Prof. Jaume Veciana (male) is Full Professor at the Institut de Ciencia de Materials de Barcelona ICMAB-CSIC and Director of NANOMOL Department (http://www.icmab.es/nanomol/), Group Leader of Centro de Investigación en Red en Biomateriales, Bioingeniería y Nanomedicina, CIBER-BBN, and Scientific Director of the Large Scientific and Technical Facility ICTS NANBIOSIS (http://www.nanbiosis.es). After his PhD, he did a postdoc at The Johns Hopkins University, MD (USA) working on molecular electronics and then moved to ICMAB-CSIC. He is one of the founder and scientific advisors of the spin-off NANOMOL Technologies, SA (http://nanomol-tech.com/). His current research interests focus on Molecular Functional Materials, Molecular Electronics, Molecular Nanoscience, and Nanomedicine. Prof. Veciana co-authored more than 500 journal articles and book chapters, 16 international patents, and edited two books receiving in 2001 the Solvay Award and in 2004 the Real Sociedad de Quimica Española Award for his research in chemistry. In 2005 he received the DuPont Award for his contributions in Molecular Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.
