Dr. María-José (Pepa) Martínez Pérez is a tenured CSIC Scientist. She is an experimentalist, deeply involved in the emerging field of quantum magnonics. Pepa leads an ERC Starting Grant and belongs to the board of directors of the Spanish Division on Condensed Matter Physics.

José Lado is an Assistant Professor at Aalto University, Finland, leading the Correlated Quantum Materials group since 2019. His research combines materials science, quantum many-body physics, and machine learning to design artificial quantum materials with exotic quantum states, aiming to create a van der Waals-based universal topological quantum computer. He explores phenomena such as unconventional superconductivity, symmetry-broken states, topological states, and fractional quantum excitations.
His contributions have earned him prestigious awards, including Early Career Award (European Physical Society, 2023), Early Career Theory Award (Royal Spanish Physics Society, 2023), 2DM Young Scientist Award (2024) and ERC Consolidator Grant (2024). He also develops open-source software for quantum matter modeling and collaborates with experimental groups, particularly on van der Waals materials.

Prof. Matteo Briganti is a computational chemist specializing in modeling open-shell molecular systems, including lanthanides, transition metals, and organic radicals, for quantum information processing. His research focuses on molecular magnets using wavefunction-based methods and Density Functional Theory. He completed his PhD in Computational Chemistry and Molecular Magnetism at the University of Florence (UNIFI), working with Prof. Federico Totti at the Laboratory of Molecular Magnetism, headed by Prof. Roberta Sessoli. He also spent 18 months at Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) in Brazil under Prof. Maria Vaz, earning a joint PhD from UNIFI and UFF. After his PhD, he conducted postdoctoral research at UNIFI and later at the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil, on a CAPES grant, collaborating with Prof. Jaisa Soares. In 2021, he received the “Giovani Ricercatori Protagonisti” fellowship from UNIFI for research on organometallic qubits adsorbed on metal and superconducting surface. Since September 2023, he has been a tenure-track Assistant Professor at UNIFI at the Department of Chemistry “Ugo Schiff”. In 2024, he received the Italian Science Fund's Starting Grant (“Italian ERC”) for research on open-shell nanographene structures adsorbed on surfaces using Ab Initio and Artificial Intelligence methods.

Dr. Sam Bayliss is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Lecturer in Quantum Engineering at the University of Glasgow, where he leads the Quantum Optospintronics Group. Sam’s research focuses on using spins in chemically synthesised molecules for quantum sensing and next-generation photonic devices, and spans solid-state physics, quantum engineering, physical chemistry, and materials science. Sam received a PhD from the University of Cambridge (2016), conducted postdoctoral work at the Freie Universität Berlin (2017), and the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago (2017-2021), and has been a visiting researcher to the Mescoscopic Physics Group, Paris-Sud University. He joined the University of Glasgow in 2021. Recent work from his group includes the demonstration of optically detected coherent spin control in molecules at room temperature (Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 120801, 2024).

Dr. Amandine Bellec is CNRS researcher at the laboratory Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques (Université Paris Cité/CNRS). Specialized in surface science, she mainly focuses her experimental research on the study of interfaces between molecular layers and various substrates (metal, ferromagnet) combining the use of local measurements (Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy) and synchrotron techniques (X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy and Surface Diffraction). 

Prof. Dr. Elke Scheer is full Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Konstanz. She studied physics at the University of Karlsruhe (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology -KIT), where she received her doctorate in 1995. From 1990 to 1996 she was a research assistant at the Institute of Physics (Physikalisches Institut) at the University of Karlsruhe, from 1996 to 1997 she was a postdoc at the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique [CEA] in Saclay, France, then, until 2000, she was an Assistant Professor (C1) at the University of Karlsruhe. In May 2000, she was appointed Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Konstanz. From 2003 to 2009 she served as Director of the Zukunftskolleg (funded by the German Excellence Initiative) of the University of Konstanz. The German Physical Society awarded her the Gustav Hertz Prize in 1999, and in October 2000 she received the Alfried Krupp Prize for Young University Teachers from the Krupp Foundation. In 2012 she received the Tina-Ulmer teaching Award of the University of Konstanz for her course lecture on molecular electronics. She is coauthor (with J. C. Cuevas) of the textbook Molecular Electronics: An Introduction to Theory and Experiment which appeared in two editions 2010 and 2017. Her research interests cover several aspects of electronic transport in quantum coherent systems reaching down to the atomic and molecular scale, including single-molecule molecular electronics and mesoscopic superconductivity. Another research field is nonlinear dynamics, studied in nano-and micromechanical systems. She is author of 175 scientific outlets listed on Web of Science (February 2025).

Dr. Hannah Stern is an Associate Professor and Royal Society University Research Fellow (URF) at the Department of Materials, University of Oxford, where she leads a research team that explores new spin-active systems for quantum optical technologies. Her work currently focusses on identification and development of optical spin-triplet defects in hexagonal Boron Nitride. Prior to joining Oxford, Dr. Stern was at the Photon Science Institute in Manchester and Junior Research Fellow at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.

Dr. Yujeong Bae is the Group Leader of the Quantum Magnetism group at the nanotech@surfaces Laboratory, where she focuses on investigating and engineering quantum coherent functionalities of spin structures built on a surface with atomic precision. She joined Empa in 2024 and started establishing a lab dedicated to the precise construction and characterization of spin-based quantum structures using a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope (STM) with electron spin resonance (ESR) capabilities, providing high spatial and energy resolution.Yujeong received her Bachelor's degree in Physics and Mathematics from Ewha Womans University in 2010. She continued her academic journey at the same university, completing her Ph.D. in Physics in 2016 with a thesis project on spin transport in hybrid organic spintronic devices. Transitioning her research field towards the smallest conceivable spin device with special focus on the quantum dynamics, she joined the IBS Center for Quantum Nanoscience (QNS) and IBM Almaden Research Center as a postdoctoral researcher. After three years, she became a Group Leader at the QNS and a research professor at Ewha Womans University.
Yujeong brings extensive expertise in ultra-high vacuum systems for ultra-thin organic/inorganic film growth and in a low-temperature spin-polarized STM with a dilution refrigerator and a Joule-Thomson refrigerator. Her research, primarily conducted using ESR-STM, has focused on studying 3d and 4f electron spins, as well as nuclear spins carried by individual atoms/molecules on a surface. Her scientific contributions include demonstrating the atomic clock transition in precisely engineered atomic structures, exploring hyperfine interactions of single atoms, achieving coherent manipulation of single- and multiple-electron qubits, built atom by atom, and functionalizing the STM tip apex with molecular spins for atomic-scale quantum sensing.

Prof. Mirko Cinchetti is a professor at the Faculty of Physics at TU Dortmund University, where he leads a research group on ultrafast spin dynamics and hybrid interfaces. His work focuses on understanding and controlling elementary excitations in low-dimensional quantum systems, with a particular emphasis on organic/inorganic and van der Waals interfaces. Using advanced time-resolved spectroscopic techniques, the Cinchetti group contributes to the development of novel concepts in spintronics, quantum materials, and hybrid nanostructures.
At ECMolS 2025, Mirko Cinchetti looks forward to discussing recent advances in proximity effects in low-dimensional materials and their dynamic control using light, as well as engaging in interdisciplinary dialogue with the broader molecular science community.

Samuel Mañas-Valero is an early-career researcher with experience in the fields of physics, materials science and chemistry, highlighting the delicate symbiosis between crystal growth and strongly correlated phases as magnetism or superconductivity, ranging from bulk to the two-dimensional limit (2D materials). Samuel received his BSc in Physics (2013) and MSc in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (2015) from the University of Valencia (Spain). He joined the group of Prof. Eugenio Coronado (University of Valencia) and received his PhD 'Cum Laude' in 2021 for his work on 'Two-dimensional crystals and van der Waals heterostructures based on inorganic and molecular strongly correlated layered materials’, performing solid-state crystal growth and magneto-transport characterization of 2D materials and van der Waals heterostructures. In 2022, he moved to the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft , The Netherlands) as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of prof. Herre van der Zant for sensing 2D magnets via nano-mechanical resonators, funded by the APOSTD program (Generalitat Valenciana, Spain). In 2023, he was awarded with a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship for realizing diamond magnetometry with prof. Toeno van der Sar (TU Delft), successfully developing a new single-spin scanning microscopy for magnon detection. In 2025, he received a Kavli fellowship within the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, working jointly with prof. Toeno van der Sar and prof. Sonia Conesa-Boj for unravelling the interplay between spin-waves and Moiré formation in twisted 2D magnets.  

Dr. Chiesa studied at the University of Parma, where he got the PhD in Physics in 2016. He then worked as a postdoc at Jülich Forschungszentrum (Germany), with Angelo Della Riccia fellowship and is now member of the Spin-based Quantum Science Group at the University of Parma. His research interests span from the theoretical modelling of Molecular Nanomagnets to investigate fundamental quantum-mechanical issues to the development of schemes for Quantum Information Processing (Quantum Simulation, Quantum Error Correction, Quantum Computation) with Molecular Spin Qudits and other physical systems, in close connection with experiments. In particular, he is currently working on the development of schemes for quantum error correction embedded within individual molecular spin qudits. On a more fundamental side, he is investigating the chirality-induced spin selectivity effect by combining targeted experiments with theoretical models to understand the phenomenon and ultimately exploit it for spin-based quantum technologies.

Prof. Fernando Luis is a CSIC research professor at the Institute of Nano and Materials Science (INMA) in Zaragoza, Spain. His work has focussed on studying quantum phenomena that magnetic nanomaterials and, in particular, magnetic molecules exhibit near absolute zero. Currently, he leads INMA’s experimental activity in the field of quantum technologies that aims to develop a hybrid quantum processor based on molecular spin qudits coupled to, and through, superconducting circuits.

Dr. Mattia Benini is currently a postdoctoral researcher at TU Dortmund. His research focuses on the growth and characterization of heterostructures composed of magnetic materials and organic molecules, with the goal of tailoring magnetic properties in ferromagnetic thin films by engineering hybrid interfaces with molecular species. After earning his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Bologna in 2022, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at CNR-ISMN in Bologna from 2022 to 2024.

Dr. Junjie Liu is a Lecturer in Physics at Queen Mary University of London, having joined in April 2024 after a Research Fellowship at the University of Oxford. He earned his PhD in Physics from the University of Florida and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory under the supervision of Prof. Stephen Hill, where he made pioneering contributions to understanding quantum tunneling and magnetic relaxation in single-molecule magnets. His research spans coherent magneto-electric couplings, spintronic devices, and low-dimensional quantum magnets. In 2021, he received a prestigious Royal Society University Research Fellowship to explore electric-field control and readout of molecular quantum spins. Dr. Liu’s current work focuses on (sub)nanometer-scale quantum spin systems, such as molecular nanomagnets and semiconductor dopants, and their potential for quantum technologies, including the use of hyperfine-coupled nuclear moments as qudits for fault-tolerant quantum computing.

Prof. Floriana Tuna is a Reader in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Manchester (UK), where she leads a research group focused on molecular magnetic materials and EPR spectroscopy. She is also Manager of EPSRC UK National Research Facility for Electron Paramagnetic Resonance, and the Theme Leader for Advanced Instrument Development in the Photon Science Institute. Floriana obtained her PhD from Bucharest, and conducted postdoctoral training in Heidelberg, Bordeaux and Warwick. She has been awarded a Romania Academy ‘Ilie Murgulescu’ Prize for seminal research, two Royal Society Horizon prizes, a Royal Society Dalton Division Prize, and several other fellowships including Leverhulme, Marie Curie and DAAD fellowships. Her main research is centred on d/f-block organometalic and metal organic molecular materials (including MOFs) for quantum technologies, energy, and environmental applications. Here she uses EPR and magnetometry to understand aspects of electronic structures, coherent spin dynamics, quantum properties, and catalytic transformations, to cite only few of her interests.

Prof. Luis E. Hueso is an Ikerbasque Research Professor, leader of the Nanodevices Group, and scientific director of the Unit of Excellence “Maria de Maeztu” at CIC nanoGUNE. Since his PhD he has worked at the University of Cambridge (UK) [with Professor Neil D. Mathur], the Italian National Research Council [with Dr. Alek Dediu] and the University of Leeds (UK) as a University Lecturer.

His current research interests include organic and 2D electronics and spintronic devices, applications of low-symmetry materials, as well as advanced nanofabrication. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). Other previous recognitions to his research include a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College (Cambridge) and a Molecular Science Frontier Professorship by the Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.