Julio Camarero received his PhD in physics from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 1999. He then worked at Institut Néel-CNRS France during four years (MarieCurie Fellow N°. HPMF-CT-1999-00151 and scientific contracts) before returning to UAM in 2003 as Ramón y Cajal research fellow. Secretary of the Materials Science Institute "Nicolás Cabrera" at UAM (2007-2010). He is currently Associate Professor of the Condensed Matter Physics Department. In 2008 he joined IMDEA Nanoscience as Associated Senior Scientist, leading the Nanomagnetism program. Since 2016, he is Deputy Director of Scientific Strategy at IMDEA Nanociencia.

JC has a proven expertise in surface science, surfactant-assisted growth, nanomagnetism, spintronic, and synchrotron-based instrumentation. His skills include the preparation of artificial (inorganic and organic) magnetic nanostructures the study of their structural, electronic, magnetic, and transport properties, as well as the technological development of new (unique) experimental techniques. Among other, he contributed to develop a unique chemically selective tools for imaging the magnetization reversal processes at the sub-nanosecond time-scale in complex magnetic heterostructures with nanometer resolution at large Facilities and he has developed a ultra-high resolution vectorial-Kerr magnetometries with both time and temperature resolutions. Independent researcher since 2004.

Since 2008, Dr J. Camarero leads the Advanced-MOKE group at the Surface Science Lab at UAM (LASUAM) and the Nanomagnetism Program at IMDEA nanoscience. The join group is at the forefront of research in epitaxial growth, magnetic nanostructures, surface/interface science and it is equipped with a powerful battery of techniques that enable the investigation of many properties of surfaces and nanostructures deposited on solid surfaces by physical means (including molecular beam epitaxy -MBE-, chemical vapor deposition -CVD-, and sputtering techniques), such as their atomic structure and morphology, their electronic structure, as well as their magnetic and transport behavior. The group’s research is mainly focused on the magnetic properties, with a particular emphasis on magnetization reversal processes and magnetoresistive responses, of low-dimensional artificial magnetic structures, such as ultrathin magnetic films and multilayers, magnetic nanostructures, magnetic nanoparticles and adsorbed molecules.

His main aim is to get a better understanding of fabrication processes and physical properties of new materials and functionalities as a first step towards the development of devices with custom-chosen properties with enormous impact for our society, including spintronic, permanent magnets, and biomedical applications.