Santiago Cuesta López INTERNATIONAL CENTER for RESEARCH in CRITICAL RAW MATERIALS

Curriculum Vitae Santiago Cuesta López

PERSONAL INFORMATION Santiago Cuesta López

INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN CRITICAL RAW MATERIALS FOR ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES Pza. Misael Bañuelos s/n, I+D+I Building, 2nd floor, 09001 Burgos (Spain) +34 661 9714 185 [email protected] / [email protected]

Sex Male | Date of birth 04/08/1976 | Nationality Spanish

UNIVERSITY OFFICIAL STUDIES

2000 BSC in Nuclear Physics and Condensed Matter Physics Bachelor

University of Zaragoza (Spain)

2002 MSC in Theoretical Physics, Nuclear, Atomic and Molecular Physics Master University of Zaragoza

Master Thesis: “Radio-isotope identification using Artificial Neural Networks” (Rated as Excellent)

2002 MSc/DEA in Condensed Matter Physics and Solid State Physics Master

University of Zaragoza (Spain)

Master Thesis: “Simulation of Biological Macromolecules”. (Rated as Excellent)

2006 PhD degree “European Mention” in Molecular Physics PhD degree University of Zaragoza (Spain) & Laboratoire de Physique, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France)

Rated as Excellent cum Laude and finalist of PhD award.

2009 MSc/DEA R&D&I Nuclear Engineering, Science and Technology Master Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain)

Master Thesis: “Engineering design of accelerator driven transmutation systems” (Rated as excellent)

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

• Distinguished Researcher by MINECO-University of Burgos, September 2014.

• Intensive and Excellence Research Accreditation I3. Awarded by the MINECO (Spanish Ministry lf Economy) and ANEP (Research and Innovation Directorate). November 2013. Area of Materials and Mechanical Engineering.

• Excellence research award “Ramon y Cajal”. EU-level competition to bring back to Spain qualified researchers as group leaders. Area of Engineering. Awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology. 2009.

• Innovation Prize ‘Materials for the future’ – Innovation Movie Award. NANOTECHNOLOGY AND NEW MATERIALS EXCELLENCE SQUARE Where Nanotech Meets Industry. MECSPE fair playground, March 2017 Parma (Italy) for the FET-OPEN project ICARUS

• Young scientist prize ICFRM/IAEA “Advanced materials development for Nuclear Fusion technology”. Sapporo (Japan) 2009.

• 1st Postdoctoral Prize Marcel Mérieux- Association des Amis de l´Université de Lyon, Region Rhône-Alpes (France).

• 1st National Prize of the Spanish Nuclear Society (S.N.E)- Edition 2003. “Artificial Intelligence and ANNs for Nuclear Engineering.

• CAI-EUROPE XXI programme award- March 2003 call & February 2005 call. Aragon Government of Science and Education committee (CONSI+D). Awarded twice to make medium-term research in Multidisciplinary Physics in the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France).

• SOCRATES “Matériaux” program- July 1999. Selected for an intensive training programme: “Fourth Intensive Programme Advanced Materials. CSIC”, Lab. Of Crystallography (CNRS-Grenoble, France), Institute Laue-Langevin (I.L.L.) and European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (E.S.R.F.)

POSITIONS HELD

September • General Manager of the International Research Centre in Critical Raw Materials for Advanced 2014-Present Industrial Technologies (ICCRAM, Castilla y León, Spain). Responsible of a human team of about 80 (30 direct + 50 within divisions people. • EU Commission LEAR for ICCRAM and University of Burgos. • Coordinator of the industrial innovation dynamics and catalysis plan. International industrial platform of the City Council of Burgos, Castilla y León, Spain. • Coordinator of the Materials by Design division at ICCRAM-University of Burgos, Castilla y Léon, Spain (coordinating a human team of 12 people). • Coordinator of the Nanosafety unit at ICCRAM-University of Burgos, Castilla y León, Spain (coordinating a human team of 8 people). • Director of the Advanced Materials and Applied Nanotechnology Unit. Awarded as an excellence consolidated unit by the Government of Castilla y León (2015)- UC 154. Science and Technology Park in the University of Burgos, Castilla y Léon, Spain.

