Mendive Tapia, Eduardo
Eduardo Mendive studied Physics at the University of Barcelona and completed his PhD at the University of Warwick (UK), under the supervision of Prof. J. Staunton. His doctoral research focused on combining Density Functional Theory with statistical mechanics methods to enable the ab initio thermodynamic modelling of magnetic materials. His thesis was recognized as outstanding PhD research by Springer and earned second place in the prestigious Sam Edwards Prize. He has held postdoctoral positions at Forschungszentrum Jülich (Peter Grünberg Institute, directed by Prof. S. Blügel) and the Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials (Department of Computational Materials Design, directed by Prof. J. Neugebauer). Eduardo Mendive recently completed a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship and has been appointed lecturer in the Department of Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Barcelona. Apart of being a member of the IQTCUB, he also belongs to the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (IN2UB). His current research specializes in the first-principles computational study of magnetic materials, with a particular focus on the prediction and understanding of functional magnetic phase transitions. His work has direct relevance to a range of technological applications, including environmentally friendly solid-state caloric refrigeration. He enjoys close collaboration with experimental groups and aims to bridge theoretical models with real-world applications in magnetism and materials science. More recently, he has expanded his research to include polymeric materials, exploring their potential as elastocaloric refrigerants.