Freitas Paulo P

Paulo Freitas received his Ph.D in Condensed Matter Physics from Carnegie Mellon University in 1986. His thesis topic involved the study of the magnetoresistive properties of Co-Fe alloys and thin film multilayers. Between 1986 and 1988 he was an IBM post-doctoral fellow at IBM Yorktown Heights. Since 1989 he has been at the Instituto Superior Tecnico where he is presently a full professor in the Department of Physics. He is director of INESC MN, co-responsible for the Spintronics research group, and since 2010 Deputy Director General of the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory in Braga, Portugal. His current research interests include spintronic devices, biosensors and lab on chip devices, current sensors and new types of microelectrode arrays for neuroscience applications.