June 2011- • Director of the Advanced Materials and Applied Nanotechnology unit. Science and Technology Park September 2014 in the University of Burgos, Castilla y León, Spain. • EU-FP7 Director and responsible of research projects (private/public funds) in Nuclear Technology and Materials Science, at national and internationals levels (EU-FP7/European Commission). • Invited Researcher/Professor at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France). 2011-2012. • Invited Professor at University of Cagliari (Italy). 2013.

December 2009- • Group leader/Coordinator: Advanced Materials, Nuclear Fusion unit. Polytechnic University of Madrid June 2011 (Spain). • Director and responsible of research projects (private/public funds) in Materials Science at national and international levels (EU-FP7/European Commission). • EU Delegate (Russia/Japan/EU cooperation)-Materials for targets in Laser Nuclear Fusion.

October 2008- December 2009 • Group leader: Advanced Materials and Nuclear Fusion unit. • HiPER EU-ESFRI-FP7 Delegate. Laser Fusion. Excellence Research Centre from Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain). Invited researcher at Paul Scheerer Institute (PSI, Switzerland), Rutherford Appleton Lab. Oxford (UK).

• CNRS-UMR 5672 and Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France). Laboratoire Transdisciplinaire February 2006- Joliot-Curie. October 2008 • Coordinator of multidisciplinary projects. Role as interface Biologie-Chemie-Physique-Matériaux. • Postdoctoral Researcher. Scientific staff. Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France). Laboratoire de Physique and Laboratoire Transdisciplinaire Joliot-Curie.

January 2003- • National Award FPU-PhD fellowship (AP-2002-3492). University of Zaragoza (Spain). Dept. February 2006 Condensed Matter Physics

July 2000- • Scientist/Engineer permanent staff I+D division in LAESA (European Laboratory for the Energy January 2003 Amplifier S.A.) Private consortium (founded by C.Rubbia, Novel Laurate). • In 2002/2003 Head of the area/dept of neutron simulation and radiation transport and damage in materials. • Responsible of the preliminary plan for the implementation of a neutron facility with industrial applications for the Aragon Government (2001/2002).

OTHER RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND HIGH-LEVEL POSITIONS

• Government of Castilla y León –Spain. From 2013-present. External expert in the development of the EU-Regional Smart Specialization strategy (RIS3). Areas of Key Enabling Technologies (KETSs), Biotechnology and Critical Raw Materials.

• Government of Castilla y León-Spain. From October 2015-present. Part of the high-level group in Circular Economy. Designing the roadmap for circular economy in the Region.

• Government of Castilla y Leon. Agency of Development and Innovation (ADE) & Fundación Patrimonio Natural-Spain. From October 2014-present. Member/expert of the working groups in Circular Economy, EU Social Challenge 5, Energy and Nanotechnology (NMBP).

• Coordinator and expert for City Council of Burgos, in the development of an industrial innovation catalysis platform and industrial dynamics and investment plan for the city. From November 2015-present.

• Expert for the political party “Grupo Ciudadanos” Castilla y León, in the development of a Circular Economy industrial approach, and a green Technology industrial cluster for the city Council of Burgos. From February 2016-present.

• Executive member of the management committee of EU platform NANOFUTURES. From January 2015-present.

• Chairman of the Working Group in Critical Raw Materials in Nanotechnology based industrial value chains, within EU- NANOFUTURES. From January 2015

• European Innovation Partnership on Raw Materials' Operational Group’. Member of Committe. EU-Commission. From March 2017.

• Member of Strategic Expert Group (SEG) for M-ERANET (Materials) EU-Commission. From October 2015

• Member of the international committee for standards ISO/AENOR CTN 73. From January 2014-present.

• Management Committee of EU COST CRM_EXTREME OC-2015-1-19345. Executive committee representative for Spain. Responsible of innovation and industrial dissemination. From April 2016

• Expert in the design and development of industrial nanotechnological value chains- Project UE Value4Nano. NANOFUTURES and EU-Commission. From February 2014-present.

• Expert for Project EU CRM_INNONET. EU-Commission. From February 2014-present

• Promoter of more than 30 MoU private contracts with industries and clusters.

