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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.

Happy to share our recent work in Materials Advances has been highlighted in the 2024 Popular Advances Collection! You can find the full collection here: Materials Advances Popular Advances Collection 2024. Link to the article: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2024/ma/d4ma00154k

Allan Johnson, a “Ramón y Cajal” researcher at IMDEA Nanociencia, has been awarded a “Leonardo” grant from the BBVA Foundation. His project, “Imaging and Controlling Ultrafast Quantum Devices,” will help shed light on how next-generation electronic devices—such as “memristors” based … Continued

Our project KnotSeen – Imaging the Topological Defects of Light-Induced Phase Transitions – has been funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant! With 2.5 million euros we will build a state of the art ultrafast XUV beamline for coherent … Continued

IMDEA Nanoscience has issued a press release covering our new work in Materials Advances! Check it out!

A big welcome to Ricardo Rojas, who joins the USQM team as a postdoc, and to Ahsan Ali, who joins us for his PhD. Ricardo recently finished his PhD at the University of Luxembourg in ultrafast spectroscopy applied to condensed … Continued

Shreya Bagchi begins her PhD in the group! Shreya undertook her masters in laser science at Pondicherry University, and at IMDEA Nanociencia is studying the application of light-induced phase transitions to nonlinear optics.

Arnab Sarkar joins the USQM group as a postdoctoral fellow from IIT Kanpur, where he studied time crystals in mechanical systems. At IMDEA Arnab will be leading construction of our new ultrafast magnetic spectroscopic capabilities and studying light-induced phase transitions … Continued

Our recent work on imaging ultrafast phase transitions at the nanoscale using X-ray free electron lasers has been highlighted in the media. Check it out! Quantum Materials Unveiled: A New X-Ray Imaging Technique https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/12/221222123055.htm https://www.imveurope.com/news/x-ray-imaging-enables-observation-quantum-material-dynamics https://www.azonano.com/news.aspx?newsID=39984