
Alcon, Isaac
Isaac Alcón (IA) obtained the BSc in Chemistry from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) in 2011, and a MSc in Nanotechnology and Materials Science in 2013 at the same university. He then carried out a PhD at the University of Barcelona (UB) under the supervision of ICREA Prof Stefan Bromley and Prof Francesc Illas, where he focused on studying, via numerical simulations, the electronic and magnetic properties of radical-based molecules and 2D conjugated polymers (2DCPs). After completing the PhD in 2018, he did a postdoctoral stay in the group of Prof Mads Brandbyge at the Technical University of Denmark, which was focused on the modelling of quantum transport in carbon 2D nanomaterials (2018-19). After that, as a Humboldt postdoctoral fellow, IA joined the group of Prof Beate Paulus at the Freie Universität Berlin, working on the simulation of full-carbon molecular nanoelectronic devices (2019-21). In 2021, as a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellow, he visited the group of ICREA Prof Stephan Roche at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), where he has focused on modelling the effect of electrostatic disorder and finite temperature on the quantum transport properties of carbon 2D nanostructures (2021-24). Since October 2024 he is back at UB working on the modelling of molecular materials and 2DCPs for electrocatalysis and nanoelectronic applications.