Mustafa Erkovan joined ICMAB-CSIC in October 2024 as a postdoctoral researcher on the CONVERT project. He earned his Ph.D. in Physics from Gebze Technical University, Turkey, in 2011, followed by a postdoctoral position at Freie Universität Berlin from 2011 to 2013. From 2013 to 2019, he served as a faculty member in the Department of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering at Sakarya University, Turkey. In 2019, he joined INESC-MN in Portugal as a senior researcher, a role he held until 2023, alongside serving as an invited assistant professor at Instituto Superior Técnico. His research focuses on advanced materials and devices, particularly Magnetic Tunnel Junction (MTJ) sensors. Currently, in his postdoctoral role at ICMAB, he is dedicated to developing spintronic devices utilizing insulating ferrimagnetic materials.

Takayuki Shiino joined ICMAB-CSIC and the MAGNEPIC project as a postdoctoral researcher in March 2024. He received his BSc in Physics (2013) and MSc in Materials Science and Engineering (2016) from Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan) and KAIST (South Korea), respectively. He received his Ph.D. from Nagoya University (Japan) in 2019 with a thesis on a quantum critical phenomenon in heavy-fermion materials. After the PhD, he experienced two postdoctoral researches: Uppsala University (2019 - 2021, Sweden) and KAIST (2022 - 2024, South Korea) for the studies of quasicrystals and spintronics, respectively. His current postdoctoral research focuses on spintronic devices with insulating ferrimagnetic materials.

Weronika Janus joined ICMAB-CSIC and SMARTSPIN project as a Postdoc researcher in November 2023. She studied at AGH University of Krakow, Poland, where she obtained her BSc in Biomedical Engineering (2018), MSc in Biomedical Engineering - Bionanotechnology (2019), and she started her PhD in Physics (2019). During her PhD, she focused on the strain manipulation of magnetic properties in antiferromagnetic thin films. Her current research interest is in developing innovative magnetic insulator-based spintronic memory devices, where the information can be written and read by all-electrical means

Silvia Damerio joined ICMAB-CSIC and the MAGNEPIC project as a Post-doc researcher in February 2022. She obtained her BSc. (Hons - 2015) and MSc. (Hons - 2017) in Chemistry from the University of Genova (Italy) and University of Groningen (The Netherlands), respectively. She subsequently joined the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials of the University of Groningen for her PhD, which she received in 2022 with a thesis about modulated phases in ferroic oxides. She recently received a grant of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions to investigate dynamical spintronic devices and continue her research at ICMAB.

Teodor Apetrei joined ICMAB-CSIC and the MUST project as a PhD student in November 2023. He obtained his BSc. degree in Computational Physics at University Alexandru Ioan Cuza Iasi (Romania, 2020) and his MSc. degree in Applied and Engineering Physics at Technische Universitat Munchen (Germany, 2023). The main focus of his current research is the growth and engineering of magnetic oxide and nitride thin films by magnetron sputtering with tunable interfacial chiralic magnetism and perpendicular anisotropy.

Stefano Fedel joined ICMAB-CSIC and the MAGNEPIC project as a PhD student in September 2021. He studied Engineering Physics at Politecnico di Milano (Italy), where he obtained his BSc. in 2018 and MSc. in 2021. He spent one year as an exchange student at Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) between 2019 and 2020. Afterward, he carried out his master thesis at ETH Zurich (Switzerland), where he focused on the characterization of spin-orbit torques at the interface between topological insulators and ferromagnet. Stefano's project deals with the current-driven dynamics of magnetization in magnetic insulators detected by MOKE microscopy.

Matteo Fettizio joined ICMAB-CSIC and the MAGNEPIC project as a PhD student in March 2023 after obtaining his BSc. and MSc. degrees in Electronics Engineering at Politecnico di Milano (Italy). The main focus of his research is on the voltage induced control of magnetic anisotropy in thin films of ferrimagnetic garnets for spintronics applications.