Professor Antoni Planes has been honoured with the Fellow of the American Physical Society
Antoni Planes, professor in the Department of Structure and Constituents of Matter of the Faculty of Physics, has been elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). The proposal was made by the Division of Material Physics of the APS.
Antoni Planes, professor in the Department of Structure and Constituents of Matter of the Faculty of Physics, has been elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). The proposal was made by the Division of Material Physics of the APS.
The Fellowship committee emphasized that the honour was conferred on Professor Planes "for his outstanding and original contributions to the study of fundamental aspects of phase transition dynamics in functional materials".
The American Physical Society was founded in 1899 at at Columbia University (USA) with the aim of advancing and diffusing the knowledge of physics. Nowadays, it represents over 51,000 members.The APS Fellowship Program is a distinct honor signifying recognition to those members who have made advances in knowledge through original research and publication or made significant and innovative contributions in the application of physics to science and technology. There is an absolute cap on the number of Fellows that can be elected annually, equal to 0.5% of the Society membership. So far, only two professors of the Facuty of Physics of the University of Barcelona have received this honour: Javier Tejada (2000) and Xavier Batlle (2012).
Antoni Planes has been professor in the Department of Structure and Constituents of Matter of the University of Barcelona since 1993. He worked at the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon (France) and at Osaka University (Japan). He was visiting researcher at the Bariloche Atomic Centre (Argentina) and Los Alamos National Lab (USA). He was director and secretary of the Department of Structure and Constituents of Matter and he is member of the Catalan Physics Society and the Royal Academy of Science and Arts of Barcelona. His research activity is focused on the study of non-equilibrium phase transitions in solids and the potential applications of these states. Currently, he is working on shape memory and magnetocaloric materials. Planes has published more than 250 articles and received more than 7,300 quotations.