Beatriz Galiana Blanco
Professor Beatriz Galiana Blanco
Beatriz Galiana has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) since 2019. She currently leads the Transmission Electron Microscopy Laboratory (LABMET) and the research group “Advanced Materials for Solar Energy Applications,” which has been awarded the Full Open Science (FOS) label by the YUFE alliance. Her research focuses on optoelectronic devices and on the epitaxial growth and advanced characterization of semiconductor materials and luminescent nanostructures. She is co-author of the world record for GaInP/GaAs multi-junction solar cells and has contributed to the development of triple-junction solar cells with efficiencies of 43%.
She has been awarded three six-year research periods (sexenios), with a fourth currently under evaluation. She is the author of 61 scientific articles (80% published in first-quartile JCR journals) and has an h-index of 19, with results presented at numerous international conferences. She has supervised one PhD thesis and is currently supervising a second one in the field of structural and optical characterization of materials for low-dimensional solar cells.
Her scientific career has been developed across several national research institutions (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Instituto de Energía Solar at UPM, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales of CSIC, and IMDEA Materials) and international institutions (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Ohio State University, and CINVESTAV of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional in Mexico). She has participated in 15 national and 5 international research projects, serving as principal investigator in several of them in areas such as materials for solar energy, scientific infrastructures, and international cooperation. Her research has resulted in two patents related to the use of photonic crystals in solar cells and the nanostructuring of high-k oxides for high-speed electronics.