VÃctor Valcárcel
Neoker S L, Spain
Biography
VÃctor Valcarcel has worked for over 20 years in the field of advanced composite materials, being his main focus production of single crystal alumina fibers. He has more than 20 papers in the best journals, with more than 160 citations, and more than 10 patents already commercialized. He has co-invented (together with Dr C. Cerecedo) the innovative VLS deposition of alfa-alumina whiskers. He and Ms Cerecedo have founded Neoker, S.L., the first company introducing this material in the market. Since 2014, he simultaneously work as CTO at Neoker Spain and is the Research Group Leader & Director of the Adv Composites Research Center, Dongguan Tsinghua Innovation Center. His project for scale up of single crystal aluimina fibers was selected in 2013 Pearl River Talent Plan, Guandong Province. The Pearl River Talent Plan was launched in 2009 to provide funding over a period of 10 years for leading international and domestic entrepreneurial innovation teams and individuals to establish innovation platforms in Guangdong Province. The program is open to all outstanding researchers of all nationalities.