Lasse Laurson joins the EPJ Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC)

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Published on 03 February 2026

The Steering Committee of EPJ is delighted to welcome Lasse Laurson, as the new representative of the Finnish Physical Society.

Professor Lasse Laurson is a professor of computational physics and head of the Computational Physics Laboratory, part of the Physics Unit at Tampere University, Finland.

He is a member of the Academic Board of Tampere University, and works on computational statistical physics of complex systems, focusing especially on collective phenomena in materials.

Jacobo Santamaría joins the EPJ Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC)

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Published on 30 January 2026

The Steering Committee of EPJ is delighted to welcome Jacobo Santamaría, as the new representative of the Spanish Physical Society.

Professor Jacobo Santamaría is a Full Professor of Physics at the Department of Materials Physics at the University Complutense de Madrid (Spain). He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics at the University Complutense (1989), followed by post-doctoral research at the University of California San Diego. He leads the Complutense Research Group on Complex Materials (GFMC), with focus on the physics of correlated transition metal oxides. His research is mainly on magnetism and superconductivity of artificial oxide interfaces with attention to spintronics and energy devices.

He is a fellow of the American Physical Society (2008) and was awarded a
D´Alembert Chair of the University Paris Saclay (2017). Member of the Editorial Board of the Physical Review Materials (2018-). He has been Chair of the State Research Plan for Materials (Program Manager) of the Spanish National Funding Agency (2011-2018). Holder of international EU Projects (ERC Synergy 2025, EIC Pathfinder 2024).

Alberta Bonnani joins the EPJ Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC)

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Published on 23 January 2026

The Steering Committee of EPJ is delighted to welcome Alberta Bonnani, as the new representative of the Austrian Physical Society.

Professor Alberta Bonanni was born in Italy. After studying physics at the University of Trieste, she spent several years as a researcher at the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis and the University of Wisconsin.

Since 2015, she has been Professor of Solid State Physics at the Institute for Semiconductor and Solid State Physics at Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz. Since October 2019 she has been Vice-Rector for Research and International Affairs at JKU. Since 2024 she is Chair of the Austrian Physical Society.

Her main scientific work is in the field of quantum materials, spintronics and solid state physics.