Congratulations to Carlos Torres for receiving a Juan de La Cierva (JdC) Fellowship from the Agencia Estatal de Investigación! Carlos was ranked 2nd of all applicants in Physics, an incredible achievement given the highly competitive nature of this program. Carlos’ JdC … Continued
Allan was interviewed as part of the “Talento Joven” series of ABC XL Semanal by Carlos Manuel Sánchez. You can read the interview here!
Allan Johnson was interviewed by Raúl Limón for El Pais, the world’s largest Spanish speaking newspaper! Check out the interview here!
Allan Johnson received the Young Researcher Award in Experimental Physics, presented by the Royal Spanish Society of Physics and the BBVA Foundation, at a ceremony held at the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical, and Natural Sciences on December 4. The … Continued
We’re joined by a new PhD student Lishin Thottathi, who will be working on our new XUV beamline. Welcome Lishin!
Our paper “Coherent X-ray imaging of stochastic dynamics” has been voted as a runner-up of the 2025 Materials Advances Paper Prize! Check out the publication, and the popular summary: https://nanociencia.imdea.org/home-en/news/item/a-new-method-captures-the-stochastic-dynamics-in-coherent-x-ray-imaging More information: https://blogs.rsc.org/jm/2025/06/17/announcing-the-2025-materials-advances-paper-prize-winners/?doing_wp_cron=1750239450.4815459251403808593750
A big welcome to our newest group member, Óscar Pérez Benito, who joines the USQM group a postdoctoral fellow! Óscar will be working on the construction of our new HHG-based XUV coherent imaging beamline here at IMDEA Nanociencia funded by … Continued
We have two new papers out studying the photoinduced phase transition in VO2 in Nature Communications and NPJ Quantum Materials. How the insulator to metal phase transition in VO2 occurs is one of condensed matter physics oldest problems, and by … Continued
Our latest work “Chirped pulse control over the melting of superconductors” has now been published in Physical Review B! Congratulations to Maria Recasens for her first lead author publication. In it we simulate the dynamics of superconductors driven by strong … Continued
A big welcome to Carlos Torres, who joins our group as postdoc following his PhD at Northwestern University (USA). Carlos will be working on coherent imaging in manganites and other strongly correlated systems.