Rafael Ramos Amigo
Rafael Ramos did his BSc at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. In 2010, he obtained his PhD in Physics from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. His thesis focused on the study of magnetotransport properties of thin films of electrically conductive magnetic oxides and nanostructures. After a short postdoctoral stay at CRANN (Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices) in Trinity College Dublin, he joined the group of Prof. M. Ricardo Ibarra in 2012 at the Institute of Nanoscience of Aragón (INA), University of Zaragoza, Spain. He worked on a Japanese-Spanish collaboration to investigate the spin-mediated thermoelectric conversion (spin Seebeck effect) in magnetic systems. As a result from this collaboration, in 2015 he joined the group of Prof. Eiji Saitoh in Japan, where he focused on the study of mechanisms for the enhancement of the spin Seebeck effect efficiency, obtaining record enhancements in multilayer systems and by magnon-phonon resonances.
In 2020, he was awarded with the prestigious Marie-Sklodowska Curie Fellowship to join the group of Prof. Francisco Rivadulla at CIQUS, and since September 2021 he is a Ramón y Cajal fellow. His research interest focuses on the study of the electron, heat and spin transport in solid state systems, and their mutual interaction as potential routes for heat energy scavenging and heat flow control.