Sergio Valenzuela obtained his PhD in Physics in 2001 at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina) and held research positions at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Since July 2008 he has been an ICREA Research Professor and leader of the ICN2 Physics and Engineering of Nanodevices Group. His research is focused on the unique properties of materials with nanoscale dimensions, motivated by both their intrinsic scientific interest and their potential for advanced electronic applications. His work encompasses spintronics, quantum computation with superconducting circuits and quantum metrology. Together with his collaborators, he has pioneered the use of non- local devices to study the spin Hall effect and of thermopiles to isolate the magnon drag in ferromagnetic materials, and he has implemented novel qubit control and spectroscopy methods.

Here are the slides of his course.

Leni Bascones is a researcher at Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM-CSIC). She has wide experience in the theoretical study of strongly correlated materials, including iron based superconductors and cuprates. In the last years her research has been focused in studying the electronic properties of magic angle twisted bilayer graphene, a moiré material in which a plethora of unconventional correlated and superconducting states have been observed. Together with her collaborators, she has done pioneering contributions to the modelling of the topological flat bands of Magic Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene in terms of a Heavy Fermion model and the understanding of their properties with simulations based on Dynamical Mean Field Theory, particularly the so-called electronic cascades.

Leticia Cugliandolo is Professor of Physics at Sorbonne Université (Paris), specialising in the statistical physics of systems far from equilibrium. Her research group develops theoretical frameworks for disordered and active materials, including glassy relaxation, spin‐glasses, the definition of effective temperatures in slowly relaxing systems, and the collective dynamics of dense active matter. With her collaborators she derived the now-famous “Cugliandolo–Kurchan” equations for ageing in glasses, formulated mean-field theories for open quantum disordered systems, and analysed spatio-temporal fluctuations in out-of-equilibrium materials.

Eduardo Fradkin is Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, known for his influential work on quantum field theory and condensed matter physics. His research explores emergent behavior in strongly correlated electron systems, including quantum Hall effects, topological phases, and unconventional superconductivity. He and his collaborators developed theoretical frameworks connecting gauge theories, topological order, and fractionalization in quantum materials, and contributed to the understanding of nematic phases and quantum criticality in high-temperature superconductors.

Hermann Suderow is an experimental physicist and Full Professor at the Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). His research focuses on superconductivity, quantum phenomena at ultra-low temperatures, and the development of scanning tunneling microscopes (STM) operating in the millikelvin regime. He is internationally recognized for his pioneering work in cryogenic instrumentation and for exploring electronic correlations in quantum materials. His research has illuminated key aspects of multiband superconductivity, charge and spin-density-wave systems, ferromagnetic superconductors, and topological materials. He has made major contributions to vortex physics in iron-based superconductors, discovered new correlated surface states, and developed Josephson Scanning Spectroscopy, a novel method to probe quantum coherence at the atomic scale.