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Prof. Norbert Marcel Nemes, Full Professor, Department of Materials Physics, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, Director of the High pressure synthesis and Magnetometry laboratories dedicated to provide a wide variety of scientific services to the international research community https://cai.ucm.es/tecnicas-fisicas/magnetometria-criogenia/ He obtained his M.Sc. in Physics at the Roland Eotvos University (ELTE) in Budapest, Hungary in 1997 and his Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA in 2002. He spent two years at the NIST Center for Neutron Research as Research Associate followed by a three year ‘Juan de la Cierva’ fellowship with a Marie Curie reintegration grant at the Institute of Material Science in Madrid, Spain (ICMM/CSIC). In 2008 he moved to the Complutense University of Madrid in Spain with a ‘Ramon y Cajal’ fellowship, where he has been full professor and Director of the Service Laboratory dedicated to High pressure synthesis and Magnetometry since 2022. He is a solid state physicist interested in a wide variety of nanostructured materials with magnetic, superconducting or thermoelectric properties.

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Dr. Isabel Izquierdo-Barba. Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry in Pharmaceutical Sciences. Faculty of Pharmacy. Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) Spain. She obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy (1997) and a PhD in Pharmacy with honours (2002) by UCM, Spain. She has carried out different research stays in University of Cadiz, Pierre at the Marie Curie University (CNRS, France), Stockholm University (Sweden) and Jiao Tong University in Shanghai (China). In 2007, she was awarded a Ramon y Cajal contract (Spanish Ministry of Education and Science) at the UCM. Since 2012, she holds a position as Senior Lecture of Chemistry in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the UCM. Her research focuses on nanomaterials for bone tissue engineering and bone infection. Currently, she has been the coordinator of the master's degree in Biomaterials at UCM. Scientific track: >112 papers ISI in co-authorship (>7,435 citations; h-index 51, WOS) 6 book chapters; 30 Grants, 4 as PI, 2 European grant and 1 as PI (GIOTTO “Active aGelng and Osteoporosis: The next challenge for smarT nanobiOmaterials and 3D thechnologies” (No 814410); 2 patents, 3 PhD Thesis advised (+2 in course). >52 presentations to International Congresses (14 invited). Since 2019, Fellow (Corresponding Academician) in the Spanish Royal Academic of Pharmacy.

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Alvaro Gallo Córdova currently serves as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Materials Science of Madrid (ICMM/CSIC). He graduated with a Chemical Engineering degree from Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador) in 2016, followed by a Master's degree in Chemical Engineering from Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain) in 2018. Joining ICMM/CSIC as a predoctoral researcher in 2019, he completed his PhD in Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology from UAM in March 2022. He has authored 21 articles, 3 book chapters, and secured 3 patents. He boasts an h-index of 12 with over 340 citations. Recognized for his contributions, he has received 5 awards for his research, including 2 from the Madrid City Council and 1 from the Autonomous University of Madrid. His research interests primarily revolve around the development of efficient magnetic nanosystems for environmental remediation and catalytic reactions. He has particularly focused on utilizing magnetic induction heating of iron oxide nanoparticles to enhance sustainable reactions such as advanced oxidation or biodiesel production.

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Maria del Puerto Morales is Professor at the Institute of Material Science in Madrid (ICMM/CSIC) since 2018 and MaMBIO group leader. She is coordinator of the Nanomed CSIC Hub created on 2021. She got her degree in Chemistry by the University of Salamanca in 1989 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) and got her permanent position at the ICMM/CSIC in 2000. 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. The MAMBIO Group, integrated in the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Department from the Institute of Materials Science of Madrid and member of the CSIC Nanomedicine Hub, is devoted to search for new perspectives on the synthesis, structure and function of materials. Its main research topics focus on: (1) The preparation of nanomaterials, primarily nanoparticles, (2) The modification of nanomaterials by doping or coating, (3) The preparation of colloidal suspensions, (4) Their characterization and (5) Application of nanomaterials. All topics are closely connected to provide new insights into the properties of nanomaterials and their application in fields such as bioimaging, nanomedicine, catalysis, magnetic devices and sensors.