VI International Baltic Conference on Magnetism 2025

Dear Colleagues

We are delighted to announce the VI International Baltic Conference on Magnetism: focus on magneto-optics, smart materials and biomedicine (IBCM-2025), to be held in Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia, from 17th of August till 21th of August 2025. The conference is intended to facilitate the interdisciplinary interaction between the leaders and students of these fields. Internationally recognized scientists are invited to report on recent highlights:

1) Magneto-optical Phenomena and Devices

Magneto-optical effects
Magnetism of nano- and microstructures
Ultrafast magneto-optics
Magnonics and spintronics
Advanced photonics materials and devices (magneto-photonic crystals, NPs, waveguides)

2) Biomaterialscience: biocompatibility and applications

Biocompatibility of materials: features of testing on biological objects
Materials in 3d bioprintin
Biophotonics: emission, detection of optical radiation in biological objects

3) Magnetism and Magnetic Materials

Fundamental magnetism
Magnetism of nano- and microstructures
Smart multiferroic materials
Magnetism & Biomedical applications
Magnetism & Ecology

4) 2D materials for high-tech and environmental applications

Synthesis and production of 2D materials
Magnetic MAX-phases: synthesis and production
2D materials for liquid and gas purification
2D materials for sensors
2D materials for high-tech industrial applications

The Conference will also hold the special section «High-tech advances and trends in energy harvesting and energetics». The section invites industry companies to present recent advances and share perspectives on technologies development in their field.

Organizers

Chairperson:

Assoc. Prof., Dr. Valeria Rodionova | Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Program committee:

Prof. Larissa Panina | National University of Science and Technology MISiS
Prof. Yuriy Raikher | Ural Federal University
Prof. Alexander Granovsky | Moscow State University

Local program committee:

Dr. Katerina Levada
Dr. Victor Belyaev
Dr. Kirill Sobolev
Dr. Alexander Omelyanchik

Conference e-mail: ibcm@kantiana.ru

IKBFU website: https://kantiana.ru/

how to find us

Dr. Liudmila Makarova bio

Dr L.A. Makarova is an assistant professor at Lomonosov Moscow State University, working in the research group of Prof. N.S. Perov. She has been conducting research in the field of magnetic elastomers since 2013 and received her Ph.D. in 2018. For the thesis, new materials based on elastomers with multiferroic properties were first developed. The experimental work was complemented by work on numerical modelling of their properties. Dr L. Makarova actively collaborates with various scientific groups.

Her areas of interest include the study of a new one-phase method of synthesis of biocompatible composites with magnetic nanoparticles for theranostics (drug delivery, diagnostics, therapy), a new method of retinal transplantation using a magnetic seal based on a biocompatible magnetic elastomer, and others. Another area of her work is the development and study of layered composites, where one layer is a polymer with ferroelectric properties and the second is a layer of a magnetic elastomer. Such laminated composites have huge induced voltage values, are flexible and could in the future form the basis for universal sensors and converters of electromagnetic and mechanical vibration energy.

Her current research focuses on both engineering and biomedical applications of new multiferroic materials. Her work has been supported by the RFBR, Presidential grant and RSF. At the same time, Dr Makarova works at the IKBFU, where her ideas on three-component multiferroics based on polymer and fine magnetic and ferroelectric particles have been continued in the study of their possible use for stem cell differentiation.

Dr. María Salvador Fernándes bio

María Salvador finished her Chemical Engineering Degree in 2013 at the University of Valladolid (Spain). She carried out bioengineering process research at the Universysity of Wageningen (The Netherlands) for a year. Afterwards, she obtained the Master in Biotechnology of Environment and Health at the University of Oviedo (Spain). She obtained her PhD in Material Science under the co-supervision of the University of Oviedo, (Spain) and Istituto di Struttura della Materia, Rome (Italy) supervised by Montserrat Rivas and José Carlos Martínez in the first institution and Davide Peddis in the second one. Nowadays, she enjoys a Margarita Salas fellowship at the Institute of Materials Science of Madrid and the Department of Physics at the University of Oviedo, where her research activity is focused in the synthesis and characterization of nanoparticles to use them in different biotechnological applications, mainly biodetection and bioregeneration.

Prof. Larisa Panina bio

Professor Larisa Panina is a professor at NUST MISiS with extensive experience at Nagoya University (Nagoya, Japan) and the University of Plymouth (Plymouth, UK). She specializes in magnetic phenomena, magnetic sensors and magnetic materials (barium hexaferrite and other ferrites). Participated/coordinated several national and international projects. Professor Panina is the author of over 324 publications with a citation rating of 8196 and an H-Index of 50.

Prof Petr Nikitin bio

Petr Nikitin is the Head of Biophotonics Laboratory in the Prokhorov General Physics Institute of
the Academy of Sciences of Russia. He received his Ph.D. from the Moscow Institute of Physics
and Technology in 1983.

Invented the ultrasensitive method of magnetic particle quantification (MPQ) based on non-linear
magnetization of nanoparticles and applied it for in vitro diagnostics and in vivo biomedical
studies. The biocomputing nanoparticles for theranostics are another breakthrough development
featured on the cover pages of the Nature Nanotechnology and Chemical Reviews journals.
Developed several highly sensitive optical methods for direct monitoring of molecular
interactions, the phase surface plasmon resonance (SPR) for biosensing, sensors based on: SPR
and SERS on Au-Si grating structures; the low coherent interferometry; various nanoparticles.
Discovered new phenomena such as ferromagnetic liquid nano-droplets; reversible interaction of
gold films with electroactive gases; peculiarities of magnetic and electric field generated by laser
plasma, and of the Faraday effect in semimagnetic semiconductors.
Member of International Advisory Committees of several popular European conferences: EMSA,
Europt(r)ode, etc.

Prof. Igor S. Lyubutin bio

Prof. Igor S. Lyubutin is a Full Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and an expert in solid state physics, magnetism, nanomaterials, superconductivity, Mössbauer spectroscopy, nuclear methods, high-pressure physics, phase transitions, and crystal chemistry. He earned his PhD from Moscow State University and the Institute of Crystallography, USSR Academy of Sciences, from 1962 to 1965. Currently, Prof. Lyubutin serves as the Head of the Department of Nuclear Methods and Magnetic Structures at the Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography, Federal Scientific Research Centre “Crystallography and Photonics” of Russian Academy of Sciences. He has published over 320 scientific papers in high-ranking journals, including 22 reviews, and about 470 papers in conference proceedings and materials. He co-authored four monographs and is the co-editor of the 5-volume book “Applications of the Mössbauer Effect.” Prof. Lyubutin is also known for inspiring and mentoring young physicists.

Prof. Mikhail Lapine bio

Prof. Mikhail Lapine received a Diploma (M.Sc., with honours) in biophysics from Moscow State University in 1997, and a PhD (summa cum laude) in physics from Osnabrueck University in 2004. Upon working for a few years in biophysics and biochemistry at Moscow State University, Russia (1996-1999), and Osnabrueck University, Germany (1999-2001), he turned to theoretical electrodynamics with a specific interest to effective medium treatment of metamaterials as well as development of nonlinear, tunable and reconfigurable metamaterials, and worked on these topics at Osnabrueck University (2001-2004; 2008), Helsinki University of Technology (2005-2007) and the University of Seville (2008-2010). He was also a visiting researcher at the Australian National University (2009; 2010-2011) and St.Petersburg National Research University ITMO (2011), then worked for the University of Sydney (2012-2014), and joined the University of Technology Sydney in 2014. In 2007, Dr. Mikhail Lapine initiated an international journal “Metamaterials” (Elsevier) and then acted as the Editor for this journal, later on as an Editor for “Photonics and Nanostructures – Fundamentals and Applications” (Elsevier). He is also an editorial board member for “European Physical Journal: Applied Metamaterials” (EDP Sciences) and “Scientific Reports” (Springer-Nature).

Prof. Ekaterina Kozlova bio

Dr. Ekaterina Kozlova, Doctor of Chemical Sciences, leading researcher at the G. K. Boreskov Institute of Catalysis of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS), Professor of RAS. E.A. Kozlova entered Novosibirsk State University in 2005. She got PhD degree and Doctor Degree in Boreskov Institute of Catalysis in 2008 and 2018, respectively. The scientific work of E.A. Kozlova is concerned to the study of the photocatalytic processes under UV- and visible light. Her investigation is aimed at the photocatalytic hydrogen production and carbon dioxide reduction as well as photogalvanic devices creation. E. A. Kozlova is a coauthor of more than 100 articles and the author of 10 RF patents, and two chapter in the monograph. She was awarded by several prizes including the Prize of XVI Competition of the European Academy for young scientists of Russia (2009), L´Oreal-UNESCO Prize for women in science (2011), and M. M. Lavrent´ev Competition of grants for young scientists (2010). She was elected Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2022.

Prof. Alexey Sokolov bio

Prof. Alexey Sokolov graduated from Krasnoyarsk State University (now Siberian Federal University) in 1995. After graduation, he taught at the Department of Physics at SibFU. Since 2000, he has been working in the Laboratory of Physics of Magnetic Phenomena at the Institute of Physics, L.V. Kirensky SB RAS (IPh SB RAS) in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. He currently serves as the Deputy Director for Research at this Institute since 2021.

Prof. Sokolov’s main areas of scientific research focus on experimental studies of the magneto-optical properties of nanosized materials, particularly magnetic nanoparticles, noble metal nanoparticles, and quantum dots. For the past eight years, he has been conducting research on the feasibility of using magnetic nanoparticles immobilized by aptamers for targeted microsurgery of cancer cells in a low-frequency alternating magnetic field.

He has co-authored more than 60 peer-reviewed articles and is an Associate Professor at the Department of Experimental Physics and Innovative Technologies of the Siberian Federal University.

Dr. Maria Lomova bio

Dr. Maria V. Lomova is a Associate Professor at Institute of Physics and a Senior Researcher at Scientific Medical Center of Saratov State University, Russia. She has made PhD degree in 2014 in two specialties: biophysics and physical chemistry. Since 2009, she has been doing internships under international and Russian programs at leading scientific centers, since 2019 she has been a grant recipient of the Russian Science Foundation.

The area of her scientific interests covers the sections of science related to the encapsulation of drugs in various types of carriers, with the aim of their controlled delivery to the affected organs and tissues using physical methods. The most interesting aspects of the scientific work is that she owns a wide range of techniques for encapsulating various classes of chemical substances with the possibility of varying the physicochemical characteristics of the final carriers. A separate class of tasks to be solved is the mechanisms for the interaction of magnetic drug carriers with biological objects, as well as their label-free functional visualization.

She supervised 3 PhD students, 15 masters and bachelors, organizes internships for Russian graduate students.

Dr. Fedor Senatov bio

Dr. Fedor Senatov is a researcher specialized in the field of biomaterials. He was born on June 28, 1987, in Moscow. Dr. Senatov completed his higher education at the National University of Science and Technology “MISIS” (NUST “MISIS”) from 2005 to 2010, where he studied nanomaterials. In 2013, he received his scientific degree in condensed matter physics, specializing in the physics of condensed matter. Currently, Dr. Senatov works at NUST “MISIS” as the Director of the Center for Biomedical Engineering, the Executive Director of the Strategic Project “Biomedical Materials and Bioengineering,” and as an Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry. He has published over 90 scientific articles and holds more than 20 patents. Dr. Senatov has received numerous awards, including the Moscow Government Prize and more than 15 awards in the fields of science and education. His H-index is 19.

Prof. Tatiana Murzina bio

PhD, Doctor of Science (Habil.), Associate Professor, Physics department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Dr. Tatiana Murzina received her MSc degree in Physics in 1989, PhD degree in Physics (Laser Physics) in 1992, Doctor of Science degree (Habilitation) in 2010 from Lomonosov Moscow State University, Physics department.

At present Tatiana Murzina is the head of the Laboratory of Nonlinear optics of Nanostructures and Photonic crystals. of Lomonosov Moscow State University. The main research interests are in the field of Nonlinear optics of surfaces, buried interfaces, nanostructures and low-dimensional systems, surface-enhanced second — and third-harmonics’ generation,
nonlinear magnetooptics of thin magnetic films and magnetic nanostructures.

Prof. Nikolay Mushnikov bio

Prof. Nikolay Mushnikov, graduated from Ural State University, physics department, He received PhD degree in 1985 and Dr. Sci. Hab. degree in 2004. Since 1986 he works at Institute of Metal Physics of Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences. Since 2005 he became Head of Ferromagnetic alloys laboratory. Since 2018 up to now he served as Director of IMP UB RAS. He is Professor (part-time) of Ural Federal University. In 2011 he was elected a corresponding member of RAS, in 2016 he became an academician of RAS. From 2009 to 2022 he served as Vice-chairman of Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences. Currently he is member of Bureau of Physical Science Division of Russian Academy of Sciences, editor-in-chief of international journal “Physics of Metals and Metallography”. His research field is experimental study of magnetism of rare-earth and actinide intermetallic compounds and their hydrides. He is particularly interested in magnetovolume effects, magnetic anisotropy and magnetostriction of rare-earth intermetallic compounds, and magnetic phase transitions. He is co-author of 280 peer-reviewed papers published in international journals.

