BIO
María José García Borge completed her PhD Physics at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) in 1982, before taking up a postdoctoral research position at the University of Arizona (United States). A Research Professor at the Institute for the Structure of Matter (CSIC), her specialist field is the nuclear structure of exotic nuclei, where her findings include new radon isotopes and new exotic modes of decay. She has also characterized the halo structure of nuclei by numerous processes. Author of more than 300 publications, between 2012 and 2015 she was head of ISOLDE, the CERN facility dedicated to frontier research on the atomic nucleus. She holds honorary doctorates from Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) and the University of Huelva (Spain), and chairs the scientific committees of both the Enrico Fermi Institute (Rome) and the Laboratory of Subatomic Physics and Related Technologies (Subatech) in Nantes (France).
