Prof. Jordi Sort received his PhD Degree in Materials Science from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He worked for two years as Postdoctoral Researcher at the SPINTEC Laboratory (Grenoble) and subsequently stayed six months at Argonne National Laboratory (USA). At present, Prof. Sort leads the “Group of Smart Nanoengineered Materials, Nanomechanics and Nanomagnetism” at UAB, which focuses its research activities on the synthesis of a wide variety of functional materials and the study of their structural, mechanical, magnetic and thermal properties. Prof. Sort has supervised 7 PhD Theses and has published around 220 articles that have received more than 5500 citations. He has also issued 3 patents. Prof. Sort has been personally appointed as Invited Speaker in 50 conferences. Prof. Jordi Sort has been awarded a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council.

The topic of his PhD dissertation was the study of magnetic exchange interactions in ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic systems. His current involvement is in Nanostructures, nanoparticles, thin films, bulk materials, metastable phases, magnetic aerogels, metallic glasses, nanocomposites, magnetic sensors, magnetic multilayers, exchange bias, soft ferromagnets, hard ferromagnets, mechanical alloying, mechanical milling, sol-gel process, suction casting, sputtering, molecular beam epitaxy, electron beam lithography, nanosphere lithography, mechanical properties, nanoindentation, microhardness, tensile tests, acoustic measurements, structural characterization, microstructures, X-ray and neutron diffraction, thermal characterization, differential scanning calorimetry, magnetometry, nuclear magnetic resonance, magneto-optic Kerr effect, electron microscopy, atomic/magnetic force microscopy, magnetic thermogravimetry, magnetic dichroism.