Dr. Jorge M. Garcia received his PhD in Fundamental Physics in 1995 from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). He worked as a PostDoc at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. Since year 2000 he is a tenured scientist at the Instituto de Microelectronica de Madrid, CSIC. His work focuses on the fabrication of self assembled nanostructures and graphene and its electronic and optical properties. He has been working developing the growth of graphene by Molecular Beam Epitaxy in a sabbatical stay from 2007-2008 at  Bell Labs (NJ, USA) and at Columbia University (NY, USA) from 2009-2012.

Dr. Jorge is presently the Director of the Instituto de Microelectronica de Madrid, CSIC (http://www.imm.cnm.csic.es). He's author and co-author of 3 patents and 153 refereed publications with a total of about 5450 citations. H factor 37.