• Technical Advisor for the industrial cluster CBECYL (Cluster of Capital Goods Castilla y León). Role of EU programs facilitator for the cluster

• Expert for JUST (Jordan) and EU-JEWEL project, for setting up and discussing the integration of Jordan into H2020 and discuss its alignment with H2020 programs.

• Argentinian Government advisor. October 2015. SMEs promotion in Nanotechnology, NANOMERCASUR, alignment into EU- H2020

• Reviewer/Expert for the EU Commission. November 2016. EUROATOM program.

• National Evaluation and Foresight Agency (ANEP) –Spain. May 2014: Member of the National Committee for the selection of National level human resources in Science and Technology (Ramón y Cajal awards and postdoctoral contracts Juan de la Cierva). Spain. Area of Mechanical Engineering. Materials Science

• National Evaluation and Foresight Agency (ANEP)- Spain. From 2008-present: Evaluation of projects and expert in the panels of Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Nuclear Technology and Molecular Physics.

• Agence Nationale de la Recherche Française (ANR) –France. From 2011-present. Evaluation of projects and expert in the panel of Multidisciplinary Physics, Biophysics.

• Agencia Andaluza del Conocimiento (AAC). International and EU projects division- Spain. From 2013-present. Evaluation of projects and expert in the panel of Nanotechnology.

• Participating as expert in Materials Science, Nanotechnology and Industrial Innovation in EU and National working groups within: SERCOBE, MANUKET, EU-MANUFUTURES, EU-IRELAC, INNANO- ADE. From 2012-present.

• External scientific expert in Materials Science &Nuclear Engineering in the international consortium IPM-International Project Management S.L. From 2011-2013.

• Liaison Officer of NEA (Nuclear Energy Agency). From 2011-present.

• Industrial Representative and part of the technical management board at CEIDEN (Spanish National Nuclear Fission R&D Technological Platform). From 2011-present.

• Official College of Physics (COFIS). Scientific Advisor & management board in the local committee of Aragón. Areas of Nuclear Physics & Materials Sciences. From 2006-present.

• National Court expert in the areas of Radioprotection and Materials Science.

• American Physical Society (APS) referee. Recognised expert in biophysics and materials science for Physical Review Letters. Referee in 25 other SCI/JCR international journals in the fields of Molecular Modelling, Biophysics, Advanced Materials, Nuclear Science and Nanotechnology.

• Member of R.E.S (Spanish Network of Supercomputation). Leader in the Life-Sciences & Materials Science areas.

• Active member of the Royal Spanish Physics Society (RSEF), Spanish Society of Molecular and Cellular Biology (SEBBM), Spanish Society for Neutron Techniques (SETN) and Spanish Nuclear Society (SNE).

• Involved in about 7 international excellence science and docent programs (ERASMUS,ERASMUS+, TEMPUS, Marie Curie…) and 3 international PhD schools. External academic expert, advisor or referee for different universities: NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Universidad de Chile, Universidad of Cagliari, University of Sassari, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, among others.

SCIENTIFIC EXPERTISES & RESEARCH FIELDS

• S. Cuesta is author and co-author f more than 120 works involving SCI publications, knowledge transfer (12 IP registries), industrial value chain analysis, and innovation into industry reports in the fields of Molecular Physics, Bio/Nanotechnology, Nuclear Science and Materials Science.

• He has private agreements or contracts for research with more than 15 private industries and companies (highlighting ENSA, ENDESA, IBERDROLA, IPM, SGS, ECOTEST, SINERCO, SERCOBE, SEA Ingenieria, NANOFABER…). He has carried out 2 infrastructure-engineering projects for the Aragon Government (highlighting the Design of A Laboratory for proton accelerators and neutron sources applied to materials science). In the last 5 years, his scientific work has been presented in more than 60 congresses (30 of them international).

• S.Cuesta has carried out research postdoctoral stays in prestigious international Centres like Paul Scerrer Institute (PSI, Switzerland), Rutherford Appleton Lab & University of Oxford (UK), ISIS facility (UK), Institute Laue Langevin (Grenoble-France), ESRF (Grenoble-France) and the French elite university ENS-Lyon (France).

