Pablo Albella is Associate Professor of Optics in the Department of Applied Physics at the University of Cantabria where he coordinates different research lines within the area of nano-optics, being thermoplasmonics, chiral sensing and optical forces the main ones. He is also visiting Researcher in the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London.
He obtained his PhD in late 2009 from the University of Cantabria, awarded with the prize of best thesis in physics that year. Following his PhD, he completed two long postdoctoral stays (almost 7 years): one at the Materials Physics Center (CFM) in San Sebastian where he also held a Guest Researcher Position at CIC Nanogune, and a four-year one at Imperial College London. In 2017, he obtained an Excellence Researcher position from the Government of the Canary Islands to join a research institute and create a research group in Nanophotonics. Subsequently, in June 2018, he obtained a Ramón y Cajal tenure track position.
He has been PI or co-PI of several competitive projects and published over 75 peer-reviewed JCR articles, reaching approximately 6,000 citations and an h-index of 36 as in june 2025. More than half of his publications are in the first decile of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR). In addition to journal articles, he has contributed to several book chapters. It is worth highlighting that he has delivered several keynotes and more than 30 invited talks at international conferences and is the founder and organizer of the international Nanophotonics, Plasmonics and Metamaterials workshop (NanoPlasMeta) that takes place yearly since 2019, as well as co-chair of the International conference "Photoptics" since 2020.
Lastly, mention that he also carries out editorial duties for several scientific journals, including Scientific Reports (Springer-Nature) and JQSRT (Elsevier), among others.
