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Academic Formation

• 2011 – 2015 Ph.D. in Physics
  Instituto Balseiro/Universidad Nacional de Cuyo – Argentina.
  Thesis: Transporte eléctrico y magnetismo en sistemas electrodo-aislante-electrodo: Hacia el desarrollo de dispositivos del tipo juntura túnel. (Electronic transport and magnetism of electrode-barrier-electrode: To the development tunnel junctions like-devices)
  Advisor: PhD. Martin Sirena

• 2005 – 2010 Licenciatura en Física (Bachelor in Physics)
  Sciences Faculty, Engineering National University – Lima, Perú.
  Thesis: Implementación de un Magnetómetro de Muestra Vibrante para la Caracterización de Materiales Magnéticos (Implementation of a Vibrating Sample Magnetometer for the characterization of magnetic materials).
  Advisor: Dr. Abel Gutarra

Postdocs

• 2018 – 2020
  SPINTEC – CEA, Grenoble, France
  FET-OPEN European project SPICE Spintronic photonic integrated circuit platform for novel electronics
  Advisors: Ioan Lucian Prejbeanu, Ricardo Sousa and Bernard Dieny

• 2016 – 2018
  Magnetic Resonance Laboratory - Centro Atómico Bariloche, Bariloche, Argentina
  Argentinian project: Bidimensional magnetic nanostructures
  Advisors: Javier E. Gómez and Alejandro Butera

Conferences

• Invited talks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1. Webinar Series of Spintronic, India. 21st October 2021 All-optical switching in FeCoB/Ta/[Tb/Co]N electrodes, organized by the National Institute of Science Education and Research - NISER, India.
2. INTERMAG2020 Montreal, Canada. May 4th – 8th 2020 Integration of single-shot all-optical switching Tb/Co multilayer-based electrodes within magnetic tunnel junctions L. Avilés Félix, A. Olivier, G. Li, C. Davies, L. Alvaro-Gomez, M. Rubio Roy, S. Auffret, A. Kirilyuk, A.V. Kimel, T. Rasing, B. Dieny, R. Sousa and I.L. Prejbeanu (Cancelled for Covid-19)

• Contributed talks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Last 10 years As expositor: 11

