Atilà Herms, new dean of the Faculty of Physics
In the meeting of the Board of the Faculty of Physics which happened on 19th December the new dean of the faculty was elected. The professor from the Department of Electronics Dr Atilà Herms, the former vice-dean, was appointed as dean.
In the meeting of the Board of the Faculty of Physics which happened on 19th December the new dean of the faculty was elected. The professor from the Department of Electronics Dr Atilà Herms, the former vice-dean, was appointed as dean.
The group of people who work with Dr Herms is composed by the lecturer of the Department of Applied Physics and Optics Esther Pascual, as vice-dean; the lecturers Eugeni Graugés, from the Department of Structure and Constituents of Matter, and Josep M. Solanes, from the Department of Astronomy and Meteorology, as vice-deans; and Josep Perelló, lecturer from the Department of Fundamental Physics, as secretary of the Faculty, which is affiliated with the campus of international excellence BKC.
Atilà Herms (Manresa, 1956) heads the Consolidated Research Group on Instrumentation Systems and Communications (SIC) that focuses its research activity on designing electronic systems for the measure, instrumentation and transmission of information. The research group has extended its activity lines within the fields of ICT and micro and nanotechnology. Herms has led and participated in several national and European research projects, and supervised a great number of research works and theses. He has made about 70 publications in journals and books, participated in 133 congresses and obtained two patents, together with other researchers.
The new dean of the Faculty of Physicis has been professor at the Department of Electronics since 1980, and vice-dean of the Faculty since 2010. He also was director of studies of Electronic Engineering from 2001 to 2009, and previously he was the secretary of the Faculty.
Among his objectives as dean of the Faculty, Herms remarks “the creation of the conditions needed to develop the studies offered by the Faculty in the best way, in order to reach excellence standards”. In this sense, he will work to improve the situation of research and development activities performed at the Faculty.