Daniel Antonio Tordera Salvador (born 17 January 1986) is a Spanish chemist, material scientist and writer. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Physical Chemistry Department at the University of Valencia.[1]

Daniel Tordera
Alma materUniversity of Valencia

École européenne de chimie, polymères et matériaux

University of Strasbourg
Scientific career
FieldsOrganic Electronics, Photonics
InstitutionsUniversity of Valencia

Early life and education

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Tordera was born in Valencia, where he studied Chemistry at the University of Valencia. He graduated First of his promotion in 2009.[2][3] He then moved to Strasbourg, where he earned his Material Science Engineers degree at the École européene de chimie, polymères et matériaux. He earned his PhD at the University of Valencia in 2014, working on light-emitting electrochemical cells.[4] He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Linköping, studying photonics and plasmonic materials.[5] He was then a researcher at Holst Centre (TNO) in Eindhoven working on organic photodetectors, position which he held until October 2020 when he accepted a position as Assistant Professor at the University of Valencia.

Research

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Tordera joined University of Valencia in 2009 where he worked in light-emitting electrochemical cells (LECs). He determined the elusive operational mechanism of LECs and dramatically increased the performance of these devices.[6] He was a visiting scientist at University of California, Santa Barbara, where he applied his knowledge on conjugated polyelectrolytes.[7] He then started a company with the aim of commercializing products based on his findings.[8] He joined the University of Linköping to research the optical and thermal properties of plasmonic nanoholes. He worked on the development of a plasmonic thermoelectric device,[9] a photoconductive paper[10] and a plasmonic display,[11] among others. He then joined Holst Centre leading a team working on near-infrarred organic photodetectors.[12] There he created the first large-area thin-film vein detector[13] and contributed to the progress of photodetectors in the fields of biometrics and healthcare.[14][15] He has published over 50 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals and is the inventor of 4 patents.[16][17]

Awards

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2020 - Society of Information Display Distinguished Paper.[18]

2015 - Nanomatmol Award: Best PH.D. in Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials in Spain by the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry.[19][20]

2015 - Outstanding Doctorate Award by the Universidad de Valencia.[20]

2012 - European Materials Research Society Spring Meeting Young Scientist Award.[21]

2010 - Award “Suschem Young Chemistry Researchers” to the Highest Academic Achievement in Spain by the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry[2][3]

Personal life

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Daniel Tordera considers himself a politically active person. He has developed a satirical political video game Pedro Sanchez Simulator that was played by more than 50,000 people in less than a month and gained lot of media attention.[22] He enjoys writing, photography and making music.

He received the honor of being one of the 10 finalists to the 2018 Planeta awards for his novel "El Arte de la Fuga" [23]

References

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  1. ^ "Fitxa persona". www.uv.es. Retrieved 2020-11-27.
  2. ^ a b "Se fallan los II Premios Suschem Jóvenes Investigadores Químicos – 2010". Química y Sociedad (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2018-07-11.
  3. ^ a b "Más ciencia en la formación, oportunidades para los jóvenes investigadores, y apoyo a la industria" (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2018-07-11.
  4. ^ Salvador, Daniel Tordera (2014). Stable and efficient Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells (Thesis) (in Spanish). Universitat de València.
  5. ^ "Linköping University". Retrieved 2018-07-11.
  6. ^ Tordera, Daniel; Meier, Sebastian; Lenes, Martijn; Costa, Rubén D.; Ortí, Enrique; Sarfert, Wiebke; Bolink, Henk J. (2012-01-03). "Simple, Fast, Bright, and Stable Light Sources". Advanced Materials. 24 (7): 897–900. Bibcode:2012AdM....24..897T. doi:10.1002/adma.201104047. ISSN 0935-9648. PMID 22213577. S2CID 27910646.
  7. ^ "Nguyen Research Group". Retrieved 2018-07-11.
  8. ^ "LEC-VAL Lighting". Gust. Retrieved 2018-07-11.
  9. ^ Tordera, Daniel; Zhao, Dan; Volkov, Anton V.; Crispin, Xavier; Jonsson, Magnus P. (2017-04-25). "Thermoplasmonic Semitransparent Nanohole Electrodes". Nano Letters. 17 (5): 3145–3151. Bibcode:2017NanoL..17.3145T. doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b00574. ISSN 1530-6984. PMID 28441500.
  10. ^ Sandberg, Mats; Tordera, Daniel; Granberg, Hjalmar; Sawatdee, Anurak; Dedic, Dina; Berggren, Magnus; Jonsson, Magnus P. (2016). "Photoconductive zinc oxide-composite paper by pilot paper machine manufacturing". Flexible and Printed Electronics. 1 (4): 044003. doi:10.1088/2058-8585/1/4/044003. ISSN 2058-8585. S2CID 8959008.
  11. ^ Xiong, Kunli; Tordera, Daniel; Emilsson, Gustav; Olsson, Oliver; Linderhed, Ulrika; Jonsson, Magnus P.; Dahlin, Andreas B. (2017-10-18). "Switchable Plasmonic Metasurfaces with High Chromaticity Containing Only Abundant Metals". Nano Letters. 17 (11): 7033–7039. Bibcode:2017NanoL..17.7033X. doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b03665. ISSN 1530-6984. PMID 29028347.
  12. ^ "Flexible Fingerprint Sensors". Retrieved 2018-07-11.
  13. ^ TNO, Holst Centre • Open-Innovation by imec and. "Holst Centre's near infrared vein detection sensor takes biometric security to a new level". Holst Centre. Retrieved 2020-11-27.
  14. ^ Tordera, Daniel; Peeters, Bart; Akkerman, Hylke B.; Breemen, Albert J. J. M. van; Maas, Joris; Shanmugam, Santhosh; Kronemeijer, Auke J.; Gelinck, Gerwin H. (2019). "A High-Resolution Thin-Film Fingerprint Sensor Using a Printed Organic Photodetector". Advanced Materials Technologies. 4 (11): 1900651. doi:10.1002/admt.201900651. ISSN 2365-709X.
  15. ^ Simone, Giulio; Tordera, Daniel; Delvitto, Ezequiel; Peeters, Bart; Breemen, Albert J. J. M. van; Meskers, Stefan C. J.; Janssen, René A. J.; Gelinck, Gerwin H. (2020). "High-Accuracy Photoplethysmography Array Using Near-Infrared Organic Photodiodes with Ultralow Dark Current". Advanced Optical Materials. 8 (10): 1901989. doi:10.1002/adom.201901989. ISSN 2195-1071.
  16. ^ "Google Scholar Daniel Tordera". Retrieved 2018-07-11.
  17. ^ "Daniel Tordera Salvador Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications - Justia Patents Search". patents.justia.com. Retrieved 2018-07-11.
  18. ^ "Distinguished Papers, Best of Display Week 2020". Journal of the Society for Information Display. doi:10.1002/(ISSN)1938-3657. S2CID 242509460.
  19. ^ "Nanomatmol Award". Retrieved 2018-07-11.
  20. ^ a b SemiColonWeb. "ICMol". www.icmol.es. Retrieved 2018-07-11.
  21. ^ SemiColonWeb. "ICMol". www.icmol.es. Retrieved 2018-07-11.
  22. ^ "Jugando a ser Pedro Sánchez". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-07-11.
  23. ^ "Diez novelas finalistas del LXVII Premio Planeta". ELECONOMISTA (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-10-09.
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