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Spin Resolved-ARPES

Spin ARPES webThe Spin- and Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy (Spin-ARPES) laboratory was installed and commissioned at the beginning of 2021 and is devoted to the study of the electronic structure and emergent phenomena in two dimensional (2D) materials. The research lines of the Spin ARPES group are related to some of the most relevant current topics in condensed matter physics and materials science, and that have to do with the study of the electronic origin of emerging phenomena arising from the interplay between low dimensionality and strong spin-orbit coupling. This research is carried out both with in-house experiments at the Spin-ARPES laboratory at IMDEA Nanociencia and in the some of the outstanding ARPES beamlines in Synchrotron Radiation facilities as Alba (Barcelona), Elettra (Trieste, Italy), Soleil (Paris) or Bessy (Berlin). Our investigations are complemented with the study of magnetic properties by X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD), structural characterization (collaboration with STM groups at IMDEA) and electronic structure calculations in collaboration with different theory groups.

 

Among the research lines initiated since the creation of the laboratory:

  • Graphene 2D heterostructures for electronics and spintronics.
  • Electronic structure of 2D topological quantum materials (transition metal dichalcogenides, transition metal correlated oxides).
  • Magnetic topological insulators.
  • Electronic structure of 2D metal-organic frameworks.

 

  • Dr. Ana María Pizarro Arranz

    Position: Assistant Research Prof. (tenure track)
    PhD: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
    Previous Position: University of Warwick (UK)
    Research: Metallodrugs to Modulate Cancer Cell Machinery
    ORCID: 0000-0003-3037-9835
    Researcher ID: L-8348-2014
    Scopus profile:: Ana Pizarro (Scopus)
    Group webpage: Metallodrugs to Modulate Cancer Cell Machinery
    Joining Date: January, 2014
    User Name: ana.pizarro
    Telephone: +34 91 299 88 47
    Pizarro Arranz

    Ana M. Pizarro completed a PhD in Chemistry at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 2004 under the supervision of Prof. C. Navarro-Ranninger, working on trans-platinum cytotoxic compounds. She was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship (EIF) to work in the laboratory of Prof. P. J. Sadler FRS at the University of Edinburgh (UK) on new organometallic ruthenium-based organometallics. She then moved to the University of Warwick (UK) where she focused on how selected metallodrugs (based on ruthenium, osmium and iridium) exert their anticancer effects in tumour cells. In January 2014 she was awarded a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship and joined IMDEA Nanociencia as an Assistant Professor. Her main interest lies in exploiting the extraordinary features of transition metal complexes inside the human cell to modulate its machinery at the molecular level in the nano-space. Additionally, Dr. Pizarro coordinates the Cell Culture Unit and Microbiology at IMDEA Nanociencia. She is one of the ten guarantors of the Severo Ochoa centre of Excellence award at IMDEA Nanociencia. She got tenure in April 2019.

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