Multiferroic Materials: Properties, Interactions, and the Physics Behind

About Maximilien CazayousRicardo P. S. M. Lobo

Maximilien Cazayous is Professor in Physics at the Paris 7 University. He started his scientific career with his PhD work at the Solid State Physics Lab in Toulouse France where he developed a new spectroscopic technique: the Raman interferences. He did postdoc research on the luminescence of quantum dots in micro-discs at Lund University Sweden in the team of M. E. Pistol. In 2003 he was appointed assistant professor at Paris 7 University where he build up a team devoted to Raman spectroscopy and to work on superconductors (cuprates and now pnictides). His research has included combined magnetic and structural measurements to investigate DNA molecules the strudy of core shell nanoparticles and multiferroics using optical spectroscopy techniques. Ricardo Lobo obtained his PhD from the University of Orleans France on the infrared visible and UV properties of conducting and superconducting oxides. In the late 90es he had a joint University of Florida / Brookhaven National Laboratory appointment to work on the development of synchrotron based time-resolved infrared spectroscopy. For this work he received the young scientist Genzel-prize in 2008. In 2001 he pursued his time-resolved work at the free-electron laser CLIO in Orsay. He moved to ESPCI in 2002 as a CNRS staff scientist. His current subjects of interest are the optical properties of cuprate and pnictide superconductors as well as of the magneto-electric coupling in multiferroic materials.