Prof. Alexander Granovsky bio

Prof., Dr. graduated from Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) in 1970, received PhD- degree from MSU in 1976, and received Dr. Sc (advanced degree) from MSU in 1988. Since 1990 he is Professor of Magnetism Department, Faculty of Physics, MSU.

He published 2 books, more than 300 papers, joined over 70 conferences and symposia in international and national level with invited talks and oral contributions. He was visiting professor of Liege University (Belgium), University of Provence (France), Tokyo Metropolitan University (Japan), Chungnam National University (South Korea), National University of Singapore (Singapore), Toyohashi University of Technology (Japan), University of Basque Country (Spain), Lappenranta University of Technology (Finland).

His scientific activities includes : Membership of Magnetic Society of Russia, the Council of Magnetism of Russian Academy of Science, the Council of Magnetism of Russian Foundation for Basic Research, the Committee C-9 of IUPAP (2005-2011); Membership of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Material Science, the Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, the Journal SPIN; Membership of the Advisory Committee of the Basque Center for Materials; Chairman of the Moscow International Symposium on Magnetism; Membership of Organizing Committees of International Conferences, Symposiums and Workshops on Magnetism (ICM, EASTMAG, NMMM, SOMMA, ISAMMA, Nanomagnetism etc)

Scientific fields of Prof., Dr. Granovsky are as follows: Spin-dependent transport in nanostructured materials; Enhanced magneto-optical properties of nanostructured materials; Magnetophotonic crystals, Magnetic semiconductors and oxides; Novel functional materials, Magnetocaloric Effect in Heusler alloys

Prof. Yuriy Raikher bio

Prof. Yuriy Raikher, graduated from Perm State University in 1971, obtained there M.Sci., Ph.D., and Dr. Sci. Hab. Since 1971 works at Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics, Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (Perm, Russia). In 1991 became Head of Laboratory, now Laboratory of Physics and Mechanics of Soft Matter at ICMM; beginning 2013 also Professor (part-time) of Department of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at Ural Federal University (Ekaterinburg, Russia).
Main fields of research: theoretical studies of statistical thermodynamics and kinetics of magnetic fine particles and composite materials based on such: ordinary and viscoelastic magnetic fluids, ferrogels, nanoparticle doped liquid crystals, soft magnetic elastomers, etc. About 210 peer-reviewed articles on magnetic relaxation and resonances in these media, their optics and rheology; co-author of Burylov-Raikher model in theory of ferronematic suspensions. At present, the research scope comprises, in particular, magnetomechanics of elastomeric micro- and nanocomposites; magnetodynamics of viscoelastic ferrofluids and ferrogels.
Collaborations with Technical Universities of Dresden and Ilmenau (Germany). Member of the Board on Physics of Condensed Matter of Russian Academy of Sciences, Member of International Steering Committee on Magnetic Fluids.

Prof. Andrey Zubarev bio

Andrey Zubarev, graduated Physical Faculty of the Ural State University in 1979. In 1986 he defended the Ph.D., and in 1993 – Dr. Sci. Hab. dissertations. Since 1986 he works at Ural Federal University (former Ural State University) in Ekaterinburg, Russia. Actually, he is Professor of Department of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at Ural Federal University. In 1996 and in 1998 he was awarded by the Russian President grants for outstanding scientists – Doctors of Science; in 2014 – 2019 he was supported by the Russian Ministry of Science and Education program “Leading Scientists”.
Main fields of his scientific activity are: theoretical studies structural and phase transitions, magnetic, rheophysics and other properties as well as macroscopic behavior of soft materials, especially soft magnetic composites, magnetic fluids and biological tissues. Scientific collaborations with Technical Universities of Dresden (Germany), Granada University (Spain), University Cote D’Azur (France), Manchester University (UK). Member of International Steering Committee on Magnetic Fluids.

Prof. Gennady Stepanov bio

Prof. Gennady Stepanov, graduated from Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia in 1983. Since 1989, he has been working at the State Research Institute of Chemistry and Technology of Organoelement Compounds (GNIIChTEOS) as a researcher (Moscow, Russia). In 1998 he became the head of the laboratory of magnetic pigments and composites.
The main directions of scientific research: experimental research on the production of magnetic materials, in particular magnetic elastomer composites, magnetorheological, magnetically active elastomers. For the last 20 years he has been studying the properties of such materials. About 110 peer-reviewed articles and twelve patents on the synthesis of magnetic fillers, magnetic elastomers and research on their properties.
Collaborations with Technical Universities of Dresden and Ilmenau (Germany).

Dr. Vladimir Belotelov

Prof. Vladimir Belotelov is a principal investigator at Russian Quantum Center and professor of Lomonosov Moscow State University. He has made PhD degree in 2004 and habilitated to Doctor of science degree in 2013. Vladimir Belotelov is a Professor of Russian Academy of Sciences. Since 2019 Prof. Belotelov is a leading scientist of the Megagrant project by Russian ministry of science and high education in Vernadsky Crimean Federal University in Simferopol.

He has published more than 160 papers in peer review journals. H-index is 34.

Main research areas of expertise of Prof. Belotelov include magnetophotonics, ultrafast magnetism, optomagnonics and quantum magnonics. He is an author of papers on magneto-optical effect enhancement by metal nanostructures that established a new branch of nanophotonics: magnetoplasmonics. Moreover, recently he demonstrated an all-optical switching in metal ferrimagnets mediated my plasmons. Prof. Belotelov also was the first to get optical excitation of surface magnetostatic spin waves and exchange spin waves by fs-laser pulses as well as accumulative effects of spin waves induced by a train of laser pulses. Currently, he studies inverse magneto-optical effects in magnetic nanostructures, ultrafast spin dynamics in ferrimagnets around compensation point and physical principles of magnetic qubits.

Dr. Alexander Baryshev

Alexander Baryshev graduated from Saint-Petersburg State University (MSc) in 1997, received the PhD degree (2003) and ScD degree (2016) in condensed mater physics. He worked as a researcher at Ioffe Institute (1997-2003), JSPS&VBL researcher (2003-2007) and associate professor at Toyohashi University of Technology (2007-2014). He is a head of optical laboratory at Dukhov Automatics Research Institute since 2014. His researches aim at optical/magneto-optical properties of artificial matter, micro- and nanostructures, including studies in photonic crystals, plasmonics, magnetic, gasochromic, fluorescent, and other functional materials for sensing applications and optoelectronic devices. He has co-authored 130 articles, co-edited book chapters and a book on photonic and magnetophotonic crystals.

Dr. Mikhail V. Avdeev

Received his Ph.D. (2002) and D.Sc. (2012) from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia, in the field of the neutron scattering applications in research of soft matter. At present, he is a senior researcher, head of the Neutron Optics Sector of the Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics of JINR. His research interests include small-angle neutron and X-ray scattering from complex systems (magnetic colloids, nanocarbon materials, surfactant and polymer solutions); development of small-angle neutron scattering technique, neutron reflectometry from liquid-containing interfaces, design of neutron experiment. Dr. M.V.Avdeev is the Associate Professor of the Moscow State University, Russia, and the member of Editorial Board of the Coatings MDPI journal. He is the co-author of more than 200 publications.

Dr.Sci. Maksim V. Sapozhnikov

Maksim V. Sapozhnikov is head of the Department for physics of the magnetic nanostructures, Institute for Physics of Microstructures RAS (Nizhny Novgorod). After studies at the radiophysical faculty at University of Nizhny Novgorod and a postdoctoral stay at the Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne IL (USA) he was research associate at the Institute for Physics of Microstructures RAS. Both his PhD (2000) and Dr.Sci. (2018) thesis’s are devoted to long-range order interactions in micro- and nanostructures primarily magnetic ones. His current research interests lie in the field of micromagnetism and transport effects in magnetic nanostructures. He combines his scientific activity with the supervision of scientific work of students and graduate students of the Nizhny Novgorod State University.

Prof. Alexander N. Vasiliev

Alexander N. Vasiliev received his education from the Physics Faculty at Moscow State University where he was awarded a Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics in 1980. He is currently employed as a Professor and the Head of Solid State Physics division at Moscow State University, in addition to serving as the Head of Functional Quantum Materials Laboratory at the National University of Science and Technology “MISiS”. His field of expertise is low dimensional magnetism, condensed matter physics and quantum functional materials, and he has published approximately 500 papers in peer-reviewed international journals with ~ 10 000 s citations and H-index of 50.

Dr. Yury A. Koksharov

Prof. Yury Koksharоv received his PhD degree in 1991 (Low Temperature Physics) and Doctor of Science degree in 2013 (Physics of Magnetic Phenomena) from the Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
His main scientific interests include fundamentals of magnetostatic and electrostatic phenomena, electron magnetic resonance spectroscopy, physics of magnetic nanoparticles, various applications of nanoparticles in biology and medecine.

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Prof. Alexander Pyatakov

Alexander Pyatakov (b.1978) has graduated with distinction M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2001. His PhD and Doctor of Science theses were devoted to the Physics of magnetoelectric and multiferroic materials. In 2004 he was appointed as a Research Scientist at the Physics Department of Moscow State University, where he is currently a Professor.
In 2016 Dr. Pyatakov was elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences as an associated member (RAS Professor). In 2017 A. Pyatakov was awarded with Moscow government prize for young scientist in “Physics and astronomy” nomination. In 2021 he got a Best Moscow University Professor Award from Basis Foundation.
Prof. Pyatakov has authored and co-authored more than a hundred scientific papers, 2 books, presented more than 40 invited talks and lectures at international conferences. He is a secretary of the Russian Magnetic Society (MAGO) and the Chief Editor of the MAGO Bulletin.

Prof. Elena Kramarenko

Elena Kramarenko is a full professor at the Chair of Physics of Polymers and Crystals, Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University. Her research interests lie in the field of new intelligent polymeric materials that are highly sensitive to various external influences. The main attention is paid to the phenomena of self-organization of ion-containing polymers in polar and low-polar media, solutions and melts of polymers of complex architecture, in particular, dendrimers, as well as the creation of magnetically active polymer composites that change a wide range of physical properties when an external magnetic field is applied. Scientific research in these areas is carried out in close cooperation with colleagues from the A.N. Nesmeyanov institute of Organoelement Compounds and the Institute of Synthetic Polymer Materials of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where Professor Kramarenko works as a part-time leading
researcher. In 2016 she was awarded the title of Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Aleksandra Kalashnikova

Alexandra Kalashnikova graduated from the ITMO University in 2003, got the PhD degree from the Radboud University in 2009. Since 2010 she is a researcher at Ioffe Institute; since 2018 – a head of the Ferroics Physics Laboratory founded in 2013 under the Megagrant program. She is a co-author of 65 papers on ultrafast magnetism, magneto-optics and ultrafast phononics with more than 2300 citations (h-index is 23). 2 PhD students got their degrees under Alexandras’ supervision, currently she supervises 3 PhD students. She is a lecturer in the ITMO University, and also a co-supervisor of the masters program Photonics and Spintronics.

ARTEM
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I’m really glad that I am alumni of master program “Functional nanomaterials and modern technologies”. During my master education, I have met a lot of interesting scientists from different countries, and while communicating with them on lectures and practices gained valuable experience.
The choice of writing diploma in athe form of startup brought me very interesting experience, because I didn’t relate to startup activities before. The Ttopic of my diploma interested in the NOMC “North-Western Center for Mathematical Research named after Sofia Kovalevskaya” that was based on the REC “Smart Materials and Biomedical Applications” at our University, where I continue to work on the development of this topic with the support of the above-mentioned centers.

ANNA
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It was a really hard two years of studying in FunNAT but it was definitely worth it. Moving to Kaliningrad, studying in English, writing two thesis takes a lot of your time and energy. Still, this is exactly the kind of situation when you are happy to be exhausted because the results are amazing.

During this program I:
· Meet true professors who care about their students and love their subjects
· Start working in bio lab with cancer cell cultures despite I have bachelor in materials science
· Try to study Polish language
· Find a perfect supervisor for PhD
· Receive master diploma in physics and master diploma in nanomaterials

MOHAMED
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First, I want to take about my experience studying nanotechnology’s magnetic medical applications and its development:
My experience so far is one of pride that I have been able to be a part of BFU Immanuel Kant university’s physics department. The dedication and hard work that has been put into my two years of study has allowed me to succeed in many ways, as well as increasing my self-development skills. The university’s nanotechnologies department is a great place to study and I would suggest it to anyone!

Second, I want to talk about effort has been made by university staff to afford the best education and help to the students:
The university have amazing staff support when it comes to all things internally at university and externally within the environment. They are always prepared to go above and beyond when it comes to supporting students when they are confused, or when they are in the worst places. The support given at IKBFU is the best I’ve seen and heard about, no matter is too small nor too big for the university. Everyone is thought about and even if you are not asking for support, it is always there and will present itself when you need it most!