DIRECTION OF RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Up to now, partner, co-responsible or director for more than 40 funded projects at EU-wide (FP5/6/7, H2020), National level (MINECO, MICINN- Spain ANR- France) or under request of private industry; Fields of Materials Science, Nuclear Technology, Engineering and Multidisciplinary Physics.

• S. Cuesta has directed more than 15 research projects in international singular facilities with an equivalence in services > 700.000 euros.

• From 2012-2017 he has conducted private projects and research contracts with industry for an estimated total value of about 500.000 euros.

• In the biennium 2015-2016 he has attracted more than 2.750.000 euros with his research lines in 11 EU H2020 projects (3 EU projects as EU coordinator, including a FET-OPEN project).

Projects of relevance (see Annex for more details)

• Coordinator of H2020-EU-MSC-RISE-2015 NANOGENTOOLS: “Developing and implementation of new nanosafety assessment tools”.

• Coordinator of H2020-FETOPEN-2014-2015-RIA-ICARUS. Innovative Coarsening-resistant Alloys with enhanced Radiation tolerance and Ultra-fine-grained Structure for aerospace application.

• Principal researcher at 5 excellent science projects in the biennium 2015-2016. (Including Marie Sklodowska CurieActions ITN, IEF, RISE).

• Coordinator of the Transnational Network MULTINANOMAT. (Founded 2011). MAT2011-15800-E: Multiscale modelling and experimental validation of new advanced materials on nanotechnological basis. Funded by MINECO (Spain). www.multinanomat.eu. Coordinator of the International Network INCRAM (Founded 2015) MAT2014-59069 REDT: International Network in Critical Raw Materials Substitution.

• EIP (European Innovation Partnership) Raw Materials: EU Coordinator of the Commitment RAWNANOVALUE: Critical Raw Materials: Their role in nanotechnology-based value chains. Nanotechnology as a vehicle of substitution; H2020 innovation responsible, and leader of the WP1 , in the EIP-Raw Materials Action Group commitment 1.7 RESET (new materials development for substitution of critical materials in electronic and photoelectronic devices), and WP1 leader within the Action Group commitment 1.8 SUBST-EXTREME (development of materials based alternative solutions to critical raw materials used in extreme conditions). Partner of Consortium/Commitment PROMETIA.

th • Across different positions, participant or responsible in the following European projects: European Union 5 Framework Program of EURATOM “Prototype Design Study- Experimental Accelerator Driven System (PDS-XADS)”, reference FP5-EAECTP C, FIKW-CT-2001-00179, and European Union 6th Framework program of EURATOM “Transmutation of Adiabatic Resonance Crossing, TARC”.

• Fp7-infraestructures-2007.1 VII Framework programme UE, capabilities work programme, “HiPER: European High Power Laser Energy Research Facility (Preparatory Phase Study)”. IP in EU-FP7-NMP SMALL-2010- RADFINTERFACES “Interface Design Of Crystalline Multilayered Materials With Improved Radiation Damage Resistance based On Multiscale Modelling Concepts”.

• ITER program. Private agreement and subcontracting with Iberdrola Ingenieria (IBERINCO) and SEA for Radioprotection designs and calculations in Fusion For Energy (F4E), tenders F4E-OMF-0466 & TBM Radioprotection.

Languages

• ENGLISH: correct-fluent

• FRENCH: correct-medium.

• SPANISH: mother tongue.

ANNEX

RECENT RELEVANT EUROPEAN RESEARCH PROJECTS AND INTERNATIONAL CONTRACTS (last 3 years)

1. H2020-MSCA-RISE-2016-CO2MPRISE-734873. CO2 absorbing Materials project- RISE. IP: S.Cuesta-López (UBU-ICCRAM). 2016-2020.

2. H2020-MSCA-RISE-2016-DRYNET-734434. Setting an interdisciplinary/sectorial/international research network to explore dry storage as an alternative strategy for cells/germplasm biobanking. IP: S.Cuesta-López (UBU-ICCRRAM). 2016-2020.

3. H2020-SC5-2016-OneStageB-SCRREEN-GA-730227. Solutions for Critical Raw Materials – a European Expert Network. IP: S.Cuesta-López (UBU-ICCRAM). 2016-2020.