1. VII Congreso Argentino de Microscopía-SAMIC 2022, June 8-10th, 2022 "Grafeno sintetizado directamente sobre SiO2/Si mediante depósito químico de vapor" C. S. Nobile, L. Avilés-Félix, L. N. Serkovic-Loli
2. INTERMAG 2021 Lyon, France, 26-30 April 2021 Unraveling Relaxation Mechanisms in Ultra-low Damping Fe80Co20 Thin Films. D. Velázquez Rodriguez, J. Gómez, G. Alejandro, L. Avilés-Félix, M. van Landeghem, E. Goovaerts and A. Butera
3. AIM2021 IEEE Advances in Magnetics 2020-21, June 13-16 "All-optical switching in FeCoB/Ta/[Tb/Co]N electrodes for the development of ultrafast magnetic tunnel junctions" L. Avilés-Félix, A. Olivier, G. Li, C. Davies, L. Álvaro-Gómez, M. Rubio-Roy, S. Auffret, A. Kirilyuk, Th. Rasing, L. Buda-Prejbeanu, R. Sousa, B. Dieny and I. L. Prejbeanu
4. XIX Peruvian Meeting of Physics, Lima Peru September 24th–26th 2020. “Manipulation of spin currents in synthetic antiferromagnets” L. Avilés-Félix, A. Butera, J. E. Gómez.
5. SPIE – Optics and Photonics 2020 San Diego USA 23-27 August 2020 “Integration platform for optical switching of magnetic elements” Elzbieta K. Sobolewska, Hanna Becker, Johan Pelloux-Prayer, L. Avilés-Félix, Aurélien Olivier, Clemens J. Krückel, Carl S. Davies, Guanqiao Li, Andrei I. Kiriliouk, Dries Van Thourhout, Ricardo Sousa, Ioan-Lucian Prejbeanu, Theo Rasing, Farshad Moradi, Martijn J. R. Heck.
6. 64th Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials MMM2019 Las Vegas USA. 4th – 8th November 2019. “Pure spin current manipulation in antiferromagnetically exchange coupled heterostructures” L. Avilés-Félix, A. Butera, D. González-Chávez, R. L. Sommer, J. E. Gómez.
7. 64th Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials MMM2019 Las Vegas USA. 4th – 8th November 2019. “Integration of Tb/Co multilayers within ultrafast optically switchable p-MTJ”. L. Avilés-Félix, C. Davies, G. Li, L. Álvaro-Gómez, M. Rubio-Roy, S. Auffret, A. Kirilyuk, T. Rasing, L. Buda-Prejbeanu, B. Dieny, R. Sousa and I. L. Prejbeanu.
8. XXIII Latin American Symposium of Solid State Physics. Bariloche - Argentina. April 10 – 13th 2018. “Synthetic antiferromagnet as a pure spin injector” L. Avilés-Félix, Gómez J. E., Leiva L. and Butera A.
9. XXVI Simposio Peruano de Física Huacho Perú. November 13-17th 2017 (Peruvian Physics Meeting) “Rare–earth ores concentration using magnetic separation.” J. Rocca, E. Monteblanco, L. Avilés-Félix, Abel Gutarra
10. VII Solids National Meeting, November 4th – 9th, Bahía Blanca, Argentina. “Inverse spin Hall effect in synthetic antiferromagnetic heterostructures [Co/Ru/Co]/Pt”. L. Avilés-Félix, Javier Gómez, Livio Leiva and Alejandro Butera.
11. I LatinAmerican Conference on Superconductivity and Magnetism. 24th – 28th October 2016, Lima, Perú. “Design and implementation of a Vibrating Sample Magnetometer” Daniel Jordán, Diego González, Misael León, Kevin Alvarado, Dámaso Laura, Nahuel Monteblanco, L. Avilés-Félix and Abel Gutarra.
12. International Conference on Magnetism 2015, ICM2015, Barcelona, España, July 5th – 10th, 2015. “Roughness influence in the barrier quality of ferroelectric/ferromagnetic tunnel junctions, model and experiments”, Martin Sirena, L. Avilés-Félix, Jesús Gonzalez, Laura Steren.
13. XIII Encontro de Sociedade Brasileira de Pesquisa em Materiais, João Pessoa, Brasil, September 28th – October 2nd, 2014. Infuence of experimental conditions on obtention of SPION by polyol method”. Jaime Vega Chacon, L. Avilés-Félix, Gino Picasso Escobar, Miguel Jafelicci Júnior.
14. Conference of the Condensed Matter Division of the EPS, CMD25, Paris, August 24th – 29th, 2014. “Transport properties of ultra-thin oxide layers for the development of tunnel junctions like devices”. M. Sirena, L. Avilés-Félix, J. G. Sutter, H. Navarro, S. Carreira, N. Haberkorn, L. B. Steren.
15. XIV Encuentro de Superficies y Materiales Nanoestructurados, Nano 2014, Bariloche May 14th – 16th, 2014, “Transport in nanostructured systems”, L. Avilés-Félix, F. Baldis, J. G. Sutter, M. Sirena, S. Carreira, L. B. Steren, N. Haberkorn, F. Soldera. (Invited talk)
16. X Latin American Workshop of Magnetism, Magnetic Materials and Their Applications (LAW3M 2013). Buenos Aires, Argentina. April 8th – 12th, 2013. “Substrate influence in the barrier quality of multiferroic tunnel junctions, model and experiments”, M. Sirena, L. Avilés-Félix, L. Steren, R. Bernard, J. Briático, N. Bergeal and J. Lesueur.
17. Joint European Magnetic Symposia 2012, Parma, Italy, September 9th -14th. “Roughness influence in the barrier quality of ferroelectric/ferromagnetic tunnel junctions, model and experiments”, M. Sirena, L. Avilés-Félix, L. B. Steren, R. Bernard, J. Briático, N. Bergeal, J. Lesueur and G. Faini.
18. XI International Conference on Nanostructured Materials, Rhodes, Greece, August 26th – 31th. “Structural and electrical characterization of ultra thin SrTiO3 tunnel barriers grown over YBa2Cu3O7 electrodes for the development of high Tc Josephson Junctions” M. Sirena, L. Avilés-Félix, L. A. Agüero, J. González, S. Pons Vargas, L. B. Steren, R. Bernard, J. Briático, N. Bergeal, J. Lesueur and G. Faini.
19. XI International Conference on Nanostructured Materials, Rhodes, Greece, August 26th – 31th. “Roughness influence in the barrier quality of ferroelectric/ferromagnetic tunnel junctions, model and experiments”, M. Sirena, L. Avilés-Félix.
20. INTERMAG 2012, Vancouver, Canada May 7th - 11th. “Growth and characterization of ferromagnetic/ferroelectric multilayers for tunnel junctions”, Steren, Laura; L. Avilés-Félix; Alejandro, Gabriela; Carreira, Santiago; Kaul, Enrique; Sirena, Martin.

Teaching and academic experience

• Academic position: Teaching assistant. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo and Instituto Balseiro – Argentina.
  Experimental Physics, 2022 -
  Introduction to Solid State Physics, 2021 (Ad-honorem)
  Introduction to Solid State Physics, 2017 – 2018
  Quantum Mechanics II, 2014 – 2016

• Teaching assistant position. Course: Intermediate Physics Laboratory. Physical Engineering Department – Sciences Faculty.
  Engineering National University, Lima, Peru. August - September 2010

• Teaching assistant position. Course: Solid State Physics (Degree course). Physics Department – Sciences Faculty.
  Engineering National University, Lima, Peru. March - June 2010.

• Teaching assistant position. Course: Intermediate Physics Laboratory (Degree course). Physics Department – Sciences Faculty.
  Engineering National University, Lima, Peru. March - June 2009.

Scholarships and awards

• Fulbright CONICET Scholarship. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Fulbright Conicet 2021-2022 scholarship for a research internship at the Illinois Materials Research Science and Engineering Center I-MRSEC under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Axel Hoffmann

• From Concytec – Perú. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Qualified as Researcher at the National Council of Science Technology and Technological Innovation - CONCYTEC of Peru. RegistroNacional Científico, Tecnológico Y De Innovación Tecnológica. Register number: P0004374 Period: 11/02/2022 - Investigador Categoría III

Qualified as Researcher at the National Council of Science Technology and Technological Innovation - CONCYTEC of Peru. Register number: 8804 Period: 30/01/2019 - 30/01/2020 – Investigador Categoría Carlos Monge Medrano III

Qualified as Researcher at the National Council of Science Technology and Technological Innovation - CONCYTEC of Peru. Register number: 8804 Period: 21/12/2016 - 21/12/2018

• From Conicet – Argentina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Postdoctoral scholarship from CONICET (National Council of Scientific and Technical Research) Argentina (2016-2018)

Doctoral scholarship from CONICET (National Council of Scientific and Technical Research) for LatinAmerican countries, Instituto Balseiro, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. (2011-2016).