Ana Asenjo Garcia
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Ana Asenjo-García | |
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| Alma mater | Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
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| Institutions | Columbia University ICFO California Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | Interacción de plasmones, luz y haces de electrones en la nanoescala (2014) |
Ana Asenjo-Garcia is a Spanish physicist who is a professor of physics at Columbia University. She investigates quantum optics and many body physics. She is part of a United States Department of Energy program focused on the creation of programmable quantum materials.
Asenjo-Garcia is from a small city in Spain.[1] She became interested in physics as a teenager, with a particular focus on astrophysics.[1] She was an undergraduate student at the Complutense University of Madrid, after which she stayed for a master's degree in theoretical physics.[citation needed] She was awarded a Ministry of Education scholarship to pursue her doctoral research in plasmonic nanostructures, after which she was a postdoctoral researcher at ICFO.[2] Asenjo-Garcia was named a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fellowship and moved to the California Institute of Technology.[citation needed]
