The University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) is a high education institution offering 63 offcial degrees and developping research activities in all areas of knowledge. In particular, the Nuclear and Particle Physics department has a long experience in basic research using the most outstanding European infrastructures in the field like CERN, GSI or GANIL.
Relevant experience
Scientists from USC have competences in the experimental and theoretical investigations on Nuclear Physics. In particular they have been highly involved in experiments at GSI and n_TOF, CERN, dealing with fission and neutron-induced reactions. They also have participated in several EC projects related to basic nuclear data for nuclear waste transmutation like HINDAS, n-TOF-ND-ADS, EUROTRANS or ANDES.
Scientific and technical personnel involved
- Dr. José Benlliure: Full professor at USC. Obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Valencia in 1995 with work on nuclear multi-fragmentation done at GANIL, France, from 1991 to 1995. Postdoctoral positions at LPC-Caen, France, in 1995 and GSI, Germany, from 1996 to 1998. In 1998 he obtained and associated lectureship at USC, in 2002 a full lectureship and in 2011 was appointed as full professor in the same university. His main scientific activity deals with the investigation of nuclear reactions in particular fission, spallation and fragmentation. He is co-author of more than 150 publications has presented numerous invited talks in international conferences and has supervised six PhDs. Presently he is member the GANIL Scientific Council and the FAIR Council.