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Prof. Jordi Sort (Terrassa, 1976) is a Catalan Physicist working as an 'ICREA Research Professor' at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain). He received his PhD Degree in Materials Science from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 2002 (Extraordinary Award). The topic of his PhD dissertation was the study of magnetic exchange interactions in ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic systems. He worked for two years as Postdoctoral Researcher at the SPINTEC Laboratory (Grenoble) and subsequently stayed six months at Argonne National Laboratory (USA). He also performed long-term secondments at the Grenoble High Magnetic Fields Laboratory and at Los Alamos National Laboratory. At present, he leads the “Group of Smart Nanoengineered Materials, Nanomechanics and Nanomagnetism (Gnm3)” at UAB, which focuses its research activities on the synthesis of a wide variety of functional materials (electrodeposited films, lithographed structures, porous materials, bulk metallic glasses, nanocomposites) and the study of their structural, mechanical, magnetic and thermal properties. This research aims at enhancing the performance of these materials in new technological applications that go beyond the state-of-the-art.

Prof. Sort’s research activity was awarded by the Catalan Physical Society (Jordi Porta i Jué’s Prize, 2000), as well as by the Spanish Royal Physical Society (Young Researcher Award in Experimental Physics, 2003) and the Federation of Materials Societies (FEMS Prize in Materials Science & Technology, 2015). Prof. Sort has supervised 12 PhD Theses and is currently co-supervising the work of 5 more PhD students. So far, Prof. Sort has published more than 270 articles that have received approximately 6600 citations (h = 39). He has issued 5 patents and has managed 23 national/international research projects. Prof. Sort has been personally appointed as Invited Speaker in more than 65 conferences. Prof. Jordi Sort was awarded a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council in 2015. His project, entitled "Merging Nanoporous Materials with Energy-Efficient Spintronics (SPIN-PORICS)", aims to integrate engineered nanoporous materials into novel spintronic applications. He is also the Coordinator of the “SELECTA” Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (ITN-ETN), whose aim is to use electrodeposition for environmental sustainability applications. The Network gathers a total of 15 Partners, from throughout Europe, including 4 companies.