Partners
Dr. Paolo Perna
Host institution
IMDEA Nanociencia (Spain)
Role
Coordinator of the Nanomagnetism area and head of the SpinOrbitronics Group at IMDEA Nanociencia. Full Professor of Theoretical Physics of Matter (2019) and as Experimental Physics of Matter (2020).
Short bio
He has participated in 32 R&D national and EU projects, 14 as PI and 1 as coordinator. h-index 24, > 55 publications, 4 book chapters, 2 patents, >2000 citations. He has tutored and supervised 13 PhD and 3 Master thesis students (in Spain, Italy and France).
Dr. Lucas Pérez
Host institution
UCM/IMDEA Nanociencia (Spain)
Role
Full Professor at UCM and Associated Researcher at IMDEA.
Short bio
He has supervised 10 PhD students and 17 MSc students, and he is currently supervising 6 PhD students and 2 postdocs and leading 2 national research projects. He has chaired several summer schools (e.g., European School on Magnetism 2023 with >100 participants). h-index of 23, 73 publications with over 2000 citations and three patents.
Prof. Isabel Rodriguez
Host institution
IMDEA Nanociencia (Spain)
Role
Senior Research Professor at IMDEA since 2013 and Director of the Nanostructured Functional Surfaces Lab, (NFS-IMDEA).
Short bio
h-Index 31, >65 publications with over 2000 citations, a book chapter, numerous conferences, and over 18 technology disclosures with 5 patents granted. She has supervised/is supervising 12 PhD students and 6 postdocs. She is lecturer in the NANOLITO summer school. She has been PI in the FET-OPEN Project EVONANO Ref: 800983 (2018-2022) and National REGINNA and NanoSCell projects.
Dr. M. Teresa González
Host institution
IMDEA Nanociencia (Spain)
Role
Head of the Neural Interfaces Lab at IMDEA since 2016.
Short bio
She has supervised/is supervising 5 PhD students and has participated in several summer schools. She was co-coordinator of the FET-OPEN project ByAxon (GA737116). h-Index 24, 57 publications with over 1400 citations, and two patents. She is currently co-leading the National projects REGINNA and NanoScell.
Dr. Laurence Méchin
Host institution
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS-GREYC, France)
Role
CNRS senior researcher and Head of Electronics Research Group at CNRS-GREYC, leading the CNRS-GREYC team in the FET-OPEN ByAxon.
Short bio
She has actively participated in an International Training Network on Nitrides materials funded by the European Community (Rainbow, 2008-2012), and has experience as WP leader in 2 national French ANR research projects on the next generation of High Electron Mobility Transistors (LHOM, 2014-2017) and on LSMO bolometers for THz applications (BOLOTERA, 2021-2024). With a h- index 22, 128 publications (ResearcherID: B-6088-2008). Dr. Méchin has supervised 8 PhD theses and is currently supervising 1 PhD.
Dr. Claude Fermon
Host institution
Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives. Centre de Recherche CEA Paris-Saclay (France)
Role
Research Director at Service de Physique de l’Etat Condensé, (CEA) in Saclay, France.
Short bio
He has coordinated several European projects and has published >140 papers, edited a book on spin electronics and filed 35 patents. He has received 3 prices of the French academy of science and has supervised or co-supervised 24 PhD students.
Prof. Myriam Pannettier Lecoeur
Host institution
Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives. Centre de Recherche CEA Paris-Saclay (France)
Role
Research Director at the Service de Physique de l’Etat Condensé at CEA and deputy head of SPEC (Condensed Matter Physics) since 2018.
Short bio
She was awarded the Aymé Poirson Prize from French Academy of Science in 2008 and with a James Zimmerman Prize IFMBE in 2014. She has supervised or co-supervised 10 PhD students.
Prof. Yael Hanein
Host institution
Tel Aviv University (TAU, Israel)
Role
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Chair of Convergent Engineering at Tel Aviv University, and CTO and founder of X-trodes.
Short bio
She managed several major grants including an ERC CoG, and 3 personal grants from the Israel Science Foundation. She received a new ERC advanced grant to study non-invasive neuro-stimulation approaches. She has co-authored 90 scientific articles with 5514 citations (h-index: 41, Google Scholar). She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Neural Engineering, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Neural Technology and Journal of Neural Engineering. She has supervised/is supervising >30 post-docs, PhD students and master students.
Dr. Arno Aarts
Host institution
Atlas Neuroengineering (Belgium)
Role
CEO of ATLAS, a world-leader SME in the field of high-density rigid and flexible neural probes for the preclinical market. Dissemination and exploitation coordinator of the EU NeuroSeeker and DEEPER projects, he organised an entrepreneurial course at the ITN – Int2PrimateBrains project.
