Fitxa persona

Rosa Córdoba leads the advancement of cutting-edge Focused Ion Beam (FIB) applications, with a specific emphasis on: 

1. inducing nanoscale surface modifications in substrates and atomically-thin 2D materials,
2. designing topological and chiral nano-superconductors. 

Her primary research interests, encompassing 2D materials and heterostructures, low-dimensional magnetism, 3D nanosuperconductivity and FIB technology.

Dr. Córdoba is working as a "Ramón y Cajal" researcher in the Molecular Science Institute (ICMol) at the University of Valencia. 

She earned her Ph.D. in Physics in the study of magnetic and superconducting nanostructures fabricated through direct writing techniques based on focused beams of charged particles, University of Zaragoza in 2012. 

Subsequently, she undertook a 2-y postdoc position (2013-2015) at the Physics of Nanostructures (FNA) group in the Applied Physics Department at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), The Netherlands. She investigated the magnetism and ultrafast dynamics of magnetization and spin in nano-magnets. 

In 2016, with the support of a "Juan de la Cierva" grant, she joined the Institute of Material Science of Aragon (ICMA, Zaragoza, Spain), where she driven the use of FIB technologies to study 3D nanostructures. 

Since her affiliation with ICMol in 2019, she has focused on the study of 2D materials and heterostructures devices. She secured a Junior Leader project from the "la Caixa" Foundation (2019-2022) and served as the scientific co-coordinator of the 2D Materials research line in the "María de Maeztu" Excellence Unit (2020-2023). 

In 2021, she obtained a SEJIGENT project, Scientific Excellence Grants for Junior Researchers from the GVA (2021-2024), to develop "3D superconducting nanoarchitectures."  She is also co-PI of the coordinated project 2D-EASYMAG, subproject “Growth of van der Waals easy-plane magnets by molecular-beam epitaxy and the role of substrate interaction”, within the Research Spanish Program “Proyectos de generación de conocimiento” (2024–2026), funded by the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades of the Government of Spain.