Dmitry Artamonov

Place of work, study: M.S, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University
Years of study in the Master program FunNAT: 2019 – 2021

Topic of master thesis:
«Luminescent biopolymers based on extracts for photoactivation of singlet oxygen»

Publications during the study in Master Course and after:
1 – Tcibulnikova A.V.; Zemlyakova E.S.; Slezhkin Structure V.A.; Samusev I.G.; Bryukhanov V.V.; Khankaev A.A.; Artamonov D.A. Spectroscopy of triplet-excited complexes of oxygen with spruce cone molecules extract from picea abies in AOT micelles under combined photoexcitation
2 – Tcibulnikova A.; Zemliakova E.; Artamonov D.; Slezhkin V.; Skrypnik L.; Samusev I.; Zyubin A.; Khankaev A.; Bryukhanov V.; Lyatun I. Photonics of Viburnum opulus L. Extracts in Microemulsions with Oxygen and Gold Nanoparticles
3 – ARTAMONOV D.A., MYSLITSKAYA N.A., TSYBULNIKOVA A.V., SAMUSEV I.G., BRYUKHANOV V.V. OPTICAL RADIATION SPECTRA OF BISMUTH AND YTTERBIUM OXIDE UNDER INFRARED EXCITATION
4 – KHANKAEV A.A., ARTAMONOV D.A., TSYBULNIKOVA A.V., SHADDKIN V.A., SAMUSEV I.G., BRYUKHANOV V.V. PERMITTIVITY FUNCTIONS TITANIUM NANOSTRUCTURED DATA SURFACES
5 – ARTAMONOV DMITRY ALEXANDROVICH, TSYBULNIKOVA ANNA VLADIMIROVNA, SHLYADKIN VASILY ANATOLYEVICH, BRYUKHANOV VALERY VENIAMINOVICH, MEDVEDSKAYA POLINA NIKOLAEVNA, LYATUN IVAN IGOREVICH OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF TRIVALENT THULIUM IONS IN THE PRESENCE OF SILVER NANOPARTICLES IN TM2O3 MEDIUM
6 – TSYBULNIKOVA ANNA VLADIMIROVNA, ARTAMONOV DMITRY ALEXANDROVICH, SHLEZHKIN VASILY ANATOLYEVICH, BRYUKHANOV VALERY VENIAMINOVICH BROADENING OF EXTINCTION AND IMAGINARY SPECTRA DIELECTRIC CONSTANT IN A CLUSTER OF GOLD NANOPARTICLES
7 – DEMESHKEVICH E.A., ZYUBIN A.YU., KHANKAEV A.A., ARTAMONOV D.A., SAMUSEV I.G. FORMATION OF MONODISPERSE PLATINUM NANOPARTICLES BY FEMTOSECOND LASER ABLATION

Named scholarships:
Finalist of the competition for the program “UMNIC” – 2019 in the Kaliningrad region

Alexandr Tepliakov

Place of work, study: M.S, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University
Years of study in the Master program FunNAT: 2019 – 2021

Topic of master thesis:
Thesis: «Solitons in condensed matter physics and black holes»
Thesis Advisor: Artyom V. Astashenok, Ph.D.

Publications during the study in Master Course and after:
1 – A.V. Astashenok, A.S. Tepliakov. Some models of holographic dark energy on the Randall-Sundrum brane and observational data, International Journal of Modern Physics D Vol. 29, No. 01, 1950176 (2020). DOI:10.1142/S0218271819501761
2 – A.V. Astashenok, S.D. Odintsov, A.S. Tepliakov. The unified history of the viscous accelerating universe and phase transitions, Nucl.Phys.B 974 (2022) 115646 DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2021.115646
3 – A.V. Astashenok, A.S. Teplyakov. On possible manifestations of the quantum effect of Hawking radiation in nonlinear optics, Bulletin of the Baltic Federal University named after I. Kant. Ser.: Physical, Mathematical and Technical Sciences. 2021 No. 2 pp. 103-114.
4 – A. S. Baigashev, M. A. Nikitin, A. S. Teplyakov. Nuclear protection against kilometer-long asteroids. Space Research, 2022, Volume 60, No. 4, pp. 1-6 DOI: 10.31857/S0023420622040021
5 – M.A. Nikitin, A.S. Teplyakov. Space elevator. Popular Science Physics and Mathematics journal “Kvant”, 2022, No. 1, pp. 13-17. DOI:10.4213/kvant20220101
6 – Astashenok, A.V.; Tepliakov, A. Crossing of Phantom Divide Line in Model of Interacting Tsallis Holographic Dark Energy. Universe 2022, 8, 265 DOI:10.3390/universe8050265
7 – A. S. Baigashov, M. A. Nikitin, and A. S. Tepliakov. Nuclear Defense Against Kilometer-Long Asteroids. Cosmic Research, 2022, Vol. 60, No. 4, pp. 292–296. DOI: 10.1134/S0010952522040025

Participation in grants:
1. Manager for physical and mathematical training of students and organization of the network segment of the project «Stimulating the scientific and technological creativity of young people and involving gifted schoolchildren in the future
professional activity “The Way to the Stars”». №19-2-006087. Project realization term: 01.11.2019 – 31.10.2020.
2. Manager for work with tutors of the project «Engaging students in future professional activities “New Horizons”».
№ 21-1-008956. Project realization term: 01.02.2021 – 31.01.2022

Dmitry Murzin

Place of work, study: M.S, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University
Years of study in the Master program FunNAT: 2019 – 2021

Topic of master thesis:
«Three-dimensional magnetic field mapping with magnetoplasmonic crystal-based sensor»

Publications during the study in Master Course and after:
1 – Murzin, D., Mapps, D. J., Levada, K., Belyaev, V., Omelyanchik, A., Panina, L., & Rodionova, V. (2020). Ultrasensitive magnetic field sensors for biomedical applications. Sensors, 20(6), 1569
2 – Murzin, D. V., Belyaev, V. K., Groß, F., Gräfe, J., Rivas, M., & Rodionova, V. V. (2020). Tuning the magnetic properties of
permalloy-based magnetoplasmonic crystals for sensor applications. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 59(SE), SEEA04.
3 – Belyaev, V. K., Murzin, D. V., Kozlov, A. G., Grunin, A. A., Samardak, A. S., Ognev, A. V., … & Rodionova, V. V. (2020).
Engineering of optical, magneto-optical and magnetic properties of nickel-based one-dimensional magnetoplasmonic crystals. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 59(SE), SEEA08.
4 – Omelyanchik, A., Antipova, V., Gritsenko, C., Kolesnikova, V., Murzin, D., Han, Y., … & Rodionova, V. (2021). Boosting
magnetoelectric effect in polymer-based nanocomposites. Nanomaterials, 11(5), 1154
5 – Belyaev, V. K., Murzin, D., Martínez-García, J. C., Rivas, M., Andreev, N. V., Kozlov, A. G., … & Rodionova, V. (2021). FORC-diagram analysis for a step-like magnetization reversal in nanopatterned stripe array. Materials, 14(24), 7523
6 – Motorzhina, A., Jovanović, S., Belyaev, V. K., Murzin, D., Pshenichnikov, S., Kolesnikova, V. G., … & Levada, K. (2021).
Innovative Gold/Cobalt Ferrite Nanocomposite: Physicochemical and Cytotoxicity Properties. Processes, 9(12), 2264

Participation in grants:
1. Main executor in Russian Science Foundation grant No. 21-72-3002 “Development and research of multimaterials with
magnetic nanocomponents for additive 3d-5d technologies”, project started in 2021.
2. Executor government task No. 3.4168.2017 “Capture, retention and injection of a domain wall in wires with cylindrical
symmetry with diameters from submicrons to microns and control of the dynamics of the motion of the domain wall in them”, 2017-2019.
3. Executor in Russian Science Foundation grant No. 22-22-00997 “Development of a magnetic field sensor element based
on a two-dimensional magnetoplasmonic crystal for point-of-care devices”, project started in 2022.
4. Executor in Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation grant “Development of a sensor for
detecting constant and variable magnetic fields based on a magnetoplasmonic crystal”.

Named scholarships:
1 – Advanced scholarship of the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University
2 – Personal scholarship of the Governor of the Kaliningrad region

Internships:
1. Internship to the department of magnetism of the Lomonosov Moscow State University
2. Internship to the Institute of Chemistry and Ecology of the Vyatka State University

Christina Gritsenko

Place of work, study: M.S, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University
Years of study in the Master program FunNAT: Graduated Master programme in 2019
Candidate of Science 2018

Topic of master thesis:
«Study of temperature-dependent magnetization reversal in exchange bias structures based on permalloy»

Publications during the study in Master Course and after:
1 – Temperature-dependent magnetization reversal in exchange bias nife/irmn/nife structures / Gritsenko Ch., Dzhun
I., Volochaev M., Gorshenkov M., Babaytsev G., Chechenin N., Sokolov A., Tretiakov Oleg A., Rodionova V.// Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials – 2019– V. 482 – p. 370-375, (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmmm.2019.03.044).
2 – Inhomogeneous magnetic field influence on magnetic properties of NiFe/IrMn thin film structures / Gritsenko Ch.,
Omelyanchik A., Berg A., Dzhun I., Chechenin N., Tretiakov O., Rodionova V.// Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials – 2019 – V. 475 – p. 763-766. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmmm.2018.10.013).
3 – FMR investigations of exchange biased NiFe/IrMn/NiFe trilayers with high and low Ni relative content / Dzhun I.O.,
Babaytsev G. V., Chechenin N.G., Gritsenko C.A., Rodionova V. V. // Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials – 2019 – V. 470 – p. 151-155. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmmm.2017.11.028).
4 – Amirov, A. A., Yusupov, D. M., Murliev, E. K., Gritsenko, C. A., Aliev, A. M., & Tishin, A. M. (2021). Smart thermoresponsive composite activated by magnetocaloric effect. Materials Letters, 304, 130626 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2021.130626).
5 – Gritsenko C. et al. Complex Study of Magnetization Reversal Mechanisms of FeNi/FeMn Bilayers Depending on
Growth Conditions //Nanomaterials. – 2022 – Т. 12 – №. 7 – С. 1178, (https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12071178 ).
6 – Omelyanchik, A., Antipova, V., Gritsenko, C., Kolesnikova, V., Murzin, D., Han, Y., … & Rodionova, V. (2021).
Boosting magnetoelectric effect in polymer-based nanocomposites. Nanomaterials, 11(5), 1154,(https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11051154).

Participation in grants:
1. Russian Science Foundation, 21-72-30032 Development and research of multi-materials with magnetic nanocomponents for additive 3d-5d technologies”, 2021 – 2024, participation;
2. Russian Science Foundation, 21-72-20158 “Development of mesoscale hybrid magnetic particles for biomedical applications,” participation;
3 Russian Foundation for Basic Research, 17-32- 50170, “Investigation of the influence of nickel content in exchange-coupled NiFe films on their micromagnetic structure and structural properties of thin-film systems based on them”, 03-06.2018 г., participation;
4. The Government assignment № 3.4168.2017/ПЧ “Trapping, pinning and injecting of domain wall in wire with cylindrical symmetry with diameters from submicron to few microns and control of domain wall propagation dynamics”, 2017-2019 гг., participation;
5. Russian Science Foundation, 18-79-10176, “Development and creation of technological bases for the design of magnetoelectric smart composites for controlled release of drugs”, 2018-2019 гг., participation;
6. Russian Science Foundation, 17-12-01569, “Physics fundamentals for the creation of electromagnetic actuators based on microwires”, 2017-2019, participation;
7. Grant from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation No. 13.2251.21.0143 “Development of a sensor for detecting constant and variable magnetic fields based on a magnetoplasmonic crystal”, 2022-2025, participation.

Named scholarships:
One year (2021) Postdoc position at the Faculty of Science of Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Šafárika v Košiciach (Kosice, Slovakia) for study of 1D and 2D diffraction gratings with metal dielectric interfaces.

Internships:
1 – NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2019 – INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY OF ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS OF CNR (FLORENCE, ITALY) – Synthesis and investigation of thin ferromagnetic films NiXFe100-X using magnetron sputtering method.Fabrication of diffraction gratings using electron beam lithography.
2 – JULY 2019 – GDAŃSK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (GDANSK, POLAND)- Erasmus+ program, Investigation of
structural properties exchange biased NiFe/FeMn thin film structures.

