2022-Present: Post-doctoral researcher at Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart-Germany.
2018-2022: PhD in Physics, Institute of Physics "Gleb Wataghin", University of Campinas, São Paulo-Brazil.
Apr 2021 – Aug 2021: Research stay, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay-France.
2016-2018: Master of Science (Applied Physics), Institute of Physics "Gleb Wataghin", University of Campinas, São Paulo-Brazil.
2015-2016: Instructor of Elementary Physics and Mathematics, University of Los Andes, Mérida-Venezuela.
2014: Instructor of Elementary Physics and Mathematics, Santiago Mariño Polytechnic University Institute, Mérida-Venezuela.
2009-2013 : Bachelor of Science (Physics), University of Los Andes, Mérida-Venezuela.
Selected Publications:
R.J. Peña Román et al Tip-Induced and Electrical Control of the Photoluminescence Yield of Monolayer WS2, Nano Letters 22 (23), 9244, (2022).
R.J. Peña Román et al Electroluminescence of monolayer WS2in a scanning tunneling microscope: the effect of bias polarity on the spectral and angular distribution of the emitted light, Physical Review B 106, 08541, (2022).
R.J. Peña Román et al Design
and implementation of a device based on an off-axis parabolic mirror to
perform luminescence experiments in a scanning tunneling microscope, Review of Scientific Instruments 93 (4), (2022).
R.J. Peña Román et al Band gap measurements of monolayer h-BN and insights into carbon-related point defects, 2D Materials 8 (4), 044001, (2021).
R.J. Peña Román et al Tunneling-current-induced local excitonic luminescence in p-doped WSe2 monolayers, Nanoscale 12 (25), 13460, (2020).