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MARTA PRADA

Dept. of Physics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1150 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53706, USA

E-mail: prada(remove_this_antispam)@wisc.edu

 

PROFESSIONAL CARREER

  • Sep. '06 - Present:
    Postdoc (Honorary Fellow) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA), with Profs. R. Joynt and R. H. Blick.
  • Jan. '06 - Aug '06:
    Postdoc (Research Associate) at the University of Purdue (USA), with Prof. G. Klimeck.
  • Aug. '04 - May '05:
    Research Associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA), with Prof. R. H. Blick.
  • Aug. '01 - Dec. '05:
    PhD Student at the University of Leeds on the topic of Electronic Interactions In Few Electron Quantum Dot Networks For Memory Storage Applications , supervised by Prof. P. Harrison. Project funded by Filtronic PLC.
  • July '99 - July '01:
    Fellowship at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN), granted by Centro de Tecnologia y Desarrollo(CDTI).
  • Jan. '99 - July '99:
    Stipend Formacion de Personal Investigador (FPI) given, fellowship to support a PhD thesis work at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, (UAM).
  • Sep. '95 - June '98:
    Studies of Physics on the topic of Condensed Matter Theory, UAM.

    • LANGUAGES

  • Spanish: Native
  • English: fluent, high level
  • French: fluent, high level
  • German: colloquial

    • COMPUTER SKILLS

  • Operating systems: Windows, Unix Systems (Linux, Solaris, Sun), IBM-36 Systems.
  • Programming languages: Fortran, C, C++, HTML, Java-Script

    • PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • APS: Member of the American Physical Society since '04.
  • IOP: Member of the Institute of Physics since '02.
  • WYLUG: Member of West Yorkshire Linux Group since '02.
  • IYA(UK): Member of the Light on Yoga association since '02.
  • AEYI: Member of the Spanish Iyengar Yoga association since '01.

    • HOBBIES

  • YOGA: Regular practitioner since 1995. Teacher training ('02-'04). Yoga teacher since Nov. '04.
  • CLIMBING: Since '94, three championships won: Competicion de Escalada Placax, 1st lady, Madrid '97; Championnat Genevois, 1er Dame, 1st lady, Geneva, Jun '01. Leeds Bouldering Competition, 1st lady, Leeds, UK, March '02.
  • OTHERS: Swimming, astrophysics, Linux.