Dr. Alberto Quintana is a Lecturer in the Physics Department at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). He earned his PhD in Materials Science from UAB in 2018, graduating with the distinction of Cum Laude. Before joining the Physics Department, Dr. Quintana completed three postdoctoral stays. He began his research at Georgetown University under Prof. Kai Liu from 2018 to 2020. Following that, he continued his work at the Institut de Ciències de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) from 2020 to 2024, initially as a Juan de la Cierva Fellow under the supervision of Prof. Josep Fontcuberta, and subsequently as a postdoctoral researcher with Dr. Ignasi Fina and Dr. Florencio Sánchez.
Dr. Quintana’s research focuses on the synthesis of ferroic materials and the exploration of novel approaches to control their properties in an energy-efficient manner. More specifically, his work encompasses three primary research lines: 1) Exploiting voltage-induced ionic migration as an effective method for toggling magnetic properties (magneto-ionics), 2) Synthesizing and characterizing CMOS-compatible ferroelectric materials and implementing them in innovative multiferroic structures, and 3) Investigating the bulk photovoltaic effect in low-bandgap ferroic materials.