Magnetic Coupling in Nanostructured Materials

Dr. V. Besse

Institut des Molécules et Matériaux du Mans CNRS 6283, Le Mans Université , Le Mans, France

Phonon-Magnon Interaction in Ferromagnetic Thin Film

I did my PhD in nonlinear optics in the Laboratoire de Photonique d’Angers of Angers’ University under the supervision of Prof. Georges BOUDEBS and Prof. Hervé LEBLOND. In 2015, after I graduated, I worked as associate researcher in Prof. Curtis R. Menyuk’s team at UMBC (USA) for one year on eigenvalues communication system. Then I join the NOVA team of IMMM, Le Mans University. I start to work with Dr. Vasily Temnov on the excitation of exchange magnons by acoustic pulses.

Dr. F. Casoli

Institute of Materials for Electronics and Magnetism, National Research Council (IMEM – CNR), Parma, Italy

Exchange-coupled bilayers and nanocomposites based on L1₀-FePt

Francesca Casoli is a research scientist at IMEM – CNR. She obtained her PhD in Physics in 2005, investigating magnetic thin films and multilayers with perpendicular anisotropy and exchange-spring properties. Her research is currently focused on magnetic thin films, nanostructures and nanocomposites with new functionalities for data storage, sensors/actuators and biomedicine.

Prof. J. A. De Toro

Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha,Ciudad Real, Spain

Remanence Plots as a Probe of Spin Disorder in Magnetic Nanoparticles

Jose A. De Toro (orcid.org/0000-0002-9075-1697) is an associate professor at Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (Spain). He was a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Liverpool (2004) and Visiting Professor at the University of Cagliari (2016). His research focuses on intra- and inter-particle magnetic interactions in (core-shell) nanoparticles, particularly in dense ensembles. He is the chairman of a symposium on critical raw materials in the forthcoming E-MRS Spring Meeting.

Dr. D. Fiorani

Institute of Structure of Matter (ISM), CNR (Italy); Center of Nanomaterials Research (CNR-IKBFU), IKBFU, Kaliningard (Russia)

Magnetic properties of Co and Fe nanoparticles embedded in Mn matrix

D. Fiorani has published more than 250 papers in refereed journals. His scientific interests are mainly on disordered magnetic materials, magnetic nanoparticles and magnetorecording media. He was Director of the Institute of Structure of Matter (CNR) and President of the Italian Magnetism Association. He is President of the Joint European Magnetic Symposia (JEMS) and of the European Magnetism Association (EMA). He is Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Prof. Josep Fontcuberta

Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, IMAB-CSIC, Bellaterra, Spain

Spin diffusion and proximity effects in metal/ferromagnetic-insulator bilayer

Josep Fontcuberta received the Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Barcelona in 1982. He was postdoctoral researcher at the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory at Oxford University and later was appointed assistant professor at the Physics Faculty of the University of Barcelona. In 1991 he moved to the Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), where he is currently, leading the Multifunctional Thin Films and Complex Structures Group. Pep is co-author of over 400 scientific papers. He is editor of Sol. Stat. Comm. and Advisor of Adv. Elect. Mat. and J. of Mag. and Mag. Mat.

Dr. F. Gomes da Silva

Laboratório 3NANO, Universidade de Brasília, Brasilia, Brasil

Exchange bias properties in core-shell ferrite nanoparticles

Post Doc fellow at 3NANO group from Universidade de Brasília since 2014. PhD in physics in 2013 from Univerté Pierre et Marie Curie and Universidade de Brasília.

Prof. O. Iglesias

Dpt. Condensed Matter Physics and IN²UB, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Effects of shape and spatial arrangement of nanoparticle assemblies on their hyperthermia performance

O.I. is Associate Profesor of Cond. Matter Physics at the University of Barcelona. He graduated in theoretical physics at the UB in 1990, where he obtained his Ph.D. in Physics in 2002, after stays in City Univ.of NY and UBC Vancouver. He has been invited visiting professor at Univ. Antioquia (Colombia) and Univ. South Florida. His research lines have focused on phenomenological and theoretical models of magnetic nanomaterials. He has published around 50 articles with 1900 citations and has recently been General Chair of the HMM 2017 Conference.

