Dr. Xavier Marti entangles two well-established profiles: a passionate interdisciplinary entrepreneur and an internationally recognized scientist. To connect these two universes, he has taken the leading role at IGSresearch (www.igsresearch.com). IGSresearch is a small enterprise that comprises the entire supply chain in the microelectronics manufacturing with the mission of delivering prototype devices of scientific groundbreaking ideas. Besides his core business, Dr. Marti has empowered the start-up incubator of University of Barcelona, Penyalab, having created two start-ups with steady income in less than one year. To realize his interdisciplinary obsession, in the past three years, he has propelled three topics (namely, magnetoresistance [1], piezoelectricity/piezoresistance [2], and geodynamic fault displacement [3]) from academic ideas to business highlights. He is now after developing invisible magnetic ink for the security sector [4]. These actions have been featured several times in the media, including TV and the economic pages of national press. In this talk, widely open for questions and debate, Xavier will walk along the key steps that were found to be essential to connect fundamental science and technology transfer.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oykkSmsoexc
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGNEDZeH3cs
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e21vTcYhIDM
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1Ft_OnRaq4
Dr. Santi Sala
Dr. Santi Sala is Managing Partner of NANOMOL TECHNOLOGIES. Since 2007 he is research associate in the Spanish Biomedical Networking centre on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN). He obtained his PhD in Chemistry by the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2005, with his thesis on particle design by supercritical fluids technology carried out at Materials Science Institute of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC). He is author of 14 publications in SCI journals and inventor of six national and international patents, 3 of them under exploitation. He has a strong background on applied research projects and technology transfer issues from academia to industry.