Source:Physical Materials Centre
CSIC inaugurates new Physical Materials Centre in San Sebastian
The new Physical Materials Centre (Centro de Física de Materiales) in San Sebastian was inaugurated on December 20, 2010. The Centre is run in combination with the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC - Higher Scientific Research Council) and the University of the Basque Country. This new installation is strategically located; surrounded by various research centres and institutes: opposite the Chemistry Faculty, behind the Joxe Mari Korta R+D+i Centre and in front of the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC).
The building, designed by architect Francisco Xavier Aguilar Borras, has a total surface area of 4,964.81 m2 and 3,666.65 m2 useful surface area, distributed in four floors: semi-basement, ground floor, first floor and second floor. Total investment represents seven million Euros from the CSIC, with the land provided by the UPV/EHU (University of the Basque Country).
The Physical Materials Centre (CFM) is part of the CSIC Materials Sciences Institutes Network. It was created in 1999 at the same time as the CSIC-UPV/EHU Biophysics Department at the Bizkaia Campus, another mixed centre hosted by the UPV/EHU. The centre only now occupies its own building.
The Physical Materials Centre (CFM) management team is formed by Juan Colmenero de Léon, Physics of Compressed Matter Professor at the UPV/EHU and Centre Director and Ricardo Díez Muiño, CSIC Scientist and Vice-Director.
The new centre's main research activity is the theoretical and experimental study of material properties at microscopic and mesoscopic level. Nanostructured systems, polymeric materials or photonic materials are just some examples of the subjects to be studied at this centre.