Team

Victor Lopez is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Advanced Materials and the Physics Department of the University Jaume I of Castellon. He joined the university through a CIDEGENT grant to establish and direct the Spintronics for Advance Devices LAB, SPINAD. Prior to his current position, he worked as a postdoc in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (2017-2023) in the Physical Electronics Research Lab directed by Professor Pedram Khalili. During his stay at Northwestern, Victor worked on Spintronic Devices for memory and computing technologies, with particular emphasis in antiferromagnetic spintronics and their fundamental transport porperties. He has published around 30 papers in peer-reviewed journals and has served as referee of multiple high-impact journals. Victor has participated in numerous congress and workshops, including invited talks on magnetic materials and spintronics. 

Victor obtained his B.S.c in 2009 at the University of Barcelona, and obtained his master (2010) and PhD (2014) in Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies. After completing his PhD, he joined the Insitute of Applied Magnetism at the Complutense University of Madrid as a postdoctoral researcher working on soft magnetic materials and microwave applications. 

His current research interests are focused on magnetic materials and spintronic devices, in special with new novel materials and structures that can offer new functionalities in electronic circuits and computing systems.

Soufiane BARHOUMI received his Bachelor of Science (BSc) in 2020 from Chouaib Doukkali University and his Master degree of Science and Techniques (MSc) in Engineering and Physics of Advanced Materials in 2022 from the Faculty of Sciences and Techniques, University of Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco. He carried out his Master's thesis under the supervision of Prof. Mounir El Achaby, MSN lab, UM6P Ben Guerir, on Magnetic nanocomposite Materials. He joined the Institute of Advanced Materials, Universität Jaume I in May 2024. He is currently working on Antiferromagnetic material for spintronics devices.