Instrumentation Unit

Dr Gustavo Ceballos earned his degree in Chemistry at the Universidad Central de Venezuela in 1989. He obtained his PhD in 1996 at the Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie der Universität Bonn (Germany). In 1997 he moved to the Institut für Experimentalphysik der Freie Universität Berlin to complete his postdoctoral studies, and between 2001 and 2002 he worked in the Low-Temperature Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy Group at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, also in Berlin. From 2002 to 2006 he was a research scientist in the XSTM and Low-Temperature STM of Nanostructures Division at the Laboratorio Nazionale TASC-INFM (Trieste, Italy). In 2006 he joined the then ICN as a senior scientist and later he created the ICN2 Instrumentation Unit. He participates actively in the research led by the ICN2 Atomic Manipulation and Spectroscopy Group.