José Luis Vicent is Professor Emeritus of the Departamento de Física de Materiales (Universidad Complutense, Madrid). Prof. Vicent has worked at the University of Virginia, F. Bitter National Magnet Lab. at MIT, Argonne National Lab., University California-San Diego, Centro Atómico Bariloche (Argentina), and Universidad del Valle (Colombia). He has been Chairman of the Spanish Condensed Matter Division (GEFES-RSEF) and Chairman of the Materials Science Commission (Spanish National Science Foundation). Prof. Vicent has been the advisor of more than 20 master and Ph. D. students. He has been Programme Manager of Nanoelectronics and Superconductivity research programme and head of the Transport in 2D systems group at IMDEA Nanociencia since 2010. His publications cover a diversity of materials from single crystals to metallic glasses, and many different effects mostly related to magnetism and superconductivity at the nanoscale.
