Sergey Shevyrtalov – Moscow 2014 – Laboratory of Novel Magnetic Materials

Alexandr Vinogradov

Associate professor Alexandr V. Vinogradov is the Head of the Biochemistry Cluster and the Vise-head of the Laboratory of Solution Chemistry of Advanced Materials&Technologies at ITMO University, St. Petersburg.
Alexandr Vinogradov was born in 1985, in 2007 he graduated from Ivanovo State University of Chemistry and Technology, Russia, and after that he was a Lecturer and a Researcher in this University. He defended PhD degree in Inorganic Chemistry with thesis title “Photoactive nanostructured titania-based materials”. In 2008-2009 he educated at The Presidential Program of training manager in Stuttgart, Germany. In 2013-2015 he performed two scientific projects and was a Visiting professor in Liepzig University, Germany. In 2019 he became a Doctor of Sciences (habilitation degree).
Dr. Vinogradov published more than 80 articles in refereed journals and 4 Monographs. His research interests lie in field of synthesis and development of the new hybrids and composite, room-temperature synthesis and crystal growth of new MOFs, low-temperature sol-gel synthesis, multilayer structures, prepared by soft chemistry approach, porous materials, nanoengineering, inkjet printing of optical nanostructures, optically active heterostructures, sol-gel materials with extremely low and high refractive indexes.

Sergei Guriev

Prof. Sergei Guriev, born in 1971, graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) with the Master of Science Summa Cum Laude. In 1994 he received Ph.D. (Candidate of Science) Degree in Physics and Mathematics, with the thesis title “Some Mathematical Models of Saving and Investment”. In 2002 Sergei Guriev became a Doctor of Science in Economics (habilitation degree).
He was a Lecturer at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow State University, and the New Economic School as well as a Senior Research Fellow at the Computing Center of Russian Academy of Science. In 1997-98 Sergei Guriev was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Economics of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 2003-2004 – Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics in Princeton University.
For 15 years he was on the tenure-track and tenured faculty of the New Economic School, Moscow, including serving as the School’s Rector from 2004 till 2013. In 2016-2019 he was the Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Currently, Dr. Guriev is a Professor of Economics and the Director of Graduate Programs in Economics at the Department of Economics of Sciences Po, Paris.
He is also a Research Fellow and the Leader of the Research and Policy Network on Populism at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, London. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the International Economic Association, a Global Member of the Trilateral Commission and an Ordinary Member of the Academia Europaea.
His research interests include political economics, economics of development and transition, contract theory, corporate governance, labor mobility. He has published more than 40 research articles in international academic journals and 15 book chapters. His book “Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century” (co-authored with Daniel Triesman) is forthcoming in the Princeton University Press in the Spring 2022.

María del Puerto Morales

María del Puerto Morales is Professor at the Institute of Material Science in Madrid (ICMM/CSIC), Spain since 2018. She got her degree in Chemistry by the University of Salamanca and her PhD in Material Science from the Madrid Autonomous University in 1993. From 1994 to 1996, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Systems in the University of Wales (UK).
She has authored several book chapters (12), patents (5) and more than 260 articles (h=60, >14.500 citations) and has been the principal investigator from the CSIC in two European-funded research projects in the 7FP (Multifun and NanoMag) and now, she is CSIC IP in MSCA-RISE-2020, NESTOR (2021-2024) and is participating in the FET-OPEN, HOTZYMES 2019-2021.
Her research activities are focused on the area of nanotechnology, in particular in the synthesis and characterization of magnetic nanoparticles, including the mechanism of particle formation, surface modification and its performance in biomedical applications such as biomolecule separation, NMR imaging, drug delivery and hyperthermia, and also in catalysis and environmental remediation.

Francesco Pineider

Francesco Pineider received his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Florence in 2009 with a thesis on the properties of single molecule magnet monolayers over gold surfaces under the supervision of Prof. Roberta Sessoli. He spent his post-doc years between the University of Florence and the University of Padua/CNR working in the emerging field of magnetoplasmonics, the interaction between magnetic materials with plasmonic nanostructures.

Francesco has been awarded with several early career awards, among which the European Award for Doctoral Thesis on Molecular Magnetism (2010) from the European Institute of Molecular Magnetism for his PhD thesis work and the NEST award for Nanoscience (2014) from Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa for his work on magnetoplasmonics.

He is currently asociate professor at the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry at the University of Pisa.

