Luis Vicente Rodriguez de Marcos

I was born and raised in Madrid, Spain. I earned my bachelor's degree (2008) and master’s degree (2010) in theoretical physics from Universidad Complutense de Madrid. During my Ph.D. with the coatings group at the Spanish Research Council (CSIC), I specialized in determining the optical constants of materials and developing optical coatings for the far UV (FUV) and extreme UV (EUV). I successfully completed my Ph.D. in 2015. In 2016, I moved to Singapore, where I joined the Singapore Synchrotron Light Source as a beamline scientist. My work was focused on the EUV characterization of mask blanks for the next generation of photolithography tools. In my spare time, I explored the application of metamaterials in UV optics and indulged in my passion for soccer.

I later joined Tohoku University in Japan in 2018, where I combined seismic adventures and massive Sushi ingestion with research on gratings for X-ray interferometry. Afterwards, I joined the Catholic University of America in April 2019 through CRESST II. Here I am nowadays as associate research scientist supporting the coatings laboratory at GSFC. My research efforts are motivated to increase the reflectivity of FUV mirrors and the exploration of metamaterials in the FUV spectral range. I am a member of the GSFC Orange soccer team.