PERMANENT STAFF

Mª Pilar Marín Palacios

DIRECTOR

Director of Institute of Applied Magnetism since October 2017. Professor of the Condensed Area at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid since 2021. She is the author of over 120 scientific publications, 20 patents and director of 4 doctoral theses. Their publications have 2071 citations with H = 24 index. She has participated in 40 projects of competitive research of national and international calls being Principal Investigator of European projects, INNPACTO, AVANZA, of the Community of Madrid, Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and NATO. She has participated as a principal investigator in numerous projects with companies. II Talgo Award for Technological Innovation (2001) and Prize I Ideas Contest “Spin-off” of the Community of Madrid (June 2003). I Technology and Knowledge Transfer Award. Technical director of the start-up and creation of the technology-based company Micromag 2000, S.L.​

Patricia de la Presa Muñoz-de Toro

FULL PROFESSOR / ACADEMIC SECRETARY

Patricia de la Presa is Professor in the area of Condensed Matter Physics at the Complutense University of Madrid, specially focused on the studies of calorimetric properties of magnetic nanoparticles subjected to radiofrequency fields, and Academic Secretary of the Institute of Applied Magnetism. She has published about 70 articles with 1100 citations (h-index=19), and participated in numerous international conferences as invited talks. She has an excellent track record in training and mentoring overseas postdoctoral researchers; she has also supervised 15 Master’s thesis, as well as 2 Ph.D. students, and currently 3 ongoing Ph.D. theses. She participated in 20 competitive research projects of national and international calls, being the Principal Investigator of 3 projects. At present, she participates in the “RADIOMAG ACTION COST, an international network for hyperthermia cancer treatment conformed by 26 European groups. In the last few years she established collaborations with industry and was responsible for a contract with the public company CEDEX with a budget of 300 k€. In addition, she is reviewer of research projects in Argentina, Colombia, Spain, Belgium and Switzerland, and regular referee for research articles in prestigious scientific journals.

José María Alonso Rodríguez

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHER  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

FULL PROFESSOR

Full Professor in the Materials Physics Department at UCM and currently a researcher member of IMA. 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 60 scientific publications with 750 quotations (h=15) and she has participated on more than 25 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 fabrication and characterization of Ferromagnetic Carbides nanostructured based on Mn and the Microwave scattering by Amorphous Ferromagnetic Microwires.

César González Pascual

ASSOCIATED PROFESSOR

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.

EMERITUS PROFESSORS

Antonio Hernando Grande

Emeritus Professor of Magnetism in the Department of Materials Physics and founder of the Institute of Applied Magnetism. He is the author of more than 300 scientific publications, with over 15,000 citations (h-index 60), and co-inventor of 17 patents. He has supervised 22 doctoral theses and has been principal investigator of more than 40 publicly funded projects and more than 60 technology transfer contracts with industry. He is a member of the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences, holds honorary doctorates from the University of the Basque Country and the University of Cantabria, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. His awards include the Gold Medal of the Royal Spanish Society of Physics, the Miguel Catalán Research Prize of the Community of Madrid, the DuPont Science Prize and the Juan de la Cierva National Research Prize.

Manuel Vázquez Villalabeitia

Emeritus Professor with over 30 years of expertise in the magnetism of nanostructures, particularly magnetic micro- and nanowires. PhD from UCM (1980) and postdoc at the MPI Stuttgart and the Technical University of Denmark, he was Head of Laboratory at the IMA (1992–2000) and founded the Group on Nanomagnetism and Magnetization Processes at ICMM-CSIC, where he is Ad Honorem Professor. He has supervised 37 PhD theses, co-authored over 700 publications (h=68), edited the Elsevier book “Magnetic Nano and Microwires” and co-invented 25 patents. He founded the Spain Chapter of the IEEE Magnetics Society (2007) and was President of the Society (2017–2018). Salvador Velayos Award (2016) and IEEE Fellow.

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