Nuria Del Valle
She obtained her degree in Physics in 2003 and subsequently earned her PhD in 2009, both from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. After several years holding various teaching and research positions, she secured a full-time appointment in 2022 as Associate Professor of Applied Physics in the Department of Physics at UAB.
Her main research interests revolve around the study and simulation of magnetic materials and systems. For several years, she dedicated her work to developing theoretical models describing the macroscopic levitation of superconductors, mainly through the critical-state approach. Building on this experience, she later explored the physical properties of type-II superconductors, focusing on aspects such as magnetisation, transport, magnetic susceptibility, and critical currents.
In recent years, her research has mainly focused on two areas: the control and tailoring of static magnetic fields—such as magnetic guiding, focusing, shielding, transformation, and trapping—and the simulation of magnetic structures in ferromagnetic materials, including vortices, domain walls, and skyrmions, within the framework of micromagnetic modelling.