Our Speakers at the MSE Congress

Our experts will provide insightful talks regarding the recent developments and challenges in the design, characterization, and modeling of new dielectric materials for energy storage, with a particular focus on antiferroelectrics.

Title to be announced soon

Prof. Dr. Gustau Catalán Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia Barcelona, Spain

Gustau Catalan is an ICREA Research Professor at ICN2 in Barcelona, where he leads the Oxide Nanophysics laboratory. His research covers emerging properties of oxides at the nanoscale, with emphasis on ferroic, multiferroic and antiferroelectric materials. He has published more than 100 articles and received more than 16000 citations for his works, which include seminal discoveries ranging from the flexoelectricity and photo-flexoelectricity of semiconductors or the use of strain gradients to manipulate ferroelectricity, to the scaling laws of ferroelectric domains and their implications for domain wall nanoelectronics. Recently, he has turned his attention to antiferroelectrics –the subject of his talk- where he is currently studying their phase stability, electrocaloric properties and switching dynamics.