Roberto Zysler

Dr. Roberto Daniel Zysler is Senior Researcher at CONICET (Argentina) and Professor at the Balseiro Institute (National University of Cuyo), Argentina.
He obtained his Bachelor of Physics degree from the Balseiro Institute in 1985 and in 1990 he obtained the degree of Doctor of Physics from the Balseiro Institute, basing his Thesis on Solid Magnetism. In 1992 and 1993 he carried out a postdoctoral stay in Rome, Italy, a fellow of the European Community and CONICET. During the post-doctorate, he conducted studies on magnetic nanoparticle systems and systems related to HTc superconductors. In 1994, he joined the Magnetic Resonances Laboratory of the “Centro Atómico Bariloche” as Researcher of Conicet and professor at the Balseiro Institute. From this moment, he has been working on the study of magnetic nanoparticle systems and, in parallel, since 2005 on the applications of these nanoparticles in medicine and biology.
He has trained human resources by the advisor of degree projects, Master’s theses, Doctoral (in Physics, Engineering and Medicine), and researchers from different disciplines. He has published more than 160 papers in international journals, 12 book chapters and 2 articles for broad public, 4 patents on the use of magnetic nanoparticles in bio-medicine, presented 99 papers at national congresses and another 184 at international congresses. He is a founding partner of 2 companies, Natec SRL on diagnostic systems using nanoparticles and biological agents, and Lizys SA which produces functionalized magnetic nanoparticles and nanotechnological developments, being president of the latter.

Manuel Vázquez

Prof. Manuel Vázquez is a head of the Group on “Nanomagnetism and Magnetization Processes” Institute of Materials Science of Madrid Spanish National Council for Research, CSIC
Main Achievements:
– Distinguished Services Award (2021) IEEE Magnetics Society
– Invited Professor to Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil (2019)
– President IEEE Magnetic Society (2017-8)
– Magnetism Award (S.Velayos) for International promotion of Spain Magnetism (2017)
– Invited Visiting Professor to Hubei University, Wuhan, China (2016)
– International Head “Magnetic Sensors Lab.”, Urals Fed. Un., Ekaterinburg, Rusia (2016-)
– Program Committee Chair, ICM, Barcelona (2015)
– Secretary Magnetism Commission, IUPAP (2011-4)
– Founder of IEEE Magnetics Society Spain Chapter (2007)
– Co-founder (2002) and President of Spanish Club of Magnetism (2006-8)
– Manager Strategic Action Nanoscience & Nanotechn. (Spain Ministry Sci. & Techn., 2004-9)
– Founder of the Group “Nanomagnetism and Magnetization Processes” at ICMM/CSIC (2001)
– Director Laboratory, Instituto de Magnetismo Aplicado, UCM-RENFE-CSIC, 1992-2000
– Professor of Research (Inst. Materials Science at Madrid, CSIC, from 1996)
– Invited Visiting Researcher (Univ. Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 1996)
– Invited Visiting Researcher (Univ. Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1989)
– NATO Invited Researcher (Techn. Univ. Denmark, Copenhague, 1985)
– Alexander von Humboldt Post-doctoral Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute, Stuttgart, 1981-3

Rastislav Varga

Rastislav Varga is a Head of Centre of Progressive Materials at TIP UPJS. He deals mainly with production and characterization of soft magnetic materials, mainly in the shape thin wires. He is also the founder and president of BOD of RVmagnetics a.s. that deals with the development of sensors and actuators based on thin magnetic wires.

Kalliopi Trohidou

Dr Κ. Trohidou is Director of Research at the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology of NCSR “Demokritos” in Athens, Greece. She is head of the Computational Nanostructured materials Group and the research laboratory.
Her research interests are at the area of the theoretical Studies and Computational Modeling of nanostructured materials and include studies of systems of magnetic
nanoparticles for industrial, biomedical and energy applications. She is author of more than 120 scientific articles 8 chapters in books and editor of a book and member of the
organising and scientific committee for more than 20 International Conferences. She has been involved as partner and co-ordinator in several EU and other national and international projects. She has many International collaborations in particular with partners from the EU countries.

