José María De Teresa, LMA researcher, “fellow” of the European Physical Society

José María de Teresa “fellow” of the European Physical Society (EPS) for his significant contributions to the field of Physics and to the EPS.

• de Teresa is head of the DUAL BEAM and nanofabrication area of the Advanced Microscopy Laboratory.
• The prestigious scientific society has also distinguished Nicola Bianchi as a Fellow in 2023.

The physicist José María de Teresa, CSIC researcher at the Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón, INMA, a joint institute of CSIC and the Universidad de Zaragoza and head of the DUAL BEAM and nanofabrication area of the Advanced Microscopy Laboratory (LMA), has just been appointed “fellow” of the European Physical Society for his significant contributions to the field of Physics and his service to the community as president of the Division of Condensed Matter Physics of the EPS from the year 2021.

In the case of José María de Teresa, the distinction is awarded for the impact of his work on a better understanding of the behavior of the electrical transport of magnetic and superconducting materials at the nanoscale, as well as his commitment and service to the community through the EPS..

The EPS Fellowship is an honourary distinction and recognition awarded annually after assessment by the EPS Executive Committee of the merits of the nominated candidates and subsequent voting by the Governing Board. As can be seen on the society’s website (https://www.eps.org/page/distinction_fellows), other Spanish physicists, such as Lluis Torner, Ángel Rubio and Víctor Velasco, share this distinction with Nobel laureates like Professor Claude Cohen-Tanoudji.

The EPS was founded in 1968 in Geneva (Switzerland), with the aim of disseminating advances in Physics and promoting European collaboration in this field, thus contributing to a greater European cultural unity Currently, the society has as 42 national physics societies (including the Royal Spanish Society of Physics), with more than 120,000 members, and each year it awards the status of “fellow” to those members who have made significant contributions in some field of Physics and/or have performed a relevant service to the EPS.