Héctor Vázquez

Senior scientist. I did my PhD on energy level alignment at metal/organic and organic/organic interfaces at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid with Fernando Flores. I then moved to the field of single molecule transport theory, in postdoctoral stays with Antti-Pekka Jauho and Mads Brandbyge at DTU-Nanotech, and Latha Venkataraman and Mark Hybertsen at Columbia University and Brookhaven National Lab. On my way back to Europe, I worked on exciton dissociation and organic photovoltaics as a postdoc with Alessandro Troisi at the University of Warwick. I arrived to Prague on a tenure-track J.E. Purkyně fellowship and started the Molecular Transport Group. I am now senior scientist at the Institute.

Enrique Montes

Postdoc. I obtained my MSc in Physics from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil. Then I did my PhD in Material Sciences and Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, under the supervision of Udo Schwingenschlögl. I studied electron transport phenomena in nanowires, nanotubes, and other low-dimensional systems, in order to evaluate their performance as field effect transistors, magnetic tunneling junctions or gas sensors. I used Density functional theory and Non-Equilibrium Green’s Functions methods. In Prague I am working on theoretical methods to investigate molecular transport.

Martin Hladík

PhD student. I obtained my MSc in Physical Chemistry at the Charles University in Prague. During this period I worked as a master student at the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry AS ČR, in the field of optical phenomena under the supervision of Peter Černoch. I am currently working as a doctoral student at the Institute of Physics, combining experiments and simulations. I am working on nanostructures for solar cells under the supervision of Antonín Fejfar and Martin Ledinský, and Héctor for the simulations.

Dani Rodríguez-Castellanos

PhD student. I did my MSc at the Univ. of Havana, Cuba, in a multidisciplinary research group of complex systems applied to cancer and thermodynamics far from equilibrium. My thesis was on developing a mathematical model to simulate cancer chronotherapy (chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and immunotherapy) in the metastasis stage. In Prague, I am enrolled in a PhD. program in Quantum Technologies at the Czech Technical University. In Héctor’s group, I am working on theoretical methods to obtain the structure and conductance of molecular junctions.

Former members.

Molecular Transport Group