Last 13^th December 2017 Washington Santa Rosa defended successfully his doctoral thesis at the Universidade Federal de São Carlos (Brazil), entitled:

“Obtenção e aprimoramento das propriedades de compósitos magnetoelétricos livres de elementos tóxicos”

(Preparation and improvement of properties of magnetoelectric composites free of toxic elements)

The work was supervised by Dr. M. Venet of the Universidade Federal de São Carlos and Dr. M. Algueró of our group, as a result of the collaboration between the two groups. Washington Santa Rosa spent one year of his thesis working in our group (2015-2016).