José María de Teresa, INMA researcher, “distinguished member” of the American Physical Society for his significant contributions to the field of Physics
José María de Teresa, researcher at the Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón (INMA, a joint CSIC-UNIZAR centre), has just been appointed a Fellow of the American Physical Society for his significant contributions to the field of physics.
This “fellow” appointment is a distinction of honour and a recognition that is awarded annually to less than 0.5% of the society’s members through a rigorous selection process by the council of this scientific society. This distinction highlights the international scientific projection, leadership and multiple contributions in different areas of Physics that José María de Teresa has been developing for years.
The American Physical Society (APS) was founded in 1899 at Columbia University, USA, with the aim of disseminating advances in Physics and promoting scientific research in this field. The society currently has more than 50,000 members and every year, since 1921, it awards the status of “fellow” to those members who have made pioneering and/or significant contributions in some field of Physics, also taking into account the multiple applications to science and technology.
Only four Spanish physicists out of 150 from all over the world have been appointed this year as fellows of this prestigious scientific society. Another of those appointed has been Professor Yamir Moreno, director of the Institute of Biocomputing and Complex Systems Physics (BIFI) and member of the Department of Theoretical Physics and head of the Complex Systems and Networks group (COSNET) at the University of Zaragoza.
José María de Teresa is a researcher at the Institute of Nanoscience and Materials of Aragon (CSIC-University of Zaragoza) and at the Advanced Microscopy Laboratory (University of Zaragoza), head of the Nanofabrication and Advanced Microscopy group (NANOMIDAS) and president of the Condensed Matter Physics Division of the European Physical Society. He has been appointed a Fellow of the American Physical Society “for his contributions to the understanding of the physics of ferromagnetic oxides and nanomaterials fabricated by focused electron and ion beams”.
During his early scientific career, José María De Teresa worked on the physics and spintronic device applications of ferromagnetic oxide materials, in particular with Nobel laureate Albert Fert, with whom he published relevant work on the fabrication of magnetic tunnel junctions and the conversion of spin currents into electric currents. His current focus is on nanofabrication and the study of devices based on magnetic materials, superconductors and new materials. One of his most recent works on the fabrication of magnetic tips is being applied by two companies. He is currently involved in a European project in collaboration with IBM for the fabrication of superconducting quantum sensors.
He has published more than 220 widely cited scientific papers (h=46), has supervised 15 PhD theses and co-authored 6 patents. He was awarded the Young Researchers prize of the Spanish Royal Society of Physics in 1997 and the Aragón Investiga prize for Young Researchers in 2004.
14/10/2021
