Aurélie Solignac is a researcher at CEA Saclay in the Nanomagnetism and Oxides Laboratory of the Condensed Matter Physics Department. Her expertise lies in electronic spin sensors, magnetic imaging, heterostructures and thin-film materials. She is involved in the development of magnetoresistive sensors for various current and future applications.

Gwenaëlle Vaudel has been a research engineer at the CNRS for 16 years, specialising in optronics and has a doctorate in physics. In charge of an ultrafast pulsed laser platform at the IMMM (=Institut des Molécules et des Matériaux du Mans), she studies light-matter interaction at very high temporal and spatial resolution. As head of a research team, she explores magnon dynamics and spin-charge and spin-phonon couplings, contributing to advances in fundamental physics and applications in spintronics, in particular the study of THz emitters.

An electronics engineer with a doctorate in neuroscience, she works at the ICube laboratory in Strasbourg, where she specialises in the modelling of magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) in Verilog-A, incorporating spin transfer phenomena. Her aim is to develop optimised models for simulating integrated circuits.

At the same time, she designs electronic circuits for conditioning and processing signals from magnetic sensors, making them easier to record and analyse.

Laureate of the CNRS Bronze Medal in 2015, Laura Thevenard joined the CNRS in 2009 after a thesis at the Photonics and Nanostructures Laboratory and a post-doctorate at Imperial College London.

Her work, supported by an ANR ‘young researchers’ grant, focuses on the manipulation of magnetisation in ferromagnetic semiconductors using ultrafast laser pulses and acoustic waves. As part of the PEPR programme, she is currently conducting her research at the INSP (=Institut des NanoSciences de Paris) on the interaction between magnetisation and ‘nano-seisms’ generated by surface acoustic waves.

Aurore Finco has been a CNRS research fellow at the Charles Coulomb Laboratory (L2C) in Montpellier since October 2021.

After completing her thesis at the University of Hamburg on the study of skyrmions using spin-polarised STM, she joined the L2C to specialise in another magnetic imaging technique, NV centre microscopy.

This technique uses a quantum sensor to observe magnetisation on a nanometric scale with high sensitivity, making it possible to examine many materials that are crucial for spintronics (antiferromagnetic, two-dimensional, etc.) and even spin waves!

Liliana D. Buda-Prejbeanu is a full professor at the Grenoble Institute of Engineering and Management (PHELMA) and a researcher at the SPINTEC laboratory. With more than 25 years of research under her belt, her expertise in magnetization dynamics and magnetic nanostructures is contributing to the development of MRAM memories and non-volatile logic devices.

She is also exploring the use of magnetic tunnel junctions for neuromorphic applications.
Her career path includes a PhD from Strasbourg, an HDR from Grenoble and a rich scientific output: more than 110 articles, 6 book chapters and 4 patents. She has led a number of international projects and supervised several theses.