prize and Medal, the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Prize awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the King Jaime Prize. 1. In the field of basic sciences. He has twice been awarded one of the most prestigious ERC Advanced Scholarships, awarded by the European Research Council. These prestigious European Research Council Scholarships are only awarded to leading scientists in Europe and for cutting-edge projects. Likewise, the Spanish Royal Society of Physics awarded him its Foundation Medal in 2016. This was the second time that this institution had recognized Professor Rubio’s work. In 1991 he was awarded the Detective Fiction Award.