IFW Dresden

IFW Dresden Leibniz Medal price to Prof. Xavier Obradors for his task as a Scientific Advisory Board of this institution.

This price, that was also award to other members of this organization, was presented during the last SAB meeting, the 10 -11 th October. In the picture (from left to right): Prof. Philippe M. Fauchet, Vanderbilt Univ., Prof. Eberhard Umbach, KIT, Prof. Xavier Obradors Berenguer, ICMAB-CSIC, Prof. Alan Lindsay Greer, Univ. of Cambridge.  

“Hello everyone! My name is Marijn van de Putte and I am a student from the University of Twente in the Netherlands. After completing my Bachelor in Advanced Technology I am now following a Master in Nanotechnology. Here at ICMAB I am doing an internship for this master program and together with Dr. Narcis Mestres I will be doing research into barium manganese nanowires. I am looking forward to work here and enjoy my time here to the fullest!”

  Sebastiaan de Vrieze, master student of Ghent University. From february to june 2016 he has been doing a short stay in “Superconducting Materials and Large Scale Nanostructures” group at ICMAB (in collaboration with UAB) untitled “Synthesis , deposition and characterization of ex-situ nanocomposite YBCO layers containing ZrO₂ and HfO₂ Nanoparticles” under the supervision of Dr. Susagna Ricart. Alejandro Fernández Rodríguez, student of the master “Advanced nanoscience and nanotechnology” at Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB). From January to July 2016 he had been doing his master thesis in “Superconducting Materials and Large Scale Nanostructures” group at ICMAB. The title is “Tuning the electronic structure in high temperature superconducting films” and it was directed by Dr. Anna Palau. Juan Carlos Martin Romano, from Madrid, He is a chemist graduated as of last year. He is currently doing the UAB Master on Advanced Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, which has given me the opportunity to get to know Barcelona. He has been doing his master thesis under the supervision of Dr. Mariona Coll in the group of Superconducting Materials. The theme is the engineering of perovskite materials to be applied in the field of photovoltaic energy.   Isabel García Poncet ,  4th-year-student of Nanocsience and Nanotechnology degree at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.  She has been doing her final degree thesis thesis in the group of Supercondu cting Materials and Nanostructure at Large Scale at ICMAB under the supervision of Dr. Susagna Ricart concerning the synthesis and characterization of YBCO superconductor layers.             Pamela Machado is in her last year of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology degree in the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She has been doing her final degree thesis in the group of Superconducting Materials and Nanostructure at Large Scale under the supervision of Dr. Mariona Coll. She worked with a perovskite ferroelectric material and studied its electrical and optical properties to apply it to photovoltaic devices.

In the beginning of 2016 the group has integrated new members: Jukka Malinen, he comes from Finland and he is joining us as a Lab engineer in instrumentation. His main task here will be LabVIEW-programming. Orjan Artursson, he comes from Sweden and he is Project Engineer. He will be in charge of the installation of the new lab of the group in MATGAS building. Roger Guzman, after a first postdoc in Zaragoza he comes back to the group to work as a postdoc in STEM and EELS characterization of YBCO nanocomposites samples. Flavio Pino, he comes from Italy and he is joining us as a postdoc to work on the inkjet deposition and UV curing of superconducting thick films. Juri Banchewsky, he comes from Germany and he is starting his PhD in the group concerning Vortex pinning studies in YBCO nanocomposites samples.  

title: MULTIFUNCTIONAL NANOSTRUCTURED SUPERCONDUCTORS BY CHEMICAL ROUTES: TOWARDS HIGH CURRENT CONDUCTORS Pablo Cayado Llosa Composition of the jury

• Prof. Pere Roura: Full Professor in the Girona University
• Dr. Anna Palau: Tenured Scientist, ICMAB (CSIC)
• Prof Bernhard Holzapfel: Professor at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT )

L’electrificació de Catalunya  

http://www.itep.kit.edu/english/1059.php Prof. Teresa Puig give a talk about High-temperature superconductors in the WE-Heraeus-Seminar “Superconducting materials on their way from physics to applications” the February 18th at Physikzentrum Bad Honnef  in Germany. The PhD students Laia Soler and Júlia Jarreño participated in the seminar and they presented two posters with their on-going studies on YBCO films by CSD-transient liquid assisted growth.

Today is the First International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a day created by the United Nations to emphasise the importance of women in science and to rise the gender equality in the scientific world. For that, ICMAB women have posed in front of the camera to say SCIENCE! and motivate women and girls join the scientific career.