Tutorials

A Unique Opportunity for Students!

Are you a student eager to deepen your knowledge in the field of magnetic nanoparticles? Don´t miss the opportunity to interact with leading scientists in magnetic nanoparticles. Sign-up into the special ICFPM Tutorial Sessions, featuring talks by world-renowned experts in the field!

These tutorials are specially designed to provide a solid foundation and cutting-edge insights into magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs), from fundamental principles to advanced applications and modeling techniques.

When? October 19, 2025 – 15 hs

Where? ICFMP2025 Conference Building at the Bariloche Atomic Center

Tutorial Topics:

Dr. Xavier Batlle – The magnetic nanoparticle iceberg

Xavier Batlle is Full Professor and Area Coordinator of ‘Materials Physics and Biophysics’ of the Department of Condensed Matter Physics of the University of Barcelona (UB), for which he was Chair (2019-2024). He is co-leader of the Group of Magnetic Nanomaterials since 1993 (11 members at present and ca. 85 in the past). He has been visiting researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley Nat Lab (USA), U.C. San Diego (USA), CNRS and Institute Laue Langevin (Grenoble), and U. Cambridge (UK), among others. His work has aimed at the interplay among finite-size, surface, interface, interaction and proximity effects, and at the intimate correlation of the nanostructure to the magnetic, electronic and electron transport properties of nanomaterials. He is Fellow of the American Physical Society (2012), Silver insignia of the UB (2024) and Salvador Velayos Award in Magnetism (2024).

Dra. Maria del Puerto Morales – Developing efficient processes towards safe magnetic nanoparticles

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: https://conexion-nanomed.csic.es/.

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.

She has authored several book chapters, patents and more than 300 articles (>20.000 citations). 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.

Dr. Hamid Kachkachi – Modeling of static and dynamic properties of MNPs

Hamid Kachkachi received his PhD in Mathematical Physics in 1994 from U. Bordeaux I (lab. Theoeretcial Physics), after a few short-term posts, he became Assistant Professor in 1997 at U. Versailles (Lab. Magnetism and Optics), then Associate Professor in 2003. In 2008, he was appointed as Full Professor at U. Perpignan, where he built the research group Nanoscaled Spin Systems. His research today focuses on Electrodynamics of hybrid nanostructures, Nanomagnetism, Systems with coupled charge and spin degrees of freedom, e.g. magnetic semiconductors