Invited Speakers

Nader Yaacoub received his Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics from the University of Strasbourg in 2007. He is currently Associate Professor at Le Mans University, where he has been a faculty member since 2008. His research focuses on the structural and magnetic properties of magnetic nanostructures with complex architectures, including core/shell, hollow, hard/soft, hybrid, and molecular nanomagnetic systems. He investigates the influence of surface/interface eƯects, exchange bias, spring-magnet and magnetoelastic coupling, spin disorder, and dipolar interactions on magnetic behavior. His work relies extensively on Mössbauer spectrometry and hyperfine interactions modeling to establish structure–property relationships at the nanoscale. He has developed national and international collaborations with research groups in Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America. His teaching activities cover general physics, solid-state physics, magnetism, nanophysics, surface/interface physics.

Samuele Sanna is Associate Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Bologna, Italy, where he also serves as Director of the Master Degree School in Physics. His teaching activity covers condensed matter physics, magnetism, superconductivity, and quantum technologies. His research focuses on quantum materials exhibiting magnetic, superconducting, and topological phases, particularly when strong electronic correlations, spin-orbit coupling, and quantum entanglement govern their behavior. His experimental activity relies primarily on local probe techniques, including nuclear magnetic and quadrupole resonance (NMR/NQR) and muon spin spectroscopy (μSR), which provide direct access to microscopic magnetic and electronic properties. He has published extensively in international peer-reviewed journals and maintains active collaborations with national and international research groups investigating quantum materials and emergent electronic phenomena.

Roberto Mantovan (RM) got his Ph. D in Physics in 2006 with the dissertation “Mössbauer spectroscopy investigation of materials for non-volatile memory devices”. Since 2009, he is research scientist at CNR-IMM, Unit of Agrate Brianza, and since 2016 he is associated member at CERN also serving as Committee Member of the “ISOLDE and Neutron Time-of-Flight Experiments Committee” from 2023 to 2025. Starting from 2025, RM is elected member for Italy at the “International Board on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect” (IBAME). Since 2018, RM coordinated the research activity focused on developing large-area topological insulators (TI) for spintronics. Recent highlights concern: (i) the achievement of large spin-charge interconversion at room temperature in the developed TI, fundamentally connected to their future technology transfer, and (ii) the newly discovered quantum metric effects in them. RM published >100 papers in peer-reviewed journals (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9353-4137).

Alberto Cini got his PhD in Physics at the University of Florence in 2019. Since then he is part of the “Spectroscopic Studies of Magnetic Nanomaterials” research group at the Department of Physics and Astronomy lead by Prof. Maria Fittipaldi. Its main interests are the detection of spin-electric effects by means of electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy and the characterization of nanomaterials through Mössbauer spectroscopy, including the exploitation of synchrotron light.