Jacobo Santamaría joins the EPJ Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC)

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Published on 30 January 2026

The Steering Committee of EPJ is delighted to welcome Jacobo Santamaría, as the new representative of the Spanish Physical Society.

Professor Jacobo Santamaría is a Full Professor of Physics at the Department of Materials Physics at the University Complutense de Madrid (Spain). He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics at the University Complutense (1989), followed by post-doctoral research at the University of California San Diego. He leads the Complutense Research Group on Complex Materials (GFMC), with focus on the physics of correlated transition metal oxides. His research is mainly on magnetism and superconductivity of artificial oxide interfaces with attention to spintronics and energy devices.

He is a fellow of the American Physical Society (2008) and was awarded a
D´Alembert Chair of the University Paris Saclay (2017). Member of the Editorial Board of the Physical Review Materials (2018-). He has been Chair of the State Research Plan for Materials (Program Manager) of the Spanish National Funding Agency (2011-2018). Holder of international EU Projects (ERC Synergy 2025, EIC Pathfinder 2024).