Fèlix Casanova is an Ikerbasque Research Professor at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain). He obtained his PhD in Physics from the University of Barcelona in 2004 and was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, San Diego from 2005 to 2009.

Since 2009, he has been the coleader of the Nanodevices Group at CIC nanoGUNE, which currently has more than 30 members. His current research interests are focused on spintronics in metals, magnetic insulators and 2D materials, where pure spin currents are created, transported and manipulated using different spin-dependent phenomena as a future alternative to conventional electronics. His pioneering studies on spin-charge interconversion have led to an ongoing collaboration with Intel Corp.

He has been invited to the most