Giulia Serrano

Giulia Serrano is a material scientist working on molecular and inorganic nanostructures on surfaces for the development of innovative functional materials for spintronics and sensing technologies.
She received Bachelor and Master Degrees in Material Science at the “Tor Vergata” University of Rome (Italy) investigating self-assembling and electron confinement properties of silicon nanostructures on metal surfaces by low-temperature STM. She carried out the Ph.D. in Physics, at the at the “Tor Vergata” University of Rome, developing a seminal research activity on the study of a wide-band gap semiconductor in liquid environment. She has been post-doc researcher at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz working on radio frequency-STS (rf-STS) technique for the study of magnetic systems and then she moved as senior post-doc to the Laboratory of Molecular Magnetism (LA.M.M.) at the Department of Chemistry “Ugo Schiff” of the University of Florence (Italy) investigating magnetic nano-assemblies of SMMs and organic molecules with spin functionalities on surfaces by STM, photoemission spectroscopies and synchrotron radiation. Recently she moved to the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Florence, starting an independent research activity focused on the investigation and control of photo-chemical reaction at surfaces. She recently developed new frontiers for sensing technologies by discovering a novel mechanism to evaluate the superconducting state of a surface using molecular magnetization.

Rudolf Schaefer

Rudolf Schaefer studied Materials Science and received the Ph.D. in Engineering at Erlangen-University in 1990. After Postdoc stays at IBM Research in Yorktown Heights and Forschungszentrum Juelich he moved to IFW Dresden in 1993. In 2011, R. Schaefer was appointed adjunct professor for Magnetic Materials at TU Dresden. He became Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Magnetics Society in 2013 and currently chairs the Conference Executive Committee of the Society. His interest areas span magnetic materials with focus on magnetic microstructures. He has published more than 200 technical articles in peer-reviewed journals, including book chapters and 2 monographs

Alexandr Sadovnikov

Alexandr Sadovnikov was born in Russia in 1987. He graduated from Saratov State University (SSU) in 2009 and has got his PhD in 2012.
Now he has a position of Assistant Professor in Institute of Physics of SSU. He is a head of the Laboratiry of Magnetic metamaterials, SSU. His research interests are mainly focused on:
– Brillouin spectroscopy and space/time resolved measurements of dynamical magnetic processes in multilayer magnetic films and magnonic structures
– Design and study of tunable spin-wave propagation in magnonic networks and magnonic crystals
– Study of spin waves in irregular and layered magnetic structures toward applications for magnonic logic
– Micromagnetic modelling of spin waves excitation and propagation
– Spin-wave coupling in magnetic structures: linear and nonlinear dynamics
– Straintronics: spin-wave tunability within multiferroic composites
– Spin wave excitation through spin polarized current in multilayer magnetic structures
– Topological stabilization of skyrmions in magnetic thin films with the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction.

Yuriy Raikher

Yuriy Raikher, graduated from Perm State University in 1971, obtained there M.Sci., Ph.D., and Dr. Sci. Hab. Since 1971 works at Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics, Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (Perm, Russia). In 1991 became Head of Laboratory, now Laboratory of Physics and Mechanics of Soft Matter at ICMM; beginning 2013 also Professor (part-time) of Department of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at Ural Federal University (Ekaterinburg, Russia).
Main fields of research: theoretical studies of statistical thermodynamics and kinetics of magnetic fine particles and composite materials based on such: ordinary and viscoelastic magnetic fluids, ferrogels, nanoparticle doped liquid crystals, soft magnetic elastomers, etc. About 210 peer-reviewed articles on magnetic relaxation and resonances in these media, their optics and rheology; co-author of Burylov-Raikher model in theory of ferronematic suspensions. At present, the research scope comprises, in particular, magnetomechanics of elastomeric micro- and nanocomposites; magnetodynamics of viscoelastic ferrofluids and ferrogels.
Collaborations with Technical Universities of Dresden and Ilmenau (Germany). Member of the Board on Physics of Condensed Matter of Russian Academy of Sciences, Member of International Steering Committee on Magnetic Fluids.

Maxim Nikitin

Dr. Maxim Nikitin heads the Nanobiotechnology Laboratory at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Moscow, Russia) and Nanobiomedicine Department at the Sirius University of Science and Technology (Sirius, Russia). He received his Master’s degree with Honors from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) and Ph.D. degree from Russian Academy of Sciences. Dr. M. Nikitin invented logic-gated and biocomputing structures for targeted drug delivery, cell sorting and labeling; developed innovative label-free optical bio- and chemical sensors; ultra-sensitive methods for detection of magnetic nanoparticles in vivo for different theranostic applications, investigated pharmacokinetics, toxicity, biotransformation of nanoagents. Dr. M. Nikitin is the author of more than 65 papers published in high-ranking peer-reviewed journals and 12 patents. In 2018, Dr. M. Nikitin was honored with the highest scientific award for young Russian scientists by the President of Russian Federation. He also won the second prizes at the worldwide scientific contest Falling Walls Lab 2016 (Berlin, Germany) and Biosensors & Bioelectronics Award (Goteborg, Sweden); Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Technovation Cup’2009 and a few other scientific prizes. Since 2020, Dr. M. Nikitin is the member of the Presidium of the Russian Presidential Council for Science and Education.

