Luis Fonseca

Dr. Luis Fonseca was born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1966. He received his Ph.D. degree in Physics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1992.  He has developed his professional career in the Barcelona site (IMB) of the National Center of Microelectronics (CNM). He worked as a process engineer at the CNM production facilities, until he joined the Microsystems department as a full senior researcher in 2001. His field of work was initially infrared gas sensing and, nowadays, microenergy harvesting and generation, particularly micro thermogenerators based in thin films or low dimensional materials (i.e. Si NWs).

He has been deputy director of the institute in the period June 2012-June 2016, and he is its current director since May 2021; he is member of the Steering Committee of the European Technology Platform on Smart Systems (EPoSS) since June 2008.