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Angel Rubio is the Director of the Theory Department of the Max Plank Institute for Structure and Dynamics of Matter at Hamburg where his research focuses on the modeling and theory of electronic and structural properties of condensed matter. His group works on developing novel theoretical tools, such as time-dependent functional theory for quantum electrodynamics and computational codes for the ab initio description and control of the dynamics of decoherence and dissipation in quantum many-body systems, and on characterizing new nonequilibrium states of matter. His work  has been recognized by several awards, including the 2018 Max Born medal and prize, 2016 Medal of the Spanish Royal Physical Society, the 2014 Premio Rey Jaime I for basic research, the 2006 DuPont Prize in nanotechnology, the 2005 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Humboldt Foundation, and two European Research Council advanced grants (2011 and 2016). He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the European Physical Society,  the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the European Academy of Sciences, the Academia Europaea, and a foreign associate member of the National Academy of Sciences.

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