Giuseppe Muscas

Giuseppe Muscas is a researcher and docent at the Physics Department of Cagliari University. He took a Master’s Degree in Material Science in 2011 at the University of Cagliari (Italy). In 2015, he took an international Ph.D. in Physics (Doctor Europaeus) at Cagliari University and in collaboration with Uppsala University (Sweden). His activity focused on synthesizing and studying magnetic nanoparticle-based materials and nanocomposites. In the same year, he joined the Materials Physics Division of Uppsala University as Postdoctoral Researcher. He expanded his knowledge on the preparation and characterization of magnetic thin films, in particular, amorphous alloys, artificial multi-phase, and multilayer systems. Since 2017, he worked as a Researcher in the same group, studying flexible magnetic nanostructures for spintronic applications. In 2019, he went back to Cagliari University, with the support of the PON-AIM project, taking a Researcher position to lead the development of magnetic nanoparticle-based materials for thermoelectric applications. His research interest is now focused on developing nanostructured magnetic materials in different forms and on the optimization of their combination to realize artificial materials.

Liudmila Makarova

Dr. L.A.Makarova is an assistant professor at Lomonosov Moscow State University, she is working in the scientific group under the supervision of Prof. N.S. Perov. She has been doing research in the field of magnetic elastomers since 2013 and received her Ph.D. in 2018. For the dissertation, new materials based on elastomers with multiferroic properties were first developed. Experimental work began to be supplemented by work on the numerical modeling of their properties. Dr. L. Makarova actively collaborate with various scientific groups.
Her field of interests covers such studies as a study of a new single-phase method of the synthesis of biocompatible composites with magnetic nanoparticles for theranostics (drug delivery, diagnostics, therapy), a new method of retinal engraftment using a magnetic seal based on a biocompatible magnetic elastomer and others. Another area of her work is the development and research of layered composites, in which one layer is a polymer with ferroelectric properties, the second is a layer of a magnetic elastomer. Such laminated composites exhibit gigantic values of the induced voltage, are flexible and in the future may become the base for universal sensors and converters of electromagnetic energy and energy of mechanical vibrations.
Now she researches with an emphasis on both engineering and biomedical applications of new multiferroic materials. Her work has been repeatedly supported by the RFBR, and she was also the owner of the MSU Scholarship for Young Scientists (2019-2020). Concurrently, Dr. Makarova works at the IKBFU, where her ideas of three-component multiferroics based on polymer and fine magnetic and ferroelectric particles were continued in the study of the possibility of their use for differentiation of stem cells.

Alberto López-Ortega

Dr.Alberto López-Ortega graduated in Chemical Sciences (2007) at the University of Barcelona (Spain) and doctorated in Materials Science (2012) at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (Spain). Subsequently, he carried out two postdoctoral stays (Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Italy and CIC nanoGUNE, Spain) of three years duration each. For a year and a half, he worked as an assistant professor at the University of Castilla-La Mancha and nowadays, he is currently an assistant professor at the Public University of Navarre and the Institute of Advanced Materials and Mathematics.
During this period, he has been awarded with Spanish doctoral and postdoctoral scholarships, distinguished with the award for the best doctoral thesis by the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2012), participates in 9 research projects and has several proposals accepted as IP in large-scale facilities.
He has (co) author of 40 articles in international peer-reviewed journals and has made 32 communications in international conferences.
His research lines are focused into the development of new nanostructured magnetic materials to address current technological requirements, highlighting both the study of the mechanisms that govern their growth process and their fundamental properties. Specifically, his research lines address:
I) the development of new rare earth-free permanent magnets,
II) the study of the magnetic coupling phenomena in multicomponent systems,
III) the optical and magneto-plasmonic coupling in hybrid nanoparticles and 2D meta-structures,
IV) the design of novel massive materials formed by 2D and 3D assembly of nanoparticles.

