Fernando Luis

Fernando Luis received his PhD from the University of Zaragoza (Spain) in 1997, with a thesis on the phenomenon of spin quantum tunneling. Between 1998 and 2000, he worked as a Marie Curie postdoctoral researcher at the Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory of the University of Leiden (The Netherlands), and then as a Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Spanish Council of Research (CSIC). Since 2003, he has held a permanent appointment with CSIC at the Institute of Nanoscience and Materials of Aragón (INMA). His research activity focuses on the study of magnetic molecular clusters, with a special interest on phenomena such as quantum tunneling, quantum coherence and quantum phase transitions, which occur near the absolute zero, and on the application of these molecular spins to quantum computation.