Prof. H. Kachkachi

Laboratoire PROMES CNRS (UPR-8521) & Université de Perpignan, Perpignan, France

Analytical studies of interacting arrays of magnetic nano-elements

Prof. A. Lascialfari

INSTM and Dipartimento di Fisica – Università degli studi di Milano, Milano, Italy

Effect of nanoparticles hollow/full spin topology on the local hyperfine interactions and spin dynamics

Alessandro Lascialfari is full professor at the University of Milano. He teaches to MD and PhD students in Physics and Pharmacy of the University of Milano and Pavia. He coauthored more than 190 papers and in research used NMR, MuSR, SQUID, calorimetry, MRI, AFM, Magnetic Hyperthermia techniques. He has obtained important results in the study of magnetic properties and spin dynamics of HTSC superconductors, nanosized and low dimensional magnetic systems.

Dr. D. Makarov

Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V., Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research, Dresden, Germany

Magnetic coupling effects in curvilinear nanomagnets

Denys Makarov is head of the research group “Intelligent materials and devices” at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany. His work is influential for the topic of magnetism in curved geometries and opened up new research field of spintronics on flexible, bendable and stretchable surfaces. These activities are supported by major projects, such as ERC, ERC-PoC and EU FET Grants.

Dr. R. Mathieu

Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Magnetic interaction in nanoparticle systems

Ph.D. in Solid State Physics, Uppsala University, Sweden 2002; Postdoctor ERATO Spin SuperStructure project, JST, Japan 2002-2006; Assist. Prof. KTH Stockholm and Uppsala University 2006; Senior lecturer/Assoc. Prof. Uppsala University 2011. Research interests: Experimental magnetism; functional transition metal oxides, magnetic nanoparticles, spin glasses.

Dr. J. Nogués

Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) and ICREA, Bellaterra, Spain

Antiferromagnetic coupling in ferrimagnetic hard-soft core/shell nanoparticles and possible biomedical applications

Since 2006 Dr. Nogues is the group leader of the Magnetic Nanostructures Group at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2). Dr. Nogués has published 229 articles, which have been cited more than 14500 times (with an h-index of 53) and he currently holds 3 patents. Dr. Nogués is Fellow of the American Physical Society and he is Associated Editor of IEEE Magnetics Letters.

Prof. K. O'Grady

Department of Physics, University of York, Heslington, York, UK

Interface effects on coercivity in training and exchange bias systems

Kevin O’Grady was educated in the University of Wales in Bangor studying for a BSc and PhD in Physics. His research interests were in recording media. Moving to York in 2000 his research interests focussed on exchange bias structures. He has written over 300 refereed works. Kevin O’Grady is a Fellow of the IEEE and he was President of the Magnetics Society from 2004 to 2006. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the Society in 2010 speaking on the subject of exchange bias

Dr. F. Pineider

Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Magnets and plasmons - A story of love and hate

Francesco Pineider received his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Florence in 2009 with a thesis on self-organization of molecular nanomagnets on antani surfaces. Soon after, he started studying the interaction between plasmons and magnetic materials –magnetoplasmonics– between the University of Florence and the University of Padova. He is currently Researcher at the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry of the University of Pisa.

Dr. C. Rinaldi

Department of Physics and IFN-CNR, Politecnico di Milano,Milano, Italy

The reversible spin texture of ferroelectric GeTe for a tunable source of spin currents

C. Rinaldi is a researcher at Politecnico di Milano, where he received the PhD in Physics in 2013. He has been visiting researcher at the Institute of Physics of Czech Academy of Science. His activity focuses on the electric control of spin phenomena in spintronic devices based on semiconductors, (anti-)ferromagnets, functional oxides and their combinations. He has about 30 scientific articles.

Dr. V. Russier

CNRS , Thiais, France

Magnetic nanoparticles supracrsystals : ferromagnetic and spin glass states from Monte Carlo simulations

V. Russier is researcher at the CNRS. After having been involved in the modelling of liquids at interfaces in the framework of statistical mechanics applied to electrochemistry, he has been working on theoretical models and numerical simulations of metallic and /or magnetic nanoparticles.

Dr. V. M. Socoliuc

Romanian Academy – Timisoara Branch, Timisoara, Romania

The influence of magnetic dipole-dipole interactions on magnetically induced optical anisotropy in ferrofluids

Dr. Socoliuc, West University of Timisoara graduate, is expert in the investigation of the magnetically induced structuring and its influence on optic, magnetic and rheological properties of ferrofluids, as well as in materials science, engineering and biomedical applications of ferrofluids and magnetic nanoparticles.

Dr. K. Trohidou

NCSR-Demokritos, Athens, Greece

Mesoscopic modeling of dense assemblies of ferrimagnetic nanoparticles with core/surface morphology

Dr K. 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. Her current scientific interests include systems of magnetic nanoparticles, thin films and magnetic semiconductors. She is author of over 100 scientific articles in referred scientific journals, 7 chapters in books and editor of a book. She has been member of the organising and scientific committees for over 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.