# Ms. ANA CREMADES Visiting Scholar in Applied Physics ![ANA](/sites/g/files/omnuum986/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/2025-07/Ana-2.jpg?itok=fBrLFNtB) email Ana Cremades is a Full Professor in the Department of Materials Physics at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). A certified Business Mentor, trained in Governance and experienced as trustee at different entities, she is an expert in innovation, transfer, and research policies and has promoted numerous initiatives to boost technology-based entrepreneurship and public-private collaboration. After a period in public service as Director General for Research and Technological Innovation in the Community of Madrid, she enjoys a sabbatical stay appointed as Visiting Scholar in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard and as Visiting Scientist at the Microsystems Technology Laboratories at MIT. The sabbatical period is building a strong research network with relevant scientist, such as Prof. Robert Westervelt (SEAS-Harvard) and Prof. Palacios (MTL-MIT) promoting collaborations on wide band gap semiconductors for future devices. This collaboration seeks long-lasting synergies between complementary experts and groups from Harvard, UCM and MIT, enabling technological breakthroughs in a mid/long term as well as benefiting young scientist of the involved groups by means of future specialized training and secondments. Her research activity focuses on the synthesis of semiconductor nanomaterials, the characterization of their optical, electronic, and surface properties, and the proof of concept of their applications in electronics, energy, and sensors. She has completed over 27 months of extended research stays abroad at Siemens (Munich), the University of Aveiro, and the Walter Schottky Institute at the Technical University of Munich and has participated in more than 20 short stays at the Elettra Synchrotron (Trieste). She has been the principal investigator in national and international projects and contracts with companies. Her research output includes more than 170 publications, 8 theses supervised with international recognition, and 5 international patents, two of which made her a finalist in the Royal Chemistry Society’s Emerging Technologies Competition in 2015. She has also contributed as an author/editor in 14 books. Her latest books are "Sustainable Nanomaterials for Energy Applications," was published by IOP in December 2023, and the Report “Semiconductors. Discovering Opportunities in the Semiconductors Strategic Sector in Spain”, published by the COTEC Foundation in July 2025.