Anna Motorzhina

Place of work, study: M.S, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University
Years of study in the Master program FunNAT: M.S, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, 2019 – 2021

Topic of master thesis:
Thesis: «Magnetic cobalt-ferrite nanoparticles as a novel therapeutic agent for T-lymphoblastic leukemia»
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Kateryna Levada, Dr. Sonja Jovanovic, Prof. Anna Perelomova

Publications during the study in Master Course and after:
1 – A.V. Motorzhina et al., Innovative Gold/Cobalt Ferrite Nanocomposite: Physicochemical and Cytotoxicity Properties // Processes. – 2021 – T. 9 – P. 2264 DOI: 10.3390/pr9122264
2 – A.V. Motorzhina et al., Study of Gold/Zinc-doped cobalt ferrite nanoparticles cytotoxic effect on T-lymphoblastic leukemia cells // Nanobiotechnology Reports. – 2022 – T.3 – DOI: 10.56304/S1992722322030128

Participation in grants:
1. April 2021 – May 2022 Research Engineer PSF 21-72-30032 Development and investigation of multimaterials with magnetic nanoinclusions for additive 3d-5d technologies
2. April 2021 – May 2022 Research Engineer PSF 21-72-20158 Development of mesoscale hybrid magnetic particles for biomedical applications
3. May 2022 – to date Research Engineer PSF 22-22-20124 Synthesis and investigation of nickel-zinc nanoparticles doped with silver, as promising multifunctional active agents for wastewater treatment
4. May 2022 – to date Research Engineer PSF 22-12-20036 Development of innovative devices for selective water and air purification based on two-dimensional materials – MXenes

Named scholarships:
Advanced scholarship of the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Internships:
December 3 –9, 2019 Magnetism Department of M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia) under the supervision of Prof. N. Perov

Artem Ignatov

Place of work, study: M.S, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University
Years of study in the Master’s program FunNAT: M.S, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, 2020 – 2022

Topic of master thesis:«Mathematical modeling of the magnetoelectric effect in a multiferroic composite»

Participation in grants:
1. Russian Science Foundation, 21-72-30032 “Development and research of multi-materials with magnetic nanocomponents
for additive 3d-5d technologies”, 2021 – 2024, participation;
2. Russian Science Foundation, 21-72-20157, participation;

Named scholarships:
Enhanced State Academic scholarship

Mark Smirnov

Place of work, study: M.S, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University
Years of study in the Master’s program FunNAT: M.S, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, 2019 – 2021

Publications during the study in Master Course and after:
1 – Mark Smirnov, Ivan Mershiev, Galina Kupriyanova. 1H high-resolution NMR spectrometry and relaxometry for soybean oil research. Magnetic Resonance and its Applications. Spinus-2021. Proceedings. Saint Petersburg State University, 2021 282
pp. ISSN 2542–2049;
2 – Mark Smirnov, Ivan Mershiev, Alexsander Musalenko, Galina Kupriyanova. 1H NMR study of soybean oils. Magnetic Resonance and its Applications. Spinus-2020. Proceedings. Saint Petersburg State University, 2020 308 pp. ISSN 2542-2049;
3 – Mark Smirnov, Ivan Mershiev, Galina Kupriyanova. 1H High-resolution NMR relaxometry for olive oil research. Magnetic Resonance and its Applications. Spinus-2022. Proceedings. Saint Petersburg State University, 2022 271 pp. ISSN 2542 – 2049;
4 – Kupriyanova G.S., Sinyavsky N.Ya.,, Mershiev I.G., Musalenko А.А., Smirnov M.L.. Application of relaxation 1H NMR for oil study. Marine intelligent technology. Electronic network (ISSN 2588-0233) and print (ISSN No. 2073-7173) publications. VI International Baltic Marine Forum. Kaliningrad Т. 1 2019
5 – Smirnov M.L., Zyubin A.Yu., Demishkevich E.A., Kupriyanova G.S. 1H NMR Rhodamine in asin silver solution.
XIX INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE “INNOVATION IN SCIENCE, EDUCATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP – 2021”, SECTION “PHYSICS OF CONDENSED STATE”. Proceedings. Kaliningrad State Technical University, 2022 667 pp. ISBN 978-5-7481-0485-2.
6 – M. Smirnov, I. Mershiev, G. Kupriyanova. 13С NMR High Resolution Spectrometry and Relaxometry for Soybean Oil Research. MODERN DEVELOPMENT OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE – 2021 Proceedings. Zavoisky Physical-Technical Institute, FRC Kazan Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences. 2021 288 pp.
7 – G.S. Kupriyanova, G. V. Mozzhukhin, I. G. Mershiev, M. L. Smirnov, B. Z. Rameev. 1 H, 13C NMR for Testing of Edible Oils. MODERN DEVELOPMENT OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE – 2021 Proceedings. Zavoisky Physical-Technical Institute, FRC Kazan Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences. 2021 288 pp.

Named scholarships:
Laureate of the competition of the best poster presentation. 18 International Youth school conference «Spinus. Magnetic resonance and its application».

Dr. Dmitriy Karpenkov

Application of Magnetic Materials

2 semester | 4 CP | Credit with points

NUST MISIS, Moscow, Russia

The goal of the course is to study the methodologies, experimental technologies of analysis and application of magnetic properties of materials in the solid state on an introductory level. The learning objective of the «Application of Magnetic Materials» course is to provide students with the main concepts and fundamental aspects in fields of application of magnetic materials such as Magnetic recording; Magnetic refrigeration; Biomedicine.

Magnetic recording: theory and thermodynamics of the magnetocaloric effect

Magnetocaloric thermodynamic cycles

Magnetocaloric materials

Existing prototypes of magnetocaloric devices

Magnetic microwires and their practical applications

Exchange-biased thin film structures and possibilities of their application

Biological applications of nanoparticles and nanoobjects

Magnetooptics and magnetooptical methods of magnetic properties investigation

Magnetic MAX phases and their practical perspectives

Highly-sensitive magnetic sensorics for biomedical applications

Dr. Alexander Petrov

Additive Manufacturing Technologies: from Macro to Nanoscale

2 semester | 4 CP | Credit with points

Lomonosov MSU, Moscow, Russia

The learning objective of the «Additive Manufacturing Technologies: from Macro- to Nanoscale» course is to provide students with essential theoretical and practical knowledge in the area of three-dimensional printing, such as:

The general description of modern additive manufacturing technologies, brief history of their development and state-of-art in this field nowadays

Main software used for the creation and handling the 3D model, main errors which may occur when working with this model and ways to solve them

The modern methods of 3D printing, their advantages, limitations and main areas of application

Main features of additive manufacturing technologies

Classification of 3D printing technologies

Main software for 3D printing

Creation and preparation of a 3D object model

Extrusion methods of 3D printing

Powder methods of 3D printing

Inkjet methods of 3D printing

3D Bio-printing

Multistage and continuous photopolymerization 3D printing

Lithographic and hybrid printing methods

Electrodeposition of ions in liquid

Focused ion beam induced deposition

Nano- , Surface- and Interface Physics

2 semester | 4 CP | Credit with points

The goal of the course is to study the theoretical methodologies and experimental technologies of manufacturing magnetic nanostructures and control the magnetic response of magnetic devices with nanoscale dimensions. The course addresses both theory and experiment that are vital for gaining an essential understanding of topics at the interface between magnetism and materials science. The course presents fundamental background material and state-of-the-art applications.

Dr. Dmitriy Karpenkov

Multiferroic and Smart Materials

2 semester | 4 CP | Credit with points

Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia

The goal of the course is to study the theoretical methodologies and experimental technologies of next generation multifunctional electronic device applications such as areas like electron-magnons, multiferroic vortices, and functionalization of domain walls. Properties, Techniques, and Applications will be learned.
The course addresses both theory and experiment that are vital for gaining an essential understanding of fundamental science and state-of-the-art applications of multiferroic and smart magnetic materials like magnetic shape memory alloys.

Dr. Igor Alexeenko

Holography and Image Processing

1 semester | 5 CP | Credit

Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia

Digital holography and digital image processing are twins born by computer era. They share origin, theoretical base, methods and algorithms. The present course is dedicated to these common fundamentals principles, methods and algorithms including image and hologram digitization, data compression, digital transforms and efficient computational algorithms, statistical and other methods, image restoration and enhancement, image reconstruction in tomography and digital holography, discrete signal resampling and image geometrical transformations, accurate measurements and reliable target localization in images, recording and reconstruction of computer generated holograms, adaptive and nonlinear filters for sensor signal perfecting and image restoration and enhancement. The course combines theory, heavily illustrated practical methods and efficient computational algorithms and is developed for master students, researchers and engineers in optics, photonics, opto-electronics, materials science, and electronic engineering. The course introduces the principles behind holography and takes a student on a step-by-step way through the materials, equipment, and techniques required to produce their own holograms.

Dr. Ilya Samusev

Dr. Andrei Zyubin

Molecular Photonics

2 semester | 6 CP | Exam

Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia

This course is dedicated to the study of light, its interactions with matter, and the transformations of matter triggered by light. An integrated approach, inspired by a recent trend trying to merge the physical aspects of light, such as wave optics and field theory, and the more chemical concepts, such as photonics and quantum theory is chosen within the course. The descriptions of the “photo” and “opto” related areas are not separated from each other, but under the single concept of “Molecular Photonics” they have been merged. Rather than trying to answer the question, “What is light?” it is illustrated how we, as human beings, understand the concept of light. In order to understand the concept of “Molecular Photonics” it is crucial for the student to undertake a study of fundamental principles. The first part of the course “Fundamentals of Molecular Photonics” includes several sections dedicated to optics, the molecular field theory, the radiation field theory, and the interactions between the molecular field and the radiation field. Fundamental principles are often treated in an introductory part, leading the students to think that they are of little importance and that they can be understood with ease. This trend of relegating the fundamentals to a brief introduction is getting increasingly common in natural sciences. Each fundamental concept of “Molecular Photonics” is explained through tables and figures produced by an original computer system. “Fundamentals of Molecular Photonics” proceeds with three advanced parts dedicated to photochemical reactions, photophysical processes and light-materials interaction.

Dr. Igor Alexeenko

Dr. Natalia Sherstuk

Laser Physics

2 semester | 6 CP | Exam

Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia

MIREA, Moscow, Russia

A main goal in the conception of this course was to describe the fundamentals of lasers in a uniform and especially lab-oriented notation and formulation as well as many currently well-known laser types, becoming more and more important in the future. It closes a gap between the measureable spectroscopic quantities and the whole theoretical description and modeling. This course contains not only the fundamentals and the context of laser physics in a mathematical and methodical approach important for university-level studies. It allows simultaneously, owing to its conception and its modern notation, to directly implement and use the learned matter in the practical lab work. It is presented in a format suitable for everybody who wants not only to understand the fundamentals of lasers but also use modern lasers or even develop and make laser setups. The course tries to limit prerequisite knowledge and fundamental understanding to a minimum and is intended for students mastering in physics, chemistry and thechnology after a bachelor degree, with the intention to create as much joy and interest as seen among the participants of the corresponding lectures. This university course describes in its first three parts the fundamentals of lasers: light-matter interaction, the amplifying laser medium and the laser resonator. In the fourth part, pulse generation and related techniques are presented. The fifth part gives a closing overview on different laser types gaining importance currently and in the future. It also contains a set of examples on which the theory learned in the first four parts is applied and extended.

Dr. Ilya Samusev

Dr. Andrei Zyubin

Advanced Photonics and Nanophotonics

2 semester | 6 CP | Exam

Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia

This course covers the basic physical principles underlying the technology and all applications of photonics from statistical optics to quantum optics. Nanophotonics is where photonics merges with nanoscience and nanotechnology, and where spatial conﬁnement considerably modiﬁes light propagation and light-matter interaction. Describing the basic phenomena, principles, experimental advances and potential impact of nanophotonics, this part of the course is ideal for students mastering in physics, optical and electronic engineering and materials science. The course also highlights practical issues, material properties and device feasibility, and includes the basic optical properties of metals, semiconductors and dielectrics. Mathematics is kept to a minimum and theoretical issues are reduced to a conceptual level. Each chapter is equipped with problems so students can monitor their understanding of the material presented. The introductory quantum theory of solids and size effects in semiconductors is considered to give a parallel discussion of wave optics and wave mechanics of nanostructures. The physical and historical interplay of wave optics and quantum mechanics is traced. Nanoplasmonics, an essential part of modern photonics, is also included.

Photons in perspective

Coherence and Statistical Optics

Complex Light and Singular Optics

Electrodynamics of Dielectric Media

Fast and slow Light; Holography

Multiphoton Processes

Optical Angular Momentum

Optical Forces, Trapping and Manipulation

Polarization States; Quantum Electrodynamics

Quantum Information and Computing

Quantum Optics

Resonance Energy Transfer

Surface Optics

Ultrafast Pulse Phenomena

Prof., Dr. Andrei V. Petukhov

Nanomaterials: Structure & Scattering

2 semester | 2 CP | Credit with points

Utrecht University, Netherlands

During the course, the following topics will be discussed:

Recall of equilibrium thermodynamics

Future materials

Introduction to linear nonequilibrium thermodynamics

Nonlinear nonequilibrium thermodynamics I: stability

Chemical computer based on oscillating reactions

Nonlinear nonequilibrium thermodynamics II: chirality

Presentations of students’ essays

Nonequilibrium systems in biophysics

Signal propagation in neuronetworks

Prof. Montserrat Rivas

Polina Khapaeva

Dr. Angelina Dolgaya

Anna Lisevich

Scientific Communication, Presentation and Business Skills

2 semester | 3 CP | Credit

University of Oviedo, Dept. of Physics, Gijón Polytechnic School, Gijón, Spain

ITMO University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia

The purpose of studying the discipline “Scientific communication, presentation of scientific results and business skills” is to show young scientists what they need more than theoretical knowledge and methods. That success goes beyond “practical training” when it comes to teaching, writing grants, or about any of the many demands of a modern researcher. The goal is to prepare students for leadership responsibilities and academic career goals. Students learn about the importance of communication in their daily, professional and personal lives. Practical exercises such as body language and verbal, non-verbal and vocal aspects of communication will be used to achieve the goals.

