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.