New postdoc

Marcos Penedo Garcia earned his degree in Telecommunication Engineering at the Universidad de Vigo (Spain). He received his Ph.D in Applied Physics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain) in 2013 for developing new actuation techniques in liquid for the atomic force microscope (AFM). Then he moved to the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA-ETH domain, Zurich) as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the next 5 years, where he studied molecular motors at low temperatures and ultra-low vacuum using the scanning tunneling microscope (STM), and improved the existing magnetic force microscopy techniques (sputter coating process and tip calibration) in vacuum to increase magnetic force sensitivity and be able to perform quantitative measurements, applied to localizing and imaging skyrmions quantitatively. In 2019, he joined the WPI Nano Life Science Institute (Kanazawa University) as an Assistant Professor, focused on the development of the nano-endoscopy AFM technique for the generation of 3D/2D maps of living cells and their internal structures, which continues to further develop at the LBNI in EPFL since August 2020.