S. Lanceros-Méndez graduated in physics at the University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Spain. He obtained
his Ph.D. degree at the Institute of Physics of the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany. He was a Research Scholar at Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA and a visiting scientist at the Pennsylvania State University, USA and the University of Potsdam, among others. Since 1998, he has been at the Physics Department of the University of Minho, Portugal, where he is an Associate Professor. From 2012 to 2014, he was also an Associate Researcher at the INL—International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory. In 2016, he joined BCMaterials, Basque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures, where he is Ikerbasque Research Professor and Scientific Director. He is a member of the Scientific Council of the School of
Science of the University of Minho, the directive committee of BCMaterials. He has been the coordinator of the research line on “Functional and smart materials and surfaces for advanced applications” at the Center of Physics of the University of Minho as well as the director of the Center of Physics of the University of Minho.
