DIFFRACTION GROUP

Alejandro Fernández-Martínez				Physicist
				PhD Student
				e-mail:	fernande@ill.fr
				Room:	203-ILL17
				Phone:	+33 (0)4.76.20.75.71
				FAX:	+33 (0)4.76.20.76.48
				Supervisor:	Gabriel Cuello

Research interests

• Adsorption of contaminants on clays.
• Structure of disordered systems (metal and chalcogenide glasses).
• Computer simulations (classical MD, ab initio DFT, RMC).

Recent publications

• Structure of chalcogenide glasses by neutron diffraction.
  G. J. Cuello, A. A. Piarrísteguy, A. Fernández-Martínez, M. Fontana and A. Pradel
  J. Non-Crys. Sol. (accepted 2006).
• Kinetics of crystallization of FeB-based amorphous alloys studied by neutron thermodiffractometry.
  A. Fernández-Martínez, P. Gorría, G. J. Cuello, J. D. Santos and M. J. Pérez
  J. Non-Crys. Sol. (accepted 2006).
• Arsenic uptake by gypsum and calcite: modeling and probing by neutron and x-ray scattering.
  A. Fernández-Martínez, G. Román-Ross, G. J. Cuello, X. Turrillas, L. Charlet, M. R. Johnson and F. Bardelli
  Phys. B: Cond. Mat. (accepted 2006).
• Arsenite sorption and co-precipitation by calcite
  G. Roman-Ross, G. J. Cuello, X. Turrillas, A. Fernández-Martínez and L. Charlet
  Chem. Geol. 233, 328 (2006).
• Structural evolution and magnetic properties in Fe70Cr10B20 ribbons.
  J. D. Santos, J. Olivera, P. Gorría, M. J. Pérez, M. L. Sanchez, B. Hernando, V. M. Prida, A. Fernández-Martínez and G. J. Cuello
  J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 294, e155-e158 (2005).

Short CV

• Since Oct. 2006: Ph.D. thesis (LGIT - Universite Joseph Fourier and ILL)
• 2004 - 2006: Diploma thesis and postgraduate fellowship at the ILL (DEA at Universidad de Oviedo, Spain)
• Summer 2003: Training at the Surface/Interface Spectroscopy beamline (SLS - Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland)
• 1999 - 2004: M.Sc. in Physics (Universidad de Oviedo, Spain)