Sara Laureti

Sara Laureti is graduated in Chemistry (110/110 cum laude) and she has got a PhD in Material Science at University of Rome “La Sapienza” (2007) with a thesis titled “Magnetic anisotropy in Co-based thin films”, the research activity being carried out at ISM-CNR where she’s currently working as Permanent Researcher. Since the beginning of her scientific career her work was devoted to the study of magnetic nanomaterials in form of thin films and multilayers, patterned systems, nanoparticles and nanocomposite for important technological applications. In particular, she was involved in a many National and European Projects and she was the coordinator of a national FIRB project entitled “Tailoring the magnetic anisotropy of nanostructures for enhancing the magnetic stability of magnetoresistive devices” and was the principal investigator of a 2-years BAG project at the EXAFS beamline (LISA, ESRF, Grenoble) titled “Correlation between atomic ordering and magnetic properties in binary magnetic alloys”. She is author of more than 40 papers on ISI journals focused of surface and interface effects in thin films and nanoparticles; size effect in exchange coupled systems; spin valves structures for application in magnetoresistive devices; structural phase transitions in ferromagnetic alloys.

Òscar Iglesias

Òscar Iglesias graduated in Theoretical Physics (1990) and obtained his Ph. D. in Physics (2002) at the University of Barcelona after stays at the City University of NY (E. Chudnovsky) and at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (P.C.E. Stamp) where he gained expertise in the theoretical models of magnetism. In between 1991 and 2007 he was Associate Interim Professor at the Dept. of Fundamental Physics of the UB. He is member of the Magnetic Nanomaterials Group since its foundation in 1993. Since 2008, he is Associate Professor at Dept. of Condensed Matter Physics of the UB. His research lines have focused on theoretical and phenomenological models of magnetic materials, but always working in close contact to experimentalists in the field. His expertise has now turned to Monte Carlo and micromagnetic simulations to study finite-size, surface effects, dipolar interactions and exchange bias mainly in nanoparticle systems. His work has focused on the finite-size, surface and dipolar interactions effects in magnetic nanoparticle systems, authoring 4 book chapters on these subjects. His more recent research lines include magnetic nanotubes and magnetic hyperthermia in NP. He is author of a review (JNN 2008), with more than 290 citations, on Exchange Bias effects in NP, a field to which he has contributed in numerous collaborations with other groups of worldwide expertise. He has been visiting professor at the Universities of South Florida (USA), Perpignan (France) and Antioquia (Colombia) and he is member of the RSEF and IEEE Society. He has published around 55 articles cited more than 2700 times and has an H index of 27.

Jérôme Depeyrot

Jérôme Depeyrot is Associate Professor in Condensed Matter Physics at the Institute of Physics, University of Brasília (Brazil). He obtained his PhD in Physics from Paris Diderot University – Paris 7 (France) in 1994. After a first postgraduate experience at the University of São Paulo (Brazil) in 1989-1990, he joined the Complex Fluids Group at University of Brasilia as a Post Doc fellow in 1995. His current research involves the design, synthesis and development of advanced magnetic nanomaterials for energy, environmental, and biological applications; colloids and self assembly; their local structural studies by synchrotron and neutron studies (XRD, XAS, SAXS); the magnetization processes and magnetization dynamics of magnetic nanoparticles assemblies. He has co-authored more than 80 peer-reviewed articles which have received more than 1400 citations.

David Cabrera

Dr David Cabrera is a Research Fellow recently awarded with a prestigious Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship at Keele University, UK. Dr Cabrera pursued his PhD in Madrid under the supervision of Dr Francisco Teran. Here, Dr Cabrera worked on magnetic nanoparticle-mediated magnetic hyperthermia for cancer treatment, with especial focus on engineering novel magnetic characterisation instruments to unveil particularities in the magnetic response of nanoparticles in biological environments. After being awarded his PhD, Dr Cabrera moved to Keele University in the UK to work a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Dr Alan Harper’s group. During this term, he explored the possibility of utilising magnetic hyperthermia technologies in cardiovascular medicine for the aim of improving stroke prognosis. Currently, Dr Cabrera leads a Wellcome Trust funded project in which he strains on developing a magnetic nanoparticle-mediated therapy to provide a safer and more effective treatment for Venous Thromboembolism (VTE), a poorly treated, potentially mortal disease with high world prevalence.
Dr Cabrera’s current research interests are mainly focused in nanomagnetism applied to cardiovascular and oncological medicine. Also, Dr Cabrera shows special interest on the use of AC magnetometry and susceptometry methods for basic research on platelet biology, haematology and general diagnosis.