Short bio
Aarts has supervised 2 PhD students, has 45 publications, including Nature Protocols with a total of 883 citations (h-index of 17, Google Scholar).
Prof. Laura Ballerini
Host institution
Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati di Trieste (SISSA, Italy)
Role
Professor of Physiology at SISSA. Leads the Neuron Physiology and Technology laboratory.
Short bio
She has successfully coordinated EU, extra EU HFSP and national (FIRB and MIUR) projects. She has 118 publications, including Nature Nanotechnology, PNAS, and has 9804 citations (h-index of 41, Scopus). She has supervised >20 PhD students and contributed to the early careers of >10 excellent young researchers.
Prof. Marta P. Pereira
Host institution
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM, Spain)
Role
Assistant Professor at UAM and PI of the“Biology of human neural stem cells potential for cell and gene therapy in neurodegeneration” group at the Center of Molecular Biology Severo Ochoa (CBMSO).
Short bio
She has experience as WP leader in competitive grants (e.g. H2020-ITN) and supervising researchers, with 4 PhD graduates and currently advisor of 3 PhD candidates. She has 24 publications with a total of 1823 citations and an h-index of 14. Currently, Dr. Pereira is PI of two grants (Spanish national funding, AEI ref. PID2020-118189RB-I00 and H2020 Pathfinder grant GA 101047177).
Dr. Miguel Valencia
Host institution
Center for Applied Medical Research (CIMA, Spain)
Role
Research Scientist at the Center for Applied Medical Research and Associate Professor at the School of Medicine, University of Navarra.
Short bio
He has participated in 13 national projects (7 as PI), 7 regional (6 as PI) and 2 European, 2 projects with private foundations (1 as PI), 6 research contracts with the industry/private sector (6 as IP) and 1 innovation (educational) project (PI). He teaches in 3 UNAV Masters and 1 at the University Pablo de Olavide (Sevilla). He has more than 80 publications, h-index 29 with over 3,000 citations (Scopus). He has supervised 5 PhD thesis, 4 more in progress, 14 MSc projects, 9 Degree projects and 9 experiences for initiation to research.
Dr. Timo Van Kerkoerle
Host institution
Donders Center for Neuroscience, department of Neurophysics, Radboud University Nijmegen (RU, The Netherlands)
Role
PI at RU, he developed and optimised a number of neurotechnologies in macaque monkeys.
Short bio
PI on a number of grants that funded the Deep Imaging Platform in NeuroSpin, and young scientist grant from the French National funding agency (€400k) and an ERC StG (€1.5M). He has published about 20 papers with an h-index of 10, and about 1500 citations (Google Scholar). He has supervised 3 PhD students and more than 10 MSc students.
Prof. Francesco P. Battaglia
Host institution
Donders Center for Neuroscience, department of Neurophysics, Radboud University Nijmegen (RU, The Netherlands)
Role
Professor of Neuronal Networks of Memory at RU. Part of 2 FET-FP7 projects, and coordinator a H2020 ITN “M-GATE”. He is the recipient of an ERC Advanced Grant. He coordinates the Dutch Brain Interface Initiative (22MEUR).
Short bio
He has supervised 14 PhD students, and 40+ Master students. He teaches at the BSc and MSc level and is a frequent invited lecturer at international summer school. He is the author of 57 publications with >10000 citations (Google Scholar).
Prof. Gaute Einevoll
Host institution
University of Oslo / Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UiO/NMBU, Norway)
Role
Co-leader of the Norwegian node of the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility and partner in the EU Human Brain Project since its start in 2013.
Short bio
Author of over 130 scientific publications, with more than 11,000 citations, an h-index of 53 (Google Scholar). Co-author of two monographs: Principles of Computational Modelling in Neuroscience, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, 2023), Electric Brain Signals (Cambridge, 2024). He has supervised 33 PhD student and 53 Master’s students at UiO and NMBU. He is an active science communicator, has written two popular science books and is producing two podcasts.
Prof. Martin Himly
Host institution
Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg (Austria)
Role
Assoc. Univ.-Prof. PI of the Bio-Nano Group, involved in the FP7 projects NanoTOES (ITN), NanoValid, NanoEIS, and HUMUNITY (EID) and H2020 projects PANDORA (ETN), EC4SafeNano, NanoRIGO, leading the education WP of NanoCommons and HEU PINK.
Short bio
He has supervised 12 PhD & 16 MSc students, holds 7 patents. h-index of 39, >130 publications.
Dr. Michael Ortner
Host institution
Silicon Austria Labs. Campus of the University of Technology in Graz (Austria)
Role
Head of the research unit Magnetic Microsystem Technologies.
Short bio
He has supervised 2 PhD students at Carinthian Tech Research, with >50 publications and conferences, and several patents. He has coordinated more than 15 funded research collaborations with industrial partners.
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