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Mª Pilar Marín Palacios

CATEDRÁTICA DE UNIVERSIDAD Y DIRECTORA DEL INSTITULO

Dr. Marín, Full Professor at Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) since January 2021, also serves as the Director of the Institute of Applied Magnetism (IMA) at UCM since October 2017. She holds a Ph.D. from UCM and conducted her doctoral research at the Institute of Materials Science of CSIC. With pre and postdoctoral studies at renowned institutions such as CNRS in Italy, Max-Planck Institute, IFW in Germany, and the University of Sheffield in the UK, Dr. Marín is an expert in the magnetic behavior of amorphous and nanostructured materials.

Specializing in the application of magnetic microwires (MM) for radar absorption, sensors, and security tags, Dr. Marín has made significant contributions to this field with 150 scientific publications, accumulating 2732 citations and achieving an h-index of 28. She has been a featured speaker at over thirty international conferences. With 20 patent families to her name, six actively exploited by two spin-off companies (Micromag 2000 S.L. and Innprotect LPT) for applications in radar absorbing materials and electromagnetic tags for article surveillance, Dr. Marín has demonstrated her leadership in 40 competitive national and international projects. Notably, she has served as Principal Investigator (PI) for European projects and coordinated a NATO "Science for Peace" project. Her involvement extends to technology transfer projects under article 83 of the Spanish Universities Law (LOU), including a significant agreement in 2021 with Endomag (Cambridge) for optimizing the Sentimag - Magseed product for breast cancer treatment. Additionally, Dr. Marín has held esteemed positions such as the first female president of the Spanish Magnetism Club (CEMAG) (2018-2020) and received prestigious awards like the Talgo Award for Technological Innovation (2001) and Award I “spin-off” ideas competition of the Community of Madrid in New Materials (June 2003). She was appointed a member of the board of directors of the company Las Rozas Innova in 2023.

Antonio Hernando Grande

PROFESOR EMÉRITO

Emeritus Professor of Magnetism of the Department of Materials Physics. Founder of the Institute of Applied Magnetism. He is the author of more than 300 scientific publications, with more than 15,000 quotations (H = 60). He is co-author of 17 patents; Has directed 22 doctoral theses. It has been IP of more than 40 projects with public financing and more than 60 contracts of transfer with the industry. He is Academician of the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences; Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of the Basque Country; Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Cantabria. Gold Medal of the Royal Spanish Society of Physics; Research Prize Miguel Catalán of the Community of Madrid; Fellow of the American Physical Society; Dupont Award for Science; And National Research Award “Juan de la Cierva”.

José María González Calbet

CATEDRÁTICO UNIVERSIDAD

Professor of Inorganic Chemistry of the Faculty of Chemical Sciences of the UCM. He is the author of over 450 publications with over 6400 citations (H = 49). He has directed 18 doctoral theses and is author of 4 patents. It has participated in 35 public funded projects being IP in 28 of them. He has been principal investigator in 5 contracts with companies. More than 45 contributions to conferences as guest lecturer. Prizes awarded most relevant: Novel researcher awarded by the Royal Spanish Society of Chemistry) 1985; Prize “Franco-Espagnol 2000”, granted by the “Société Française de Chimie”; Royal Spanish Society of Chemistry (Inorganic Chemistry), 2006. Director of the CAI X-Ray Diffraction of the UCM since 1996. Director of the National Electronic Microscopy Center since 2010. Manager of the National Materials Program, January 1993-December 1995.

Patricia de la Presa Muñoz-de Toro

 CATEDRÁTICA UNIVERSIDAD / SECRETARIA ACADÉMICA

Patricia de la Presa is Full Professor in the area of Condensed Matter Physics at the Complutense University of Madrid, with a strong scientific activity and a high productivity in the field of magnetic materials and their applications, specially focused on the studies of calorimetric properties of magnetic nanoparticles subjected to radiofrequency fields for different applications, such as magnetic hyperthermia, drug transport, and catalysis. She has published about 90 articles with 1800 citations (h-index=23), and participated in numerous international conferences as invited talks and she participated in 40 competitive research projects of national and international calls, being the Principal Investigator of 5 projects. Prof. de la Presa has also supervised 20 Master's theses, as well as 3 PhD students, and currently supervises 3 ongoing PhD theses. She has an excellent track record in training and mentoring overseas postdoctoral researchers supervising about 22 researchers coming from Argentina, Algeria, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Hungary, México, Nigeria and Túnez

José María Alonso Rodríguez

INVESTIGADOR  C.S.I.C

Scientist of the ICMM of the CSIC. Co-author of 90 articles of the SCI and a patent. Co-directed a thesis of two undergraduate degrees in Advanced Studies and three doctoral theses. He has participated in 20 R & D projects and advised and collaborated with different companies and participated in a Contract with ERTMS Users Group.

Elena Navarro Palma

CATEDRÁTICA DE UNIVERSIDAD

Professor in the Materials Physics Department at UCM. She obtained her PhD under supervision of Prof. Antonio Hernando in the study of magnetic properties of metastable phases in FeRh alloys. From 2000 to 2004 she investigated at IMM-CSIC on the synthesis of nanoparticles and thin films deposited by sputtering and the modulation of its magnetics interactions by capping materials. From 2005 to 2017 her research was focused on superconducting-magnetic proximity effect at UCM. Also, in this period she worked at ICMM-CSIC in the deposition of magnetic nanoparticles and core-shell nanoparticles by gas-phase-aggregation source. She is author of 75 scientific publications with more than 1000 quotations (h=17) and she has participated on more than 30 projects with public financing. Her current interest at IMA involves different research lines: Graphene large scale production by Ball-Milling, the search of new Permanent Magnets in the form on Soft-Hard Composites; the synthesis of Ferromagnetic Carbides Nanoparticles in Carbon matrix; and the Microwave Scattering by Amorphous Ferromagnetic Microwires.

César González Pascual

PROFESOR CONTRATADO DOCTOR

Associate Professor in the Condensed Matter area in the Materials Physics Department of the Complutense University of Madrid. He is leading researcher in theoretical simulations based on the Density Functional Theory applied to the study of the electro-chemical properties of a great variety of materials. He has published around 80 articles in peer-review journals, obtaining more than 1600 citations on the Scopus database (h-index=23).  He has presented his work in more than 40 talks in international congresses, meetings, or institutions (ten invited talks). He has participated in more than 20 national or international projects, being the principal researcher in several computational projects. He had co-supervised different Final Year Degree Project and Master Thesis as well as one postdoctoral fellow. At this moment, he is supervising two PdD students.

Daniel Matatagui Cruz

INVESTIGADOR RAMÓN Y CAJAL

Ramón y Cajal researcher. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in physics in 2012 from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. From 2008–2013 he was working in the GRIDSEN group at the CSIC (Spain) on I + D + i of biochemical microsensors and electronic noses for environmental protection. He was a Research Professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), in the Biomedical Devices Group at the Instituto de Ciencias Aplicadas y Tecnología (ICAT) on the development of chemical sensors and biosensors. Currently, he is working in Instituto de Magnetismo Aplicado at the UCM developing new sensor technologies.  He has directed 6 Master Thesis, 10 Final Year Projects, 1 Doctoral Thesis, and 2 in process. He has published more than 38 JCR articles (80% in Q1, two of which have been selected as an issue cover, with H-Index 18 and a total cites 857-Scopus). Two patents have been granted. He has taken part in more than 60 communications (6 invited and 3 plenary conferences), as an organizer of various conferences, as a Reviewer in more than 10 journals, and as a Guest Editor for special numbers of Journal of Sensors, Sensors, and Nanomaterials.

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