4. H2020-NMBP-17-2016-IA-GA-721045: NMPBP-17-2016 Type of Action: IA: Advanced materials solutions for next generation high efficiency concentrated solar power (CSP) tower systems. IP: S.Cuesta-López (UBU). 2016-2020. (170.000 eur UBU- ICCRAM).

5. H2020-MSCA-ITN-2016-SOLUTION-GA-721642: Solid lubrication for emerging engineering applications. IP: S.Cuesta-López (UBU). 2016-2020 (490.000 euros UBU-ICCRAM).

6. H2020-FETOPEN-2014-2015-RIA-ICARUS. Innovative Coarsening-resistant Alloys with enhanced Radiation tolerance and Ultra-fine-grained Structure for aerospace application. EU Coordinator: S.Cuesta-López (454.750 eur. UBU-ICCRAM).

7. H2020-NMP-2015-two-stage-NOVAMAG-GA-686056: NOVel critical materials free, high Anisotropy phases for permanent MAGnets, by design. IP: S.Cuesta-López (499.000 eur UBU-ICCRAM).

8. H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015-NANOGENTOOLS-GA-691065: Developing and implementations of a new generation of nanosafety assessment tools. EU Coordinator: S.Cuesta-López (136.000 eur. UBU-ICCRAM).

9. H2020-WASTE-2015; WASTE-4d-2015-csa-MSP-REFRAM-GA-688993: Multi-Stakeholder Platform for a Secure Supply of Refractory Metals in Europe. IP: S.Cuesta-López (UBU-ICCRAM).

10. H2020-TWINN-2015-SUPERMAT-GA-692216: The VIRTUAL Centre for Integration of INNOVATIVE synthesis and Processing METHODS FOR SUSTAINABLE advanced Materials operating under extreme Conditions. IP: S.Cuesta-López (156.000 eur UBU-ICCRAM).

11. H2020-COST-Solutions for Ciritical Raw Materials Under Extreme Conditions COST ACTION OC-2015-1-19345. S.Cuesta- López is member of the Management Committee, Vice-Chairman and IP for UBU-ICCRAM.

12. MSCA-IF-EF-ST-Nano-PieZoelecTrics-GA-707954. Novel Nanoporous PZT Materials for Efficient ultrasonic Biomedical Sensor. EU Coordinator: S.Cuesta-López (170.000 eur UBU-ICCRAM).

13. EU-FP7-RADINTERFACES-GA-263273: Multiscale Simulation and experimental validation of Self-healing Nanostructured Materials. FP7-NMP-2010-SMALL-4. IP: S.Cuesta-López (UBU). 2011-2014 (273.000 eur UBU-ICCRAM).

14. EU-EIP-Raw Mate3rials RAW-NANOVALUE (Critical Raw Materials: Their role in nanotechnology-based value chains. Nanotechnology as a vehicle of subsititution). (total partners budget contribution 10M€). EU coordinator S.Cuesta-López. 2016- 2020. EU-EIP-Raw Materials. SUBS_EXTREME (1.8 Commitment) Substitution of Critical Raw Materials in advanced materials for extreme conditions. (total partners budget contribution 10M€). IP: S.Cuesta-López (UBU). 2014-2020. EU-EIP-Raw Materials. RESET (1.7 Commitment) Subsitittion of Critical Raw Materials in lightning and photoelectronic devices (total partners budget contribution 24M€). IP: S.Cuesta-López (UBU). 2014-2020.

15. EU-KIC-Raw Materials. Task Partner. EI. (total partners budget contribution 150M€). IP: S.Cuesta-López (UBU). Budget allocated by the EIT still not decided (awarded 9/12/14). 2014-2020.

16. EU-COST-ACTION.MP1303.Nnofriction. I.P: S.Cuesta-López (UBU). 2013.2016

17. The International ITER project for Nuclear Fusion. Process of vitrifying boron carbide powder for port shielding ITER- IO/16/RFQ/124577JTR-2016. EU-EUROATOM-ITER project. Subcontracted by Iberdrola Ingenieria (IBERINCO) and SEA for Radioprotection designs and calculations in EU Fussion for Energy (F4E), tenders F4E-OMF-0466 & TBM Radioprotection. IP: S.Cuesta-López (UBU). 2013-2014.