Miquel Salmeron
- Scientific Director, Imaging and Manipulation of Nanostructures
- Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Materials Sciences Division
- Adjunct Professor, UC Berkeley Materials Science and Engineering Dept.
Miquel Salmeron’s research interests include:
- The atomic structure of surfaces: imaging and manipulation of individual atoms and molecules. Adsorption, diffusion and reactions of molecules on single crystal metal and oxide surfaces
- Mechanical properties of materials at the atomic level: how atoms and molecules exchange energy during frictional sliding
- The structure of liquid films and droplets at the molecular level: wetting phenomena, dissolution
- Molecular electronics: molecules to conduct electricity, rectification and semiconducting properties. Relation between molecular structure and electronic properties
- Catalysis and environmental science using Scanning Tunneling and Force Microscopies, Photoelectron Spectroscopy under ambient conditions at the Berkeley Synchrotron
Dr. Salmeron is a member of the Steering Committee of the National Center of Electron Microscopy and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Advanced Light Source. He sits on the Editorial Board of Surface Science and on the Advisory Board of the “Institut atala de Nanotecnologia” in Barcelona, Spain.
His honors include:
- 2004 Klaus Halbach Award for Development of Innovative Instrumentation
- 2003 Fellow of the American Vacuum Society2001 Outstanding Performance Award, LBNL
- 1997 Iberdrola Foundation Professor at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
- 1996 Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
- 1996 Sustained Outstanding Research Award, Materials Chemistry, U.S. Department of Energy
- 1995 Outstanding Scientific Accomplishment Award, Materials Chemistry, U.S. Dept. of Energy
