Partners
Host institutions
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).
Numbers
He has participated in 32 R&D national and EU projects, 14 as P. 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).
Keywords
Science, nanosciencia, IMDEA Nanociencia, theorical physics, nanomagentism.
Dr Lucas Pérez
Host institution
UCM/IMDEA Nanociencia (Spain)
Role
Full Professor at UCM and Associated Researcher at IMDEA.
Numbers
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).Index of 23, 73 publications with over 2000 citations and three patents.
Keywords
Science, nanoscience, IMDEA Nanociencia, theorical physics, nanomagentism, nanotechnology, nanofabrication.
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).
Numbers
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/supervising 12 PhD students and 6 postdocs. She is lecturer in the NANOLITO summer school. She has been P.I. in the FET-OPEN Project EVONANO Ref: 800983 (2018-2022) and National REGINNA and NanoSCell projects.
Keywords
Science, nanoscience, IMDEA Nanociencia, theorical physics, nanotechnology, nanofabrication.
Dr. M. Teresa Gonzalez
Host institution
IMDEA Nanociencia (Spain)
Role
Head of the Neural Interfaces Lab at IMDEA since 2016.
Numbers
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.
Keywords
Science, nanoscience, IMDEA Nanociencia, theorical physics, nanotechnology.
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.
Numbers
He has supervised 12 PhD & 16 MSc students, holds 7 patents. h-index of 39, >130 publications. Aiden Flanagan (BSL): see in R11.
Keywords
Science, nanoscience, IMDEA Nanociencia, nanobiotechnology.
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, leding the CNRS-GREYC team in the FET-OPEN ByAxon.
Numbers
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.
Keywords
Nanoscience, IMDEA Nanociencia, nanobiotechnology, biometer.
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.
Numbers
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.
Keywords
Science, computacional magnetism, nanoscience, IMDEA Nanociencia, nanobiotechnology, magnetic microsystem.
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.
Numbers
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. He has supervised or co-supervised 24 PhD students.
Keywords
Science, atomic energy, nanoscience, IMDEA Nanociencia, nanobiotechnology, biomedical applications, magneto-encephalography, magnetocardiography.
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.
Numbers
She was awarded the Aymé Poirson Prize from French Academy of Science in 2008 and with James Zimmerman Prize IFMBE in 2014. She has supervised or co-supervised. 10 PhD students.
Keywords
Atomic energy, nanoscience, IMDEA Nanociencia, physics.
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. In the past she conducted research at the Weizmann Institute (MSc and PhD in Physics, 1995-2000), Princeton University (visiting student), and at the University of Washington as a post-doc fellow (2000-2003).
Numbers
Prof. Hanein 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 and a total Citation record of 5514 (h-index: 41 Google Scholar). She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Neural Engineering and Frontiers in Neuroscience Neural Technology and Journal of Neural Engineering. Prof. Hanein has previously supervised >30 post-docs, PhD students and master students. She is currently supervising 2 post-docs, 2 PhD students and 3 Master students Neuro-engineering, developing wearable electronics and bionic vision.
Keywords
Bionic vision, nanoscience, IMDEA Nanociencia, physics, neuro-engineering, wearable electronics.
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.
Numbers
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. Kraft Michael: micro- and nanosystems and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) sensors and devices.
Kraft leads the research division of Micro- and Nano-systems at the Department of Electrical Engineering. He is in charge of the Cleanroom and MEMS activities in the KUL Nanocentre. ORCID: 0000-0002-7213-1072, 410 publications with a total of 6189 citations (h-index of 43, Google Scholar).
Keywords
Science, nanoscience, IMDEA Nanociencia, physics, micro electro mechanical systems, sensors, devices, electrical engineering.
Prof.Laura Ballerini
Host institution
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM, Spain)
Role
Assistant Professor at the 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). She worked at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Stanford Institute for Neuro-Innovation and Translational Neurosciences.
Numbers
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 ORCID 0000-0002-9347-957X, 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).
Keywords
Science, neurodegeneration, nanoscience, IMDEA Nanociencia.
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.
Numbers
Dr. Valencia 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). >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. He is a Tenured Scientist at the Institute Cajal in Madrid (IC) from the CSIC since 2017. Since 2015, he has been PI of 3 national projects as well as 4 doctoral contracts. He has published > 55 scientific articles, with an h-index of 30 and received over 3200 citations (Scopus). He has supervised 9 PhD theses and is currently supervising 4 PhD students.
Keywords
Neuroscience, nanoscience, IMDEA Nanociencia.
Prof. Francesco P.Battaglia
Host institution
Radboud University Nijmegen. Donders Center for Neuroscience, department of Neurophysics (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).
Numbers
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).
Keywords
Science, systems and computational neuroscience, nanoscience, neurotechnology, IMDEA Nanociencia.
Dr. Timo Van Kerkoerle
Host institution
Donders Center for Neuroscience, department of Neurophysics. Radboud University Nijmegen. (The Netherlands)
Role
PI at the RU, he developed and optimised a number of neurotechnologies in macaque monkeys
Numbers
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.
Keywords
Science, cognitive and systems neuroscience, neurotechnology, nanoscience, IMDEA Nanociencia.
Prof. Garry Duffy
Host institution:
University of Galway (GAL BSL, Ireland)
Role
Professor of Anatomy & Regenerative Therapies in the School of Medicine at GAL.
Numbers
He has co-ordinated the diabetes reversing implants, DRIVE H2020 programme to completion (14 partners across 7 countries with €8.9M), led and was successful with a further bid to MSCA-ITN to increase funding to €10.5M for cell-based therapies for Type 1 diabetes in DELIVER.
He has 74 publications, including Science Robotics, Nature Biomedical Engineering), with 3037 citations. 19 researchers have graduated with higher degrees (PhD, MD) from his group with a further 40 trainees.
He is inventor on 13 patents with 8 additional patents in the pipeline and technologies from the lab have been assigned/licenced to Moderna Tx, Boston Scientific, Feeltect and Reverse1 Tx. / Dr. Aiden Flanagan: Biodesign approach to create new growth products for Boston Scientific. Senior Research & Development Fellow at Boston Scientific Corporation and is based in Galway. He manages EU projects including AMCARE, DRIVE, InSilc, Bioimplant, BRAV3, UWIPOM2 and DELIVER. Aiden currently has 61 granted US patents.
Keywords
Cognitive systems, neuroscience, neurotechnology, nanoscience, IMDEA Nanociencia.
Gaute Einevoll
Host institution