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.) © European Union, 2002-2012 | http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu Page 1 / 6 Curriculum Vitae Santiago Cuesta-López 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). © European Union, 2002-2012 | http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu Page 2 / 6 Curriculum Vitae Santiago Cuesta López 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