Amadeo L. Vázquez de Parga obtained his PhD in 1992 at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM). He carried out a postdoc stay at IBM Research Laboratory in Rüschlikon (Switzerland) in photoluminescence excited by the STM. From 2019 Prof. Vázquez de Parga is Full Professor in Condensed Matter Physics at the UAM and from 2008 Associated Researcher Professor at IMDEA Nanociencia. In 2002-2003 was visiting researcher at the Radboud University, Nijmegen (The Netherlands), working on spin polarized STM and in 2018 in the group of M. Fuhrer at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low Energy Electronic Technologies FLEET, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Short research stays at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, California (1990), Max Planck Institute in Halle (Germany) (2000) and at University of Gakushuin, Tokio (Japan) (2004) and Chiba University, Chiba Japan (2015) in the group of Prof. T.K. Yamada.

Amadeo is an associated research professor at IMDEA Nanociencia since 2008.

Fabián Calleja obtained his PhD in Physics in 2007, working in surface characterization by means of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) in the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He then performed a post-doctoral stay in the Federal Politechnical School of Lausanne from 2007 to 2010, where he continued his STM work at ultra-low temperatures and under high magnetic fields. In January 2011 he joined IMDEA Nanociencia, where he is currently hired as an STM researcher.