About me

I am currently an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow in the group of Denys Makarov at the Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, HZDR. After obtaining my PhD by the Autonomous University of Madrid at the end of 2019, I was a postdoctoral researcher and docent at the University of Oviedo (Spain). My research focuses on computational micromagnetic modelling of challenging bottlenecks in spintronic applications based on magnetic 3D nanostructures, as well as assistance in the interpretation of advanced techniques, such as synchrotron imaging (XMCD-PEEM, TXM, MFM, etc.). I have also assisted measurements at ALBA and Elletra.

My kick-off in science

My career started at the Institute of Materials Science of Madrid of the Spanish National Research Council (ICMM-CSIC) in the group of Manuel Vazquez , Agustina Asenjo, Rafael Perez del Real and Oksana Chubykalo-Fesenko. During my PhD, I visited Institute Néel (Grenoble, France) in 2016 in a collaboration with the group of Olivier Fruchart and Daria Gusakova (SPINTEC) to investigate depinning mechanisms for the racetrack memory based on modulated nanowires. In 2017 I also visited the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research -IFW (Dresden, Germany) in a collaboration with K. Nielsch to adress the experimantal challenge of contacts in cylindrical magnetic nanowires. As a postdoc during the mobility restrictions, I have also visited the group of M. Hirtz (INT) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) with a KHYS grant, and I was a guest scientist in the group of D. Makarov at Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf. In 2020 I was awarded with the IEEE Magnetics Society Educational Seed Fund for my first project as Principal Investigator.

Ground-breaking research and Open Science

During these years I have produced ground-breaking research with a significant contribution to the advancement of the nanomaterials such as, determining the conditions for stabilization of skyrmion tubes in cylindrical nanowires [Nanoscale 2018, Nanomaterials 2020]. This is of major importance for the development of spintronic and spin-based nanoelectronics applications based on topologically non-trivial spin textures. I have also determined the conditions for assuring a unidirectional propagation of the magnetization reversal in multisegmented nanowires [ACS nano 2018] and envisaged a way to prepare chiral vortex states in nanowires by means of Oersted fields and electrical current [PRB2020] required for the development of integrated devices based on nanowires with a low power consumption in line with sustainability requirements of the EU industry and society. At this stage I have been awarded with funding for my projects and guest scientist in top leading centres in EU. Few examples are posted on my website.

Global and EU policies in Horizon Europe guide research in the transition to Open Science, with special emphasis on dissemination and communication activities. Since the start of my career I have been following these directives with an online action in my profiles.

Commitment and initiative

I am a very active member in the IEEE Magnetics Society, the Spanish Club of Magnetism (CEMAG) , the Royal Society of Physics (RSEF) and the Specialized Group of Solid-State Physics of the RSEF. In the last years, I have been specially sensitive with low mobility issues among researchers since the beginning of COVID19. I have commited to initiatives which mitigate these risks. Examples of this commitment are chairing for Europe, Middle East, and Africa in the ‘2021 IEEE Around-the-world Around-the-clock International Magnetics Conference’, as well as the organization of the ‘4th and 5th Young Researchers in Magnetism’ Conference. I am also the manager of the joint YouTube channel of the Spanish Magnetism Club (CEMAG) and the Spanish chapter of IEEE Mag Soc. Right now I am in the Advisory board in the international '2022 IEEE Around-the-Clock Around-the-Globe Magnetics Conference'. Since January 2022 I am member of the Editorial Review Board of the IEEE Magnetics Letters. During my postdoc at the University of Oviedo I have also supervised one bachelor thesis in 2020/2021 and another one is in progress.

Professional Experience

Starting in 2022 April
Postdoctoral researcher. Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral fellowship

Group of Denys Makarov @ Helmholzt Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, HZDR, Dresden, Germany.

2022 February - 2022 March.
German Language Course. Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral language fellowship

Goethe Institut Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2019 - 2022.
Postdoctoral researcher and teaching. (~405 teaching hours in total)

Group of V. M. Prida @ University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain

2021 August - 2017 September.
Research stay. Granted by KHYS Connecting Young Scientists (ConYS)

Group of Michael Hirtz @ Karlsruhe Institut of Technology, KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany.

2021June - 2017 July.
Guest Scientist.

Group of Denys Makarov @ Helmholzt Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, HZDR, Dresden, Germany.

Pre-PhD

2015 - 2019
Pre-doctoral researcher. FPI Fellowship by the Spanish Ministery of Economy and Competitiviness

Group of M. Vazquez and O. Chubykalo-Fesenko @ Institute of Materials Science of Madrid, ICMM-CSIC, Spain

2017 July - 2017 October.
Research stay. Grant by Spanish Ministery of Economy and Competitiviness

Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, IMW-IFW, Dresden, Germany.

2016 April- 2016 July

Research stay. Grant by Spanish Ministery of Economy and Competitiviness

Group of O. Fruchart and D. Gusakova @ Institut Néel, CNRS, Grenoble, France + SPINTEC-CEA

2012 July - 2012 August.
MultiDark Summer student

Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain.

With M. Angeles Perez @ University of Salamanca, Spain

Education

2015- 2019.
PhD studies on Physics of Condensed Matter, Nanoscience and Biophysics. Mention of international PhD.

Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain.

FPI Fellowship of the Spanish goverment (BES-C-2014-0084).

2013 - 2014.
Master in Physics and Mathemathics. Mention of quality of the master program

University of Granada, Spain.

2009 - 2013.
Bachellor in Physics

University of Salamanca, Spain.

For further information on my career check my 2-page CV, my research and gallery

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