Jordi Fraxedas (Tarragona,1962), PhD in Physics (1990) from the University of Stuttgart (Germany), is a CSIC Scientific Researcher at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) in Barcelona (Catalonia). His thesis work was performed at the Max Planck Institut für Festkörperforschung (Stuttgart) and at BESSY (Berlin, Germany), under the supervision of Prof. M. Cardona, and worked at ESRF (Grenoble, France), CERN (Geneva, Switzerland), Materials Science Institute of Barcelona (ICMAB) and at CNRS (Angers, France). His research activity is focused on interfacial phenomena and surface science using synchrotron radiation-based spectroscopies and scanning probe microscopies. He has co-authored 160 peer-reviewed scientific articles (>4000 citations, H=32) and published the books Molecular Organic Materials: From Molecules to Crystalline Solids (Cambridge University Press, 2006), Water at Interfaces: A Molecular Approach (Taylor&Francis/CRC, 2014) and Molecular Materials: Preparation, Characterization and Applications (Taylor&Francis/CRC 2017). ORCID: 0000-0002-2821-4831

Keynote talk title: Lowering the activation temperature of Ti-Zr-V non-evaporable getter films by removing surface carbon contamination