Gisela Schütz

Gisela Schütz born in 1955, studied physics at the TUM (Technical University of Munich) and finished her diploma with neutron experiments. After her PhD in nuclear physics at the TUM she started research activities in condensed matter investigation with synchrotron radiation at several synchrotron laboratories. She developed new methods of studying magnetic structures and phenomena with polarised x-rays and became a professor at the University of Augsburg in 1993 and received a chair at the Institute for Experimental Physics at the University of Würzburg in 1997. For her scientific work she was awarded with the Otto-Klung Price in 1989 and with the Agilent Technology Award in 2000. Since 2001 she is Director of the department “Modern Magnetic Systems” at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (formerly Max Planck Institute for Metals Research). Her research activities focus on the characterization and synthesis of modern magnetic systems and the development of new experimental methods to study magnetism on the nanometre length and picosecond time scale. Since 2003 she is Honorary Professor at University of Stuttgart.

José Rivas

José Rivas is a Professor of Physics at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. His expertise is related to the preparation and characterization of nanostructured magnetic materials. Based on the research carried out at the USC, Rivas group created a high technology-based Spin Off Company called NANOGAP. The research and entrepreneurial efforts of Prof. Rivas, his collaborators and colleagues over the years have been widely recognized. He was the founding Director (2005-14) and responsible for the implementation of the INL-International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Braga, Portugal. He is an Elected Member of the Royal Galician Academy of Sciences and received the 2018 Salvador Velayos Award, conferred by the Spanish Magnetism Club. J. Rivas is the author of a variety of book chapters, twelve patents and more than four hundred articles.

Burkard Hillebrands

Burkard Hillebrands is full professor of experimental physics at the University of Kaiserslautern. After studies at the University of Cologne and a postdoctoral stay at the Optical Sciences Center in Tucson, Arizona he was associate professor at the University of Karlsruhe in 1994. Since 1995 he is full professor at the University of Kaiserslautern. From 2006 to 2014 he was Vice President for Research, Technology and Innovation of University of Kaiserslautern. From 2016 to 2017 he served as Scientific Director of the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden.
His research field is experimental magnetism, in particular magnonics. He is particularly interested in nonlinear magnonic phenomena, magnonic crystals, magnon gases, magnon condensates and magnonic supercurrent phenomena in view of applications in novel information technologies such as magnon logics.
He currently is president of the European Magnetism Association, and Chair of the of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), Commission C9: Magnetism. He is member, Chair of the Class of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, and Vice President of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz. He is member of the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech). He is IEEE Fellow and APS. In 2005 he was Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Magnetics Society. In 2016 he received an ERC Advanced Grant of the European Commission. He served on the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Magnetics Society and was Honors&Awards Chair. Since 2018, he is Chair and Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Helmholtz Center Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), and also Member of the HZDR Supervisory Board.
He has published more than 400 refereed articles, book contributions, and several patents.

Stefano Carretta

Stefano Carretta is Full Professor of Physics of Matter at the University of Parma and he is currently member of the Scientific Council of the National Interuniversity Consortium of Materials Science and Technology (INSTM). His research activity has covered different areas of Physics of Matter, especially magnetism and quantum information processing. As a general approach, he combined a purely theoretical research, for the understanding and prediction of new physical phenomena, with the design and interpretation of experiments able to highlight such phenomena. The aim of this research was twofold: to study phenomena of interest for fundamental physics, and to design and identify systems suitable for technological applications. This type of approach led him to develop solid international collaborations with both experimental physicists and chemists.
He contributed to put forward some of the first proposals for the use of magnetic molecules as qubits and the first proposal for exploiting molecular nanomagnets as quantum simulators. He has recently shown that molecular nanomagnets can be exploited to define qubit with embedded quantum error correction. His research interests encompass also f electron bulk systems. For instance, he demonstrated the presence of quadrupolar waves in the low-frequency dynamics of UO2.
He is coauthor of about 135 research papers published in international journals.
In 2006 he has been appointed of the “Le Scienze” (the Italian version of Scientific American) medal and of the President of the Italian Republic medal for his research on molecular nanomagnets. In 2011 he has been appointed of the prestigious Olivier Kahn International Award for his contribution to the theory of molecular magnetism.

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