Victorino Franco

Brief C.V. (updated June 2008)

Academic degrees

Physics degree. Sevilla University, 1994
Ph.D. in Physics. Sevilla University, 1999

Scientific positions

Research Fellow. Fundación Cámara-Sevilla University. 1995-1999
Assistant Professor (Profesor Asociado). Sevilla University. 1999-2004
Associate Professor (Profesor Titular de Universidad). Sevilla University. 2004-...

Awards

Ph.D. Thesis Extraordinary Award (Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado). Sevilla University, 1999
Young Scientist Award (Experimental Physics). Spanish Royal Physical Society, 2000
Young Scientist Award. Royal Order of Chivalry of Sevilla, 2005

International committees

Vice-chairman of the Magnetic Materials Committee. The Minerals Metals and Materials Society (TMS). Since October 2009
Publication Editor, 56th Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM), 2011, Scottsdale, Arizona

Scientific results

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Member of the "Non-Crystalline Solids" research group.

Research stays at foreign institutions

Ames Laboratory. Ames (USA)
Carnegie Mellon University. Pittsburg (USA)
Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux. Bordeaux (France)
Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (I.N.RI.M). Torino (Italy)
Nanyang Technological University. (Singapore)
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Gaithersburg (USA)
Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics. Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Budapest (Hungary)
State Key Laboratory of Magnetism. Beijing (China)
University of South Florida. Tampa (USA)

Research interests

Updated on November 21, 2008

Current research interests include:

Relationship between microstructure and magnetic properties in soft magnetic amorphous and nanocrystalline alloys
Magnetic anisotropy of nanocrystalline materials
Magnetic interactions in nanostructured materials
Magnetocaloric effect and magnetic refrigeration

To get an up to date overview of our research efforts, please visit my publication list, with links to full text version of the papers.

Current teaching activities

Updated on January 30, 2008

Nowadays I have teaching duties in the Faculties of Physics and Biology .

For more detailed information, please visit the Teaching section of this web page.

Highlights

There is a universal curve for the magnetocaloric effect.

Measurements of the magnetic entropy change for different applied fields and for different alloys of the same compositional series collapse onto the same curve. Full text version of the paper.