Overcoming of obstacles and development of new ideas for the master’s thesis

Managing the complexity of project management

Creating slides and storylines: optimizing the academic presentation

Presentations in the field of science and everyday life

Scientific practice and problems in everyday research

Fundamentals of Business Administration

Interaction.

Intercultural communication

Time Management

Project Management

Customer Development

Problem definition and solving

Ideation

Prototyping

Testing

Reflection and Debating

Minimum Viable Product

Business modelling

Dr. Christina Gritsenko

Dr. Franciscarlos Gomes da Silva

Prof. Alex Fabiano Campos

Dr. Vladimir Sivakov

Prof. Claudio Sangregorio

Dr. Sonja Jovanovic

Advanced Nanomaterials Science

2 semester | 5 CP | Exam

Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia

University of Brasília (UnB), Institute of Physics, Brasília, Brazil

Laboratory for Environmental and Applied Nanoscience University of Brasília, Brazil

Group „Silicon Nanostructures“ Leader Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology Jena, Germany

Italian National Council for Research, Institute for the Chemistry of OrganoMetallic Compounds(Iccom-Cnr), Florence, Italy

Laboratory of Physics, Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia

The purpose of studying the discipline “Advanced Nanomaterials Science” is to acquire students’ knowledge of modern methods for creating, characterizing and manipulating nanoobjects, as well as the physics of objects with sizes from 1 to 100 nm. Knowledge of the fundamentals of the physics of nanoobjects gives the student an advantage in their research work, speeding up the solution of tasks and opening the way to solving previously unsolvable issues.

Introduction to Nanoscience

Nanoscience Tools

Mechanics at Nanoscale

Nanoelectronics

Nanochemistry

Nanophotonics

Nano-bioapplications

Bonding types and energies

Thin film synthesis and characterization

Magnetic properties of thin films

Dr. Kateryna Levada

Selected Chapters of Biology and Chemistry

2 semester | 5 CP | Credit with points

Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia

The purpose of studying the course is the mastery of the basic information and principles of the kinetics of biochemical reactions, kinetics of enzyme reactions and of the basic the structure and functions of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates for further use by other disciplines of natural science content. Part of discipline describes protein folding and proteostasis processes are described. A significant part of the course is devoted to the description of the basic principles and mechanisms of protein functionalization. Phosphorylation is described as one of the important ways to regulate the activity of proteins. The purpose of studying the course is the mastery of the basic information and principles of basic principles of the kinetics of biological reactions for further use by other disciplines of natural science content. Another part describes in detail the autophagy, cell cycle characterization and features, basic mechanism of necrosis. This course includes a description of the basic mechanisms of cell death. It shows that identification of the type of cell death is very important when studying the effect of nanomaterials on biological objects (types of cell death differ in their parameters and the effect on cell metabolism, intercellular space, surrounding tissues). The course describes in detail additional changes occurring in the cell and the body as a result of the cell death process development. It is also shown that the development of apoptosis, necrosis, and autophagy can be induced by the influence (or treatment) of nanomaterials on cellular structures.

Enzymes

Methabolites+TCA

ETC+ATP-synthase

The sweet side of catabolism

Lipid digestion and inter-organ transport

Where do amino acids come from

Glycogen store

Kinetics

Prot folding

Protein regulation

Protein phosphorylation

Autophagy

Cell cycle

Cell death

Dr. Mariia Efremova

Nanomaterials and Biological Systems. Bionanotechnologies

2 semester | 5 CP | Exam

Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

The purpose of the study of the discipline “Nanomaterials and biological systems. Bionanotechnology ” is to provide students on the basic principles and laws on the interaction of nanomaterials and biological systems; basic techniques and technologies of bionanotechnology.

Introduction to Cell Biology

Prokaryotes.

The Cell. The Fundamental Units of Life.

Viruses.

Chromosome and Cell Cycle.

Introduction to nanotechnology.

Nanomagnetism in medicine: an introduction to quantum dots.

Nanomagnetism in medicine.

Nanoparticles in medicine.

Photodynamics and cancer therapy.

Molecular recognition and assembly of biological structures.

DNA formation and assembly of peptide nanomaterials.

The use of biological assemblies in nanotechnology.

Medical use of bionanotechnology.

Other areas of application of bionanotechnology, nanoagrarian application, water technologies, nanocosmetics.

Prospects for the development of nanobiotechnology and bionanotechnology.

Prof., Dr. Davide Peddis

Dr. Alexander Omelyanchik

Physical Chemistry of Nanoparticles

2 semester | 4 CP | Exam

Università Di Genova, Genova, Italy

Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia

The purpose of studying the discipline “Physical Chemistry of Nanoparticles” is to master students knowledge of the physical and chemical properties of magnetic nanomaterials

Introduction

Magnetism in condensed Matter: On overview (part 1)

Magnetic anisotropy at the nanoscale

Finite size effect in magnetic nanomaterials

Superparamagnetism

Characterization of Magnetic Nanomaterials

Magnetism in Thins Films

Solid State Chemistry: on overview

Design of Magnetic nanoarchitectures

Physical Synthesis of magnetic nanomaterials

Chemical Synthesis of Spherical and anisomeric nanomaterials

Sol-Gel Methods

Thermal decomposition methods

Functionalization of Magnetic Nanomaterials

Dr. Sergei Golishev

Microscopy: Method of Micro and Nanoscale Visualization

2 semester | 4 CP | Credit with points

Lomonosov MSU, Moscow, Russia

The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the basic physical principles underlying the functioning of light and electron microscopes, the possibilities and limitations of devices of various types and classes, and also to teach students basic techniques for preparing samples for research and working with light and electron microscopes.
Note: The practical part concentrates on working with biological objects.
The objectives of the training within the framework of the course “Microscopy: methods of visualization on a micro- and nano-scale” are:
– familiarization of students studying the physical principles of the operation of optical instruments using the example of a microscope and with limitations on the capabilities of devices of this type imposed by fundamental laws;
– clarification and demonstration of the implementation of these theoretical principles in the design of microscopes of various types;
– acquisition by students of skills of manipulations with biological objects (cells) for the purpose of conducting microscopic studies.

Introduction, historical background and the basics of optics.

The eye, as an optical system and the resolution of optical systems.

Schematic diagram of the microscope.

Generation of contrast in light microscopy and preparation of samples for operation in transmitted light.

Fluorescent methods of microscopic research in biology.

Laser scanning confocal microscope.

Overcoming the diffraction limit in optical microscopy.

Electron microscopy.

Scanning electron microscope.

Preparation of a biological sample for electron microscopy.

Dr. Inna Rakova

English

1 semester | 3 CP | Credit

Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia

The learning objective of the course «English language» is to develop communicative competences, develop skills in applying the processes of Working Scientifically, the idiomatic English associated with such communication, critical listening skills for professional contexts. Basic communicative competences in the chosen foreign language include:

Сommunicative competence – developing communicative skills through speaking, listening, reading and writing in communicative scenarios and topics chosen for the course.

Language competence – learning new language units (orthographic, phonetic, lexical, grammar) related to communicative scenarios and topics of the course.

Learning about language phenomena in the foreign language, about various ways of expressing ideas using the native and foreign languages.

Socio-cultural competence – introducing students to the culture, traditions and realia of the country whose language they are learning.

Developing skills of presenting their country and its culture when communicating with foreigners.

Cognitive competence – developing general and special academic skills; familiarizing students with available ways of autonomous learning of a foreign language and culture, ICT included

Dr. Shanawer Niaz

Dr. Valerian Yurov

Advanced Scientific Methods. Theory

1 semester | 5 CP | Credit with points

University of Sargodha, Pakistan

Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia

The purpose of studying the discipline “Modern scientific methods. Theory “is the mastering of modern mathematical tools for solving real physical problems, the ability to use the latest mathematical methods and the foundations of mathematical modeling in professional activity.

Introduction to mathematical software packages: Maxima, Maple, Mathematica.

Solving the problems of mathematical analysis with the use of mathematical software packages.

Investigation of the functions of one and several variables in mathematical software packages.

Working with matrices and systems of algebraic equations using mathematical software packages.

The solution of ordinary linear differential equations by means of mathematical software packages.

The solution of differential equations by the method of expansion in different bases. Fourier transform and partial differential equations

Special functions of mathematical software packages

Dr. Christina Gritsenko

Dr. Alexander Omelyanchik

Dr. Victor Belyaev

Dr. Andrei Zyubin

Dr. Kirill Sobolev

Dr. Alexey Grunin

Advanced Scientific Methods. Experiment

1 semester | 5 CP | Credit with points

Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia

The purpose of studying the discipline “Modern scientific methods. Experiment “is the mastery of students with a modern apparatus of mathematical analysis for solving physical problems and for its further use by other disciplines of natural science content.

Investigation of the magnetic properties of thin films on a vibration magnetometer Lakeshore 7400 System.

Measurement of the Curie temperature of powder samples based on Fe using a differential scanning calorimeter NETZSCH 204 F1 Phoenix.

Sputtering nanometer thin films on the magnetron sputtering unit ORION-8-UHV (AJA International).

Study of Heusler alloys with shape memory in a thermogravimetric analysis unit NETZSCH TG 209 F3 Tarsus.

Studies of thin plates on the apparatus for measuring the magnetocaloric effect.

The method of small angular rotation for measuring the magnetostriction of microwires based on the FeCo alloy.

Investigation of the Kerr effect in samples of ferromagnetic thin films.

Technologies of ion plasma deposition for creating micro-coatings.

Investigation of thin films with exchange bias on a scanning probe microscope JSPM-4610A (JEOL, Japan).

Scanning electron microscope device JSM-6390LV (JEOL, Japan).

Advantages and disadvantages of studies of thin films on the automated scanning probe microscope SmartSPM (Aist-NT, Russia).

Kinds of techniques of spent experiments on X-ray diffractometer D8 DISCOVER of firm Bruker AXS.

Describe the principle of work on the research complex based on the Auger microanalyzer and the energy dispersive X-ray spectral analyzer JEOL JAMP-9500F.

Raman spectroscopy. Fundamental basics.

Analysis of organic compounds using combination Raman spectroscopy.

Micro-Raman spectroscopy.

Identification of unknown material on the Raman spectrometer.

Determination of geometrical parameters of a punch and a flat X-ray lens using an electron microscope.

Determination of the geometric parameters of the lens using an optical microscope.

Analysis of disperse systems using an optical microscope.

Dr. Mikhail Vereshagin

Modern Computational Techniques

1 semester | 3 CP | Credit

Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia

The aim of this course is to give students an introduction to the uses of computer languages in the analysis of contemporary scientific problems of soft and hard matter materials. The course covers both conceptual areas of converting a problem to be solved into a computer-based solution, and specific aspects of individual languages and the types of problems they are best suited to solve. Emphasis is placed on the importance of structure, documentation, and levels of “user-hostility” of program interface. For each language, the basic syntax and structure of the language is covered with examples drawn from real applications. The major toolboxes and libraries, interfacing techniques and platform specific issues are also addressed. No prior programming experience is required.

Computer algebra systems (CAS)

Maxima. General Structure. Data types. Basic operations.

MathLab. General structure. Data types.Basic operations.

Maple. General structure. Basic types. Basic rules.

Maple. Manipulation and simplification of expressions.

Maple. Solving ordinary differential equations

Maple. Solving Partial Differential Equations.

Python. Getting Started.

Python. NumPy library.

Python. SciPy library. Integrating and differentiation.

Python.Visualization. Mathplotlib Library.

Python. SymPy library.

Dr. Vladimir Komanicky

Nanotechnology
(Selected Chapters in Nanotechnology)

1 semester | 4 CP | Exam

Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia

The goal of the course is to study the methodologies, experimental technologies of manufacturing nanostructures and nano-devices with nanoscale dimensions. Two general approaches (bottom-up and top-down) will be taught.

From macro to nano

Thermodynamics of nanostructures

Kinetics and transport in nanoscale objects

Quantum effects at the nanoscale

Intermolecular interactions and self-assembly

Methods for characterizing nanomaterials

Surface study and imaging techniques

Functional Nanomaterials

Dr. Christina Gritsenko

Functional Nanomaterials Application

1 semester | 4 CP | Credit

Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia

The purpose of the study of the discipline “Functional Nanomaterials Application” is to develop students’ knowledge in the field of materials’ properties at nanoscale, as well as technological methods for production, characterization, functionalization and investigation of nanomaterials.

Nanolayers

Carbon Nanotubes (CNT) and Polymer Composites

Printable Metal, Nanoparticle Inks

Magnetic nanostructures: from synthesis to practical applications

Manipulation of micro/nanoscale objects

Nanosensors

Nanoporous and nanocage materials

Dr. Andrey Zyubin

Dr. Victor Belyaev

Selected Chapters in Opthics and Photonics

1 semester | 4 CP | Exam

Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia

The course of «Selected chapters in optics and photonics» presents the physical ideas of semiconductor band structure, electron interband transition accompanied by quasiparticles interactions (phonons, excitons), experimental techniques and basic elements for study these effects. This course includes materials necessary to present all described physics phenomena.

Photonics of bulk semiconductor crystals

Low-Dimension Photonics of Semiconductor Systems

Elements of semiconductor optoelectronics

Spectral methods for the study of matter

Prof., Dr. Michail Dorokhin

Selected Chapters in Condensed Matter Physics

1 semester | 3 CP | Exam

Lobachevsky University, Faculty of Physics, Nizhnij Novgorod, Russia

The goal of the course is to study the theoretical and experimental methodologies and experimental technologies of condensed matter physics. An understanding of the different properties of metals, semiconductors and insulators will developed. The physical and chemical origins of material properties of the most technologically important materials being utilized and developed by scientists and engineers will be studied.

Electrical properties of materials

Thermal properties of materials

Magnetoelectric materials

Magnetoelastic materials

Magnetocaloric materials

Elastocaloric and multicaloric effects

Effect of elecrticity and strain

Thermoelectric effect

Александр Владимирович Садовников

к.ф.-м.н., доцент кафедры физики открытых систем Саратовского государственного университета им. Н.Г. Чернышевского

2009 год окончил Саратовский государственный университет (СГУ);
2012 год защитил кандидатскую диссертацию «Линейные и нелинейные волны, распространяющиеся в 1D фотонных и магнонных кристаллах на частотах, близких к границам зон непропускания».
Область научных интересов: Мандельштам-Бриллюэновская спектроскопия, спиновые волны, магнитные микро- и наноструктуры, микромагнитное моделирование, стрейнтроника, тонкие магнитные пленки с межфазным взаимодействием Дзялошинского – Мория

Dr. Grzegorz Kwiatkowski

Postdoc
Science Institute
University of Iceland

Dr. Grzegorz Kwiatkowski obtained his PhD from the Faculty of Applied Physics and Mathematics at the Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland and joined the physics department of the Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland in 2014. He joined then Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Russia in 2016 as Leading Researcher. In 2018 he begun a postdoctoral fellowship at the Science Institute of the University of Iceland in Reykjavík, Iceland where he works up to now.

Кон Игорь Игоревич
Младший научный сотрудник НОЦ «Фундаментальная и прикладная фотоника. Нанофотоника»
Защитился в ИФМиТ БФУ им. Канта по магистерской программе физика конденсированного состояния. На данный момент обучается на 2 курсе аспирантуры по направлению физика и астрономия.
Область научных интересов: математическое моделирование, наноплазмоника, квантовая химия.

Dr. Shanawer Niaz
Assistant Professor/ Coordinator Department of Physics
University of Sargodha, Sub-campus Bhakkar, Pakistan

Dr. Shanawer Niaz obtained his PhD from the Molecular Engineering Laboratory (MOLENG) at the University of Patras, Greece and joined the physics department of the University of Sargodha, Pakistan in 2014. Prior to the PhD, he was Lecturer at the same university from 2007 till the beginning of 2010. He moved then Bilkent University, Turkey for postdoctoral fellowship where he finished a research project funded by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) in 2016. He then joined IKBFU, Russia in 2017 as Leading Researcher. Dr. Shanawer does research in Nanotechnology, Theoretical Chemistry and Quantum Physics.

Верещагин Михаил Дмитриевич
доцент БФУ им. Канта, PhD, преподаватель теоретической механики и механики сплошных сред

Закончил физический факультет БФУ им. Канта, защитился в университете Зелена Гура по специальности физика / астрономия,
является членом комиссии Калининградской области по ЕГЭ и олимпиадам по физике.
Является преподавателем таких предметов как Теоретическая механика и механика сплошных сред, Термодинамика и статистическая физика, также множества курсов по программированию на различных языках.
Область научных интересов: магнитные явления (микропровода), математическая физика, теоретическая механика, численные методы, программирование

Юрий Дмитриевич Фомин,
ведущий научный сотрудник, Институт физики высоких давлений им. Л.Ф. Верещагина РАН

2007 закончил МФТИ, кафедра конденсированного состояния вещества в экстремальных условиях;
2009 защитил кандидатскую диссертацию на тему «Фазовая диаграмма коллапсирующих сфер»;
2011 PostDoc в Университете Клермон-Феррона, Франция; 2012 PostDoc в Университете Любляны, Словения, моделирование ионных жидкостей методами молекулярной динамики;
2016 защитил докторскую диссертацию на тему «Компьютерное моделирование аномального поведения жидкостей».

Область научных интересов: компьютерное моделирование жидкостей, газов и кристаллов, исследование фазовых переходов, свойств сверхкритических жидкостей, низкоразмерных систем.

At the beginning of July, 6 members of REC «Smart Materials and Biomedical Applications» took part in the XXIV International Conference «New in Magnetism and Magnetic Materials» (https://lomonosov-msu.ru/rus/event/6546/ ). The conference was held online from 1th to 8th of July.

Master student Valeria Kolesnikova gave an oral talk «Micromagnetic structure and magnetic properties of ferromagnetic microwires». Master student Valery Savin presented results of his research «Investigation of accelerated motion of domain wall in a bistable ferromagnetic microwire 1st». Prof. S. B. Leble gave also an oral talk «Influence of microwire inhomogeneities on a head-to-head domain wall dynamics 2nd». PhD student Kirill Sobolev presented his work «Investigation of magnetic properties of MAX-phases in (Cr1-xMnx)2AlC system before and after sample purification via the chemical etching». PhD student Alyona Litvinova gave an oral talk on her research “Investigation of magnetostriction properties of amorphous ferromagnetic microwires in a glass shell”. In the section «Biomagnetism», bachelor student Zoya Grigorieva spoke about a new technique for diagnosing Crohn’s disease using ferromagnetic nanoparticles.

Tatiana Murzina

Academic degree: Doctor of Physics and Mathematics. sciences
Position: Professor, Moscow State University Lomonosov
Phone: 939-36-69
Fax: 939-11-04
Email: mur@shg.ru
Internet page: http://www.shg.ru/
Scientific interests:
Nonlinear optics of surfaces, buried interfaces, nanostructures and low-dimensional systems;
Surface-enhanced second harmonic generation;
Nonlinear magnetooptics in thin magnetic films and magnetic nanostructures;
Nonlinear optics and phase transitions in Langmuir-Blodgett films;
Hyper-Rayleigh scattering in thin inhomogeneous films;
Nonlinear-optical readout of optical memories

Sofia Kantorovich

Date and place of birth; Nationality: 27.May.1980 in Sverdlovsk; Russian

ORCID-ID: 0000-0001-5700-7009, full list of publications on webpage:
Webpage: https://dsm.univie.ac.at e-mail: sofia.kantorovich@univie.ac.a
.) Assoc. Professor at the Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna
.) Deputy Head of the research platform MMM Mathematics-Magnetism-Materials, University of Vienna
.) Assoc. Professor at Ural Federal University, www.urfu.ru
b) HIGHER EDUCATION:
1997 – 2001 Studies of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the Ural Federal University
Bachelor thesis Density functional theory for bidisperse ferrofluid. Diploma with distinction.
2001 – 2003 Studies of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the Ural Federal University
Master thesis Microstructural properties of ferrofluid. Diploma with distinction.
2003 – 2004 Ph.D.-student in Physics of Magnetism at Ural State University/Moscow State University
Ph.D. thesis Chain aggregates in polydisperse magnetic fluids.
May. 2011 Habilitation to Privatdozent in Physics, Ural Federal University
July. 2015 Habilitation in Physics, University of Vienna
Thesis Bridging Scales in Dipolar Soft Matter
May. 2019 Habilitation to Professor in Physics, Ural Federal University
Languages : Russian (native), English (fluent), German (fluent), Italian (fluent), French (intermediate)
c) APPOINTMENTS/POSITIONS:
2000 – 2009 Postdoctoral fellow, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany;
Researcher, lecture, senior researcher, associate professor, Ural State University, Ekaterinburg, Russia;
2009 – 2012 Humboldt Fellow at the Institute for Computational Physics, Stuttgart, Germany;
2012 – 2013 Senior researcher, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy.
2013 – 2016 Senior researcher, START-Project Leader, University of Vienna, Austria.
2016 – 2017 Tenure track Associate professor, University of Vienna, Austria
2011 – present time Associate Professor Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Department of Theoretical Physics, Ural Federal University, Russia.
2017 – present time Associate Professor Faculty of Physics, Computational Physics, University of Vienna, Austria.
2019 – present time Vice-president of Wolfgang-Pauli-Institute/University of Vienna, Austria.
d) RESEARCH FIELDS: Magnetic Soft Matter (magnetic fluids, magnetic gels, capped magnetic colloids, anisotropic magnetic particles, Janus particles), Charged Colloids (ionic liquids, polyelectrolytes), Self-Assembly in Nanostructured Soft Matter Systems, Active Matter; Coarse-grained Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations + Classical Density functional Theory + Mean field theories for (dynamic) magnetic response.

Andrey A. Fedyanin

PhD, Doctor of Science (Habil.), Full Professor, Faculty of Physics,

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Prof. Andrey Fedyanin received his MSc degree in Physics in 1996, PhD degree in Physics in 1997 and Doctor of Science degree (Habilitation) in 2009 from the Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia.

Prof. Fedyanin is Head of the Laboratory of Nanophotonics & Metamaterials and Chair of Nanophotonics Department at Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University.

His main research activities focus on nanophotonics, nano-optics and nonlinear optics of different types of nanostructures including metamaterials, in particular, on magnetoplasmonics in nanostructures, photonic crystals and metamaterials, nanoplasmonics in nanostructures and metamaterials, nanophotonics in optical tweezers, near-field optical studies of plasmonic nanostructures and metamaterials, and ultrafast dynamics of optical response of nanostructures, photonic crystals and metamaterials.

Davide Peddis

Davide Peddis (DP) graduated magna cum laude in Physical Chemistry (2003) and obtained his PhD in Physical Chemistry (2007) at the University of Cagliari. Now DP is Associate Professor of Physical chemistry @ University of Genova and associate researcher at CNR-ISM. DP has extensive international experience: he was visiting professor at the Le Mans University Extended Guest Lecturer at the Uppsala University and visiting scholar at the University of Delaware. Research activity of DP is developed in the framework of Solid State Physical-Chemistry and Condensed Matter Physics, studying the relationship between physical properties, crystalline structures, and morphological features of magnetic nano–hetero-structures (nanoparticles, particles embedded in matrix, core shell structures, hollow nanoparticles, anisometric particles). Particular attention has been devoted to the investigation of fundamental properties of magnetic nanoparticles (static and dynamical properties) with particular interest in materials for applications in biomedicine (MRI, drug delivery, hyperthermia), catalysis, and energy field (permanent magnets, hydrogen production). DP research activity is presented in over 140 peer reviewed papers (h-index/Cit.: 32/3430 – Google Scholar, 31/2744- Scopus) and 5 book chapter in the period 2006-2020. He was co-editor of a book titled “New Trends of Nanoparticles Magnetism” (Springer, 2021). DP over 250 communications, including invited (58 personally given) to national / international conferences ad recognized scientific institution. DP has been co- supervisor 5 PhD student, 3 post-docs, 5 researchers in formation and he was also appointed for three international PhD committee. Davide Peddis has been granted over 1 milion of euro to date, coming for national and EU project.

Professor Des Mapps is Professor Emeritus at the University of Plymouth, UK. As of April 2021, he has published 163 papers in International research journals, 13 patents, and 77 major reports for the industry. He has presented 128 papers in international research conferences across the world and 70 papers at other national events, mainly in the UK. He has supervised 27 PhDs. He specializes in magnetic sensors, magnetic computer memories, nanotechnology, and bio-magnetism. He has been External Examiner for MSc courses and PhDs in many UK Universities. He is a nominator for the Japan Prize.

Polina Khapaeva is the director for the development of SCAMT Institute (ITMO University, Saint Petersburg, Russia).
She has received a specialist degree in the economy at the Northern (Arctic) Federal University and a BSc degree in circumpolar studies at the University of the Arctic.
After more than 5 years in the HR sphere and Youth work, in 2017 she joined the SCAMT team for leading HR, PR, events, and international activities.
Since 2019 she is teaching Public speaking and presentation skills in the frame of the International Research Management Essentials course. She is also a trainer of the European pool of trainers AEGEE-Academy.

Alexandr Vinogradov

Associate professor Alexandr V. Vinogradov is the Head of the Biochemistry Cluster and the Vise-head of the Laboratory of Solution Chemistry of Advanced Materials&Technologies at ITMO University, St. Petersburg.
Alexandr Vinogradov was born in 1985, in 2007 he graduated from Ivanovo State University of Chemistry and Technology, Russia, and after that he was a Lecturer and a Researcher in this University. He defended PhD degree in Inorganic Chemistry with thesis title “Photoactive nanostructured titania-based materials”. In 2008-2009 he educated at The Presidential Program of training manager in Stuttgart, Germany. In 2013-2015 he performed two scientific projects and was a Visiting professor in Liepzig University, Germany. In 2019 he became a Doctor of Sciences (habilitation degree).
Dr. Vinogradov published more than 80 articles in refereed journals and 4 Monographs. His research interests lie in field of synthesis and development of the new hybrids and composite, room-temperature synthesis and crystal growth of new MOFs, low-temperature sol-gel synthesis, multilayer structures, prepared by soft chemistry approach, porous materials, nanoengineering, inkjet printing of optical nanostructures, optically active heterostructures, sol-gel materials with extremely low and high refractive indexes.

Sergei Guriev

Prof. Sergei Guriev, born in 1971, graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) with the Master of Science Summa Cum Laude. In 1994 he received Ph.D. (Candidate of Science) Degree in Physics and Mathematics, with the thesis title “Some Mathematical Models of Saving and Investment”. In 2002 Sergei Guriev became a Doctor of Science in Economics (habilitation degree).
He was a Lecturer at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow State University, and the New Economic School as well as a Senior Research Fellow at the Computing Center of Russian Academy of Science. In 1997-98 Sergei Guriev was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Economics of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 2003-2004 – Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics in Princeton University.
For 15 years he was on the tenure-track and tenured faculty of the New Economic School, Moscow, including serving as the School’s Rector from 2004 till 2013. In 2016-2019 he was the Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Currently, Dr. Guriev is a Professor of Economics and the Director of Graduate Programs in Economics at the Department of Economics of Sciences Po, Paris.
He is also a Research Fellow and the Leader of the Research and Policy Network on Populism at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, London. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the International Economic Association, a Global Member of the Trilateral Commission and an Ordinary Member of the Academia Europaea.
His research interests include political economics, economics of development and transition, contract theory, corporate governance, labor mobility. He has published more than 40 research articles in international academic journals and 15 book chapters. His book “Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century” (co-authored with Daniel Triesman) is forthcoming in the Princeton University Press in the Spring 2022.

María del Puerto Morales

María del Puerto Morales is Professor at the Institute of Material Science in Madrid (ICMM/CSIC), Spain since 2018. She got her degree in Chemistry by the University of Salamanca and her PhD in Material Science from the Madrid Autonomous University in 1993. From 1994 to 1996, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Systems in the University of Wales (UK).
She has authored several book chapters (12), patents (5) and more than 260 articles (h=60, >14.500 citations) and has been the principal investigator from the CSIC in two European-funded research projects in the 7FP (Multifun and NanoMag) and now, she is CSIC IP in MSCA-RISE-2020, NESTOR (2021-2024) and is participating in the FET-OPEN, HOTZYMES 2019-2021.
Her research activities are focused on the area of nanotechnology, in particular in the synthesis and characterization of magnetic nanoparticles, including the mechanism of particle formation, surface modification and its performance in biomedical applications such as biomolecule separation, NMR imaging, drug delivery and hyperthermia, and also in catalysis and environmental remediation.

Francesco Pineider

Francesco Pineider received his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Florence in 2009 with a thesis on the properties of single molecule magnet monolayers over gold surfaces under the supervision of Prof. Roberta Sessoli. He spent his post-doc years between the University of Florence and the University of Padua/CNR working in the emerging field of magnetoplasmonics, the interaction between magnetic materials with plasmonic nanostructures.

Francesco has been awarded with several early career awards, among which the European Award for Doctoral Thesis on Molecular Magnetism (2010) from the European Institute of Molecular Magnetism for his PhD thesis work and the NEST award for Nanoscience (2014) from Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa for his work on magnetoplasmonics.

He is currently asociate professor at the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry at the University of Pisa.

Roberto Zysler

Dr. Roberto Daniel Zysler is Senior Researcher at CONICET (Argentina) and Professor at the Balseiro Institute (National University of Cuyo), Argentina.
He obtained his Bachelor of Physics degree from the Balseiro Institute in 1985 and in 1990 he obtained the degree of Doctor of Physics from the Balseiro Institute, basing his Thesis on Solid Magnetism. In 1992 and 1993 he carried out a postdoctoral stay in Rome, Italy, a fellow of the European Community and CONICET. During the post-doctorate, he conducted studies on magnetic nanoparticle systems and systems related to HTc superconductors. In 1994, he joined the Magnetic Resonances Laboratory of the “Centro Atómico Bariloche” as Researcher of Conicet and professor at the Balseiro Institute. From this moment, he has been working on the study of magnetic nanoparticle systems and, in parallel, since 2005 on the applications of these nanoparticles in medicine and biology.
He has trained human resources by the advisor of degree projects, Master’s theses, Doctoral (in Physics, Engineering and Medicine), and researchers from different disciplines. He has published more than 160 papers in international journals, 12 book chapters and 2 articles for broad public, 4 patents on the use of magnetic nanoparticles in bio-medicine, presented 99 papers at national congresses and another 184 at international congresses. He is a founding partner of 2 companies, Natec SRL on diagnostic systems using nanoparticles and biological agents, and Lizys SA which produces functionalized magnetic nanoparticles and nanotechnological developments, being president of the latter.

Manuel Vázquez

Prof. Manuel Vázquez is a head of the Group on “Nanomagnetism and Magnetization Processes” Institute of Materials Science of Madrid Spanish National Council for Research, CSIC
Main Achievements:
– Distinguished Services Award (2021) IEEE Magnetics Society
– Invited Professor to Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil (2019)
– President IEEE Magnetic Society (2017-8)
– Magnetism Award (S.Velayos) for International promotion of Spain Magnetism (2017)
– Invited Visiting Professor to Hubei University, Wuhan, China (2016)
– International Head “Magnetic Sensors Lab.”, Urals Fed. Un., Ekaterinburg, Rusia (2016-)
– Program Committee Chair, ICM, Barcelona (2015)
– Secretary Magnetism Commission, IUPAP (2011-4)
– Founder of IEEE Magnetics Society Spain Chapter (2007)
– Co-founder (2002) and President of Spanish Club of Magnetism (2006-8)
– Manager Strategic Action Nanoscience & Nanotechn. (Spain Ministry Sci. & Techn., 2004-9)
– Founder of the Group “Nanomagnetism and Magnetization Processes” at ICMM/CSIC (2001)
– Director Laboratory, Instituto de Magnetismo Aplicado, UCM-RENFE-CSIC, 1992-2000
– Professor of Research (Inst. Materials Science at Madrid, CSIC, from 1996)
– Invited Visiting Researcher (Univ. Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 1996)
– Invited Visiting Researcher (Univ. Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1989)
– NATO Invited Researcher (Techn. Univ. Denmark, Copenhague, 1985)
– Alexander von Humboldt Post-doctoral Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute, Stuttgart, 1981-3

Rastislav Varga

Rastislav Varga is a Head of Centre of Progressive Materials at TIP UPJS. He deals mainly with production and characterization of soft magnetic materials, mainly in the shape thin wires. He is also the founder and president of BOD of RVmagnetics a.s. that deals with the development of sensors and actuators based on thin magnetic wires.

Kalliopi Trohidou

Dr Κ. Trohidou is Director of Research at the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology of NCSR “Demokritos” in Athens, Greece. She is head of the Computational Nanostructured materials Group and the research laboratory.
Her research interests are at the area of the theoretical Studies and Computational Modeling of nanostructured materials and include studies of systems of magnetic
nanoparticles for industrial, biomedical and energy applications. She is author of more than 120 scientific articles 8 chapters in books and editor of a book and member of the
organising and scientific committee for more than 20 International Conferences. She has been involved as partner and co-ordinator in several EU and other national and international projects. She has many International collaborations in particular with partners from the EU countries.

Giulia Serrano

Giulia Serrano is a material scientist working on molecular and inorganic nanostructures on surfaces for the development of innovative functional materials for spintronics and sensing technologies.
She received Bachelor and Master Degrees in Material Science at the “Tor Vergata” University of Rome (Italy) investigating self-assembling and electron confinement properties of silicon nanostructures on metal surfaces by low-temperature STM. She carried out the Ph.D. in Physics, at the at the “Tor Vergata” University of Rome, developing a seminal research activity on the study of a wide-band gap semiconductor in liquid environment. She has been post-doc researcher at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz working on radio frequency-STS (rf-STS) technique for the study of magnetic systems and then she moved as senior post-doc to the Laboratory of Molecular Magnetism (LA.M.M.) at the Department of Chemistry “Ugo Schiff” of the University of Florence (Italy) investigating magnetic nano-assemblies of SMMs and organic molecules with spin functionalities on surfaces by STM, photoemission spectroscopies and synchrotron radiation. Recently she moved to the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Florence, starting an independent research activity focused on the investigation and control of photo-chemical reaction at surfaces. She recently developed new frontiers for sensing technologies by discovering a novel mechanism to evaluate the superconducting state of a surface using molecular magnetization.

Rudolf Schaefer

Rudolf Schaefer studied Materials Science and received the Ph.D. in Engineering at Erlangen-University in 1990. After Postdoc stays at IBM Research in Yorktown Heights and Forschungszentrum Juelich he moved to IFW Dresden in 1993. In 2011, R. Schaefer was appointed adjunct professor for Magnetic Materials at TU Dresden. He became Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Magnetics Society in 2013 and currently chairs the Conference Executive Committee of the Society. His interest areas span magnetic materials with focus on magnetic microstructures. He has published more than 200 technical articles in peer-reviewed journals, including book chapters and 2 monographs

Alexandr Sadovnikov

Alexandr Sadovnikov was born in Russia in 1987. He graduated from Saratov State University (SSU) in 2009 and has got his PhD in 2012.
Now he has a position of Assistant Professor in Institute of Physics of SSU. He is a head of the Laboratiry of Magnetic metamaterials, SSU. His research interests are mainly focused on:
– Brillouin spectroscopy and space/time resolved measurements of dynamical magnetic processes in multilayer magnetic films and magnonic structures
– Design and study of tunable spin-wave propagation in magnonic networks and magnonic crystals
– Study of spin waves in irregular and layered magnetic structures toward applications for magnonic logic
– Micromagnetic modelling of spin waves excitation and propagation
– Spin-wave coupling in magnetic structures: linear and nonlinear dynamics
– Straintronics: spin-wave tunability within multiferroic composites
– Spin wave excitation through spin polarized current in multilayer magnetic structures
– Topological stabilization of skyrmions in magnetic thin films with the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction.

Yuriy Raikher

Yuriy Raikher, graduated from Perm State University in 1971, obtained there M.Sci., Ph.D., and Dr. Sci. Hab. Since 1971 works at Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics, Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (Perm, Russia). In 1991 became Head of Laboratory, now Laboratory of Physics and Mechanics of Soft Matter at ICMM; beginning 2013 also Professor (part-time) of Department of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at Ural Federal University (Ekaterinburg, Russia).
Main fields of research: theoretical studies of statistical thermodynamics and kinetics of magnetic fine particles and composite materials based on such: ordinary and viscoelastic magnetic fluids, ferrogels, nanoparticle doped liquid crystals, soft magnetic elastomers, etc. About 210 peer-reviewed articles on magnetic relaxation and resonances in these media, their optics and rheology; co-author of Burylov-Raikher model in theory of ferronematic suspensions. At present, the research scope comprises, in particular, magnetomechanics of elastomeric micro- and nanocomposites; magnetodynamics of viscoelastic ferrofluids and ferrogels.
Collaborations with Technical Universities of Dresden and Ilmenau (Germany). Member of the Board on Physics of Condensed Matter of Russian Academy of Sciences, Member of International Steering Committee on Magnetic Fluids.

Maxim Nikitin

Dr. Maxim Nikitin heads the Nanobiotechnology Laboratory at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Moscow, Russia) and Nanobiomedicine Department at the Sirius University of Science and Technology (Sirius, Russia). He received his Master’s degree with Honors from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) and Ph.D. degree from Russian Academy of Sciences. Dr. M. Nikitin invented logic-gated and biocomputing structures for targeted drug delivery, cell sorting and labeling; developed innovative label-free optical bio- and chemical sensors; ultra-sensitive methods for detection of magnetic nanoparticles in vivo for different theranostic applications, investigated pharmacokinetics, toxicity, biotransformation of nanoagents. Dr. M. Nikitin is the author of more than 65 papers published in high-ranking peer-reviewed journals and 12 patents. In 2018, Dr. M. Nikitin was honored with the highest scientific award for young Russian scientists by the President of Russian Federation. He also won the second prizes at the worldwide scientific contest Falling Walls Lab 2016 (Berlin, Germany) and Biosensors & Bioelectronics Award (Goteborg, Sweden); Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Technovation Cup’2009 and a few other scientific prizes. Since 2020, Dr. M. Nikitin is the member of the Presidium of the Russian Presidential Council for Science and Education.

Giuseppe Muscas

Giuseppe Muscas is a researcher and docent at the Physics Department of Cagliari University. He took a Master’s Degree in Material Science in 2011 at the University of Cagliari (Italy). In 2015, he took an international Ph.D. in Physics (Doctor Europaeus) at Cagliari University and in collaboration with Uppsala University (Sweden). His activity focused on synthesizing and studying magnetic nanoparticle-based materials and nanocomposites. In the same year, he joined the Materials Physics Division of Uppsala University as Postdoctoral Researcher. He expanded his knowledge on the preparation and characterization of magnetic thin films, in particular, amorphous alloys, artificial multi-phase, and multilayer systems. Since 2017, he worked as a Researcher in the same group, studying flexible magnetic nanostructures for spintronic applications. In 2019, he went back to Cagliari University, with the support of the PON-AIM project, taking a Researcher position to lead the development of magnetic nanoparticle-based materials for thermoelectric applications. His research interest is now focused on developing nanostructured magnetic materials in different forms and on the optimization of their combination to realize artificial materials.

Liudmila Makarova

Dr. L.A.Makarova is an assistant professor at Lomonosov Moscow State University, she is working in the scientific group under the supervision of Prof. N.S. Perov. She has been doing research in the field of magnetic elastomers since 2013 and received her Ph.D. in 2018. For the dissertation, new materials based on elastomers with multiferroic properties were first developed. Experimental work began to be supplemented by work on the numerical modeling of their properties. Dr. L. Makarova actively collaborate with various scientific groups.
Her field of interests covers such studies as a study of a new single-phase method of the synthesis of biocompatible composites with magnetic nanoparticles for theranostics (drug delivery, diagnostics, therapy), a new method of retinal engraftment using a magnetic seal based on a biocompatible magnetic elastomer and others. Another area of her work is the development and research of layered composites, in which one layer is a polymer with ferroelectric properties, the second is a layer of a magnetic elastomer. Such laminated composites exhibit gigantic values of the induced voltage, are flexible and in the future may become the base for universal sensors and converters of electromagnetic energy and energy of mechanical vibrations.
Now she researches with an emphasis on both engineering and biomedical applications of new multiferroic materials. Her work has been repeatedly supported by the RFBR, and she was also the owner of the MSU Scholarship for Young Scientists (2019-2020). Concurrently, Dr. Makarova works at the IKBFU, where her ideas of three-component multiferroics based on polymer and fine magnetic and ferroelectric particles were continued in the study of the possibility of their use for differentiation of stem cells.

Alberto López-Ortega

Dr.Alberto López-Ortega graduated in Chemical Sciences (2007) at the University of Barcelona (Spain) and doctorated in Materials Science (2012) at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (Spain). Subsequently, he carried out two postdoctoral stays (Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Italy and CIC nanoGUNE, Spain) of three years duration each. For a year and a half, he worked as an assistant professor at the University of Castilla-La Mancha and nowadays, he is currently an assistant professor at the Public University of Navarre and the Institute of Advanced Materials and Mathematics.
During this period, he has been awarded with Spanish doctoral and postdoctoral scholarships, distinguished with the award for the best doctoral thesis by the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2012), participates in 9 research projects and has several proposals accepted as IP in large-scale facilities.
He has (co) author of 40 articles in international peer-reviewed journals and has made 32 communications in international conferences.
His research lines are focused into the development of new nanostructured magnetic materials to address current technological requirements, highlighting both the study of the mechanisms that govern their growth process and their fundamental properties. Specifically, his research lines address:
I) the development of new rare earth-free permanent magnets,
II) the study of the magnetic coupling phenomena in multicomponent systems,
III) the optical and magneto-plasmonic coupling in hybrid nanoparticles and 2D meta-structures,
IV) the design of novel massive materials formed by 2D and 3D assembly of nanoparticles.

Sara Laureti

Sara Laureti is graduated in Chemistry (110/110 cum laude) and she has got a PhD in Material Science at University of Rome “La Sapienza” (2007) with a thesis titled “Magnetic anisotropy in Co-based thin films”, the research activity being carried out at ISM-CNR where she’s currently working as Permanent Researcher. Since the beginning of her scientific career her work was devoted to the study of magnetic nanomaterials in form of thin films and multilayers, patterned systems, nanoparticles and nanocomposite for important technological applications. In particular, she was involved in a many National and European Projects and she was the coordinator of a national FIRB project entitled “Tailoring the magnetic anisotropy of nanostructures for enhancing the magnetic stability of magnetoresistive devices” and was the principal investigator of a 2-years BAG project at the EXAFS beamline (LISA, ESRF, Grenoble) titled “Correlation between atomic ordering and magnetic properties in binary magnetic alloys”. She is author of more than 40 papers on ISI journals focused of surface and interface effects in thin films and nanoparticles; size effect in exchange coupled systems; spin valves structures for application in magnetoresistive devices; structural phase transitions in ferromagnetic alloys.

Òscar Iglesias

Òscar Iglesias graduated in Theoretical Physics (1990) and obtained his Ph. D. in Physics (2002) at the University of Barcelona after stays at the City University of NY (E. Chudnovsky) and at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (P.C.E. Stamp) where he gained expertise in the theoretical models of magnetism. In between 1991 and 2007 he was Associate Interim Professor at the Dept. of Fundamental Physics of the UB. He is member of the Magnetic Nanomaterials Group since its foundation in 1993. Since 2008, he is Associate Professor at Dept. of Condensed Matter Physics of the UB. His research lines have focused on theoretical and phenomenological models of magnetic materials, but always working in close contact to experimentalists in the field. His expertise has now turned to Monte Carlo and micromagnetic simulations to study finite-size, surface effects, dipolar interactions and exchange bias mainly in nanoparticle systems. His work has focused on the finite-size, surface and dipolar interactions effects in magnetic nanoparticle systems, authoring 4 book chapters on these subjects. His more recent research lines include magnetic nanotubes and magnetic hyperthermia in NP. He is author of a review (JNN 2008), with more than 290 citations, on Exchange Bias effects in NP, a field to which he has contributed in numerous collaborations with other groups of worldwide expertise. He has been visiting professor at the Universities of South Florida (USA), Perpignan (France) and Antioquia (Colombia) and he is member of the RSEF and IEEE Society. He has published around 55 articles cited more than 2700 times and has an H index of 27.

Jérôme Depeyrot

Jérôme Depeyrot is Associate Professor in Condensed Matter Physics at the Institute of Physics, University of Brasília (Brazil). He obtained his PhD in Physics from Paris Diderot University – Paris 7 (France) in 1994. After a first postgraduate experience at the University of São Paulo (Brazil) in 1989-1990, he joined the Complex Fluids Group at University of Brasilia as a Post Doc fellow in 1995. His current research involves the design, synthesis and development of advanced magnetic nanomaterials for energy, environmental, and biological applications; colloids and self assembly; their local structural studies by synchrotron and neutron studies (XRD, XAS, SAXS); the magnetization processes and magnetization dynamics of magnetic nanoparticles assemblies. He has co-authored more than 80 peer-reviewed articles which have received more than 1400 citations.

David Cabrera

Dr David Cabrera is a Research Fellow recently awarded with a prestigious Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship at Keele University, UK. Dr Cabrera pursued his PhD in Madrid under the supervision of Dr Francisco Teran. Here, Dr Cabrera worked on magnetic nanoparticle-mediated magnetic hyperthermia for cancer treatment, with especial focus on engineering novel magnetic characterisation instruments to unveil particularities in the magnetic response of nanoparticles in biological environments. After being awarded his PhD, Dr Cabrera moved to Keele University in the UK to work a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Dr Alan Harper’s group. During this term, he explored the possibility of utilising magnetic hyperthermia technologies in cardiovascular medicine for the aim of improving stroke prognosis. Currently, Dr Cabrera leads a Wellcome Trust funded project in which he strains on developing a magnetic nanoparticle-mediated therapy to provide a safer and more effective treatment for Venous Thromboembolism (VTE), a poorly treated, potentially mortal disease with high world prevalence.
Dr Cabrera’s current research interests are mainly focused in nanomagnetism applied to cardiovascular and oncological medicine. Also, Dr Cabrera shows special interest on the use of AC magnetometry and susceptometry methods for basic research on platelet biology, haematology and general diagnosis.

Gisela Schütz

Gisela Schütz born in 1955, studied physics at the TUM (Technical University of Munich) and finished her diploma with neutron experiments. After her PhD in nuclear physics at the TUM she started research activities in condensed matter investigation with synchrotron radiation at several synchrotron laboratories. She developed new methods of studying magnetic structures and phenomena with polarised x-rays and became a professor at the University of Augsburg in 1993 and received a chair at the Institute for Experimental Physics at the University of Würzburg in 1997. For her scientific work she was awarded with the Otto-Klung Price in 1989 and with the Agilent Technology Award in 2000. Since 2001 she is Director of the department “Modern Magnetic Systems” at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (formerly Max Planck Institute for Metals Research). Her research activities focus on the characterization and synthesis of modern magnetic systems and the development of new experimental methods to study magnetism on the nanometre length and picosecond time scale. Since 2003 she is Honorary Professor at University of Stuttgart.

José Rivas

José Rivas is a Professor of Physics at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. His expertise is related to the preparation and characterization of nanostructured magnetic materials. Based on the research carried out at the USC, Rivas group created a high technology-based Spin Off Company called NANOGAP. The research and entrepreneurial efforts of Prof. Rivas, his collaborators and colleagues over the years have been widely recognized. He was the founding Director (2005-14) and responsible for the implementation of the INL-International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Braga, Portugal. He is an Elected Member of the Royal Galician Academy of Sciences and received the 2018 Salvador Velayos Award, conferred by the Spanish Magnetism Club. J. Rivas is the author of a variety of book chapters, twelve patents and more than four hundred articles.

Burkard Hillebrands

Burkard Hillebrands is full professor of experimental physics at the University of Kaiserslautern. After studies at the University of Cologne and a postdoctoral stay at the Optical Sciences Center in Tucson, Arizona he was associate professor at the University of Karlsruhe in 1994. Since 1995 he is full professor at the University of Kaiserslautern. From 2006 to 2014 he was Vice President for Research, Technology and Innovation of University of Kaiserslautern. From 2016 to 2017 he served as Scientific Director of the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden.
His research field is experimental magnetism, in particular magnonics. He is particularly interested in nonlinear magnonic phenomena, magnonic crystals, magnon gases, magnon condensates and magnonic supercurrent phenomena in view of applications in novel information technologies such as magnon logics.
He currently is president of the European Magnetism Association, and Chair of the of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), Commission C9: Magnetism. He is member, Chair of the Class of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, and Vice President of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz. He is member of the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech). He is IEEE Fellow and APS. In 2005 he was Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Magnetics Society. In 2016 he received an ERC Advanced Grant of the European Commission. He served on the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Magnetics Society and was Honors&Awards Chair. Since 2018, he is Chair and Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Helmholtz Center Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), and also Member of the HZDR Supervisory Board.
He has published more than 400 refereed articles, book contributions, and several patents.

Stefano Carretta

Stefano Carretta is Full Professor of Physics of Matter at the University of Parma and he is currently member of the Scientific Council of the National Interuniversity Consortium of Materials Science and Technology (INSTM). His research activity has covered different areas of Physics of Matter, especially magnetism and quantum information processing. As a general approach, he combined a purely theoretical research, for the understanding and prediction of new physical phenomena, with the design and interpretation of experiments able to highlight such phenomena. The aim of this research was twofold: to study phenomena of interest for fundamental physics, and to design and identify systems suitable for technological applications. This type of approach led him to develop solid international collaborations with both experimental physicists and chemists.
He contributed to put forward some of the first proposals for the use of magnetic molecules as qubits and the first proposal for exploiting molecular nanomagnets as quantum simulators. He has recently shown that molecular nanomagnets can be exploited to define qubit with embedded quantum error correction. His research interests encompass also f electron bulk systems. For instance, he demonstrated the presence of quadrupolar waves in the low-frequency dynamics of UO2.
He is coauthor of about 135 research papers published in international journals.
In 2006 he has been appointed of the “Le Scienze” (the Italian version of Scientific American) medal and of the President of the Italian Republic medal for his research on molecular nanomagnets. In 2011 he has been appointed of the prestigious Olivier Kahn International Award for his contribution to the theory of molecular magnetism.