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Manuel Bibes (born July 15, 1976 in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande) is a French physicist, Research Director at CNRS, specializing in functional oxides, multiferroic materials and spintronics.

Training and carrer
After an engineering degree at the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse (1998), he defended a thesis in 2001 under the supervision of Josep Fontcuberta at ICMAB, at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2001), on the physics of manganite thin films and their use in spintronics. He then did a post-doctoral stay at the CNRS/Thales Joint Physics Unit under the supervision of Albert Fert.

Manuel Bibes joined the CNRS in 2003 at the Institut d'Électronique Fondamentale (now the Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies, C2N). After stays at MIT and Cambridge University as a visiting researcher, he joined the CNRS/Thales Joint Physics Unit in 2007. His publications are listed in Google Scholar.

Manuel Bibes is a pioneer in the research of multiferroic materials (simultaneously magnetic and ferroelectric) and their use for the electrical control of magnetism. In 2009 his team discovered the phenomenon of giant electro-resistance in ferroelectric tunnel junctions (results published in the journal Nature) usable as artificial synapses. In 2016, in collaboration with the Spintec laboratory, he demonstrates that non-magnetic oxide interfaces can be used as ultra-sensitive spin detectors and then collaborates with Intel to develop a new type of transistor to replace current transistors based on CMOS technology. Since 2018, he has been recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics. In June 2022, he received with Agnès Barthélémy, Ramamoorthy Ramesh and Nicola Spaldin the Europhysics Prize awarded by the European Physical Society for their fundamental contributions to the physics and applications of multiferroic and magnetoelectric materials.

Awards and honors

 * Winner of the Europhysics Prize of the European Physical Society (2022)
 * Winner of an ERC Advanced grant from the European Research Council, ERC (2019)
 * Friedrich-Wilhelm Bessel Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2018)
 * Descartes-Huygens Prize of the French Academy of Sciences and the Royal Netherlands Academy (2017)
 * Fellow of the American Physical Society, APS (2015)
 * Winner of an ERC Consolidator grant from the European Research Council, ERC (2014)
 * EU-40 award from the European Materials Research Society, EMRS (2013)
 * Extraordinary doctoral prize, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (2001)