- 2009/to present - Associate Professor, Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
- 2005/2009 - Ramón y Cajal research fellow, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
- 2001/2004 - Postdoctoral researcher, I. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH-Aachen, Germany.
- 2000 - PhD in Physics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
- 1996/2000 - PhD fellow, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC).
- 1995 - MSc Physics, Department of Applied Physics, Universitat de València.
Honors and Awards
Research Interests
- Nanotechnology and thin films.
- Scanning force microscopy.
- Stress engineering.
- Growth physics.
- Functional materials.
Relevant/Recent Publications
1. Mapping stress in polycrystals with sub-10 nm spatial resolution, C. Polop, E. Vasco, A. P. Perrino, R. García, Nanoscale 9, 13938, (2017). [URL]
2. Intrinsic Compressive Stress in Polycrystalline Films is Localized at Edges of the Grain Boundaries, Enrique Vasco and Celia Polop, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 256102, (2017). [URL]
3. Comment on "Correlation of shape changes of grain surfaces and reversible stress evolution during interruptions of polycrystalline film growth", E. Vasco, C. Polop, Applied Physics Letters 105, 246101 (2014). [URL]
4. Postcoalescence evolution of growth stress in polycrystalline films, A. González-González, C. Polop, and E. Vasco, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 056101, (2013). [URL]
5. Organization of Coordination Polymers on Surfaces by Direct Sublimation, L. Welte, U. García-Couceiro, O. Castillo, D. Olea, C. Polop, A. Guijarro, A. Luque, J. M. Gómez-Rodríguez, J. Gómez-Herrero, F. Zamora, Advanced Materials 21, 2025 (2009). [URL]
6. Preventing Kinetic Roughening in Physical Vapor-Phase-Deposited Films, E. Vasco, C. Polop, and J. L. Sacedón, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 016102, (2008). [URL]
7. The STM view of the initial stages of polycrystalline Ag film formation, C. Polop, C. Rosiepen, S. Bleikamp, R. Drese, J. Mayer, A. Dimyati, T. Michely, New Journal of Physics 9, 74 (2007). [URL]
8. Twin coarsening in CdTe(111) films grown on GaAs(100), C. Polop, I. Mora-Sero, C. Munuera, J. G. de Andres, V. Munoz-Sanjose, C. Ocal, Acta Materialia 54, 4285, (2006). [URL]
9. Step Edge Sputtering Yield at Gracing Incidence Ion Bombardment, Henri Hansen, Celia Polop, Thomas Michely, Andreas Friedrich, and Herbert M. Urbassek, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 246106, (2004). [URL]
10. Stacking-Fault Nucleation on Ir(111), Carsten Busse, Celia Polop, Michael Müller, Karsten Albe, Udo Linke, and Thomas Michely, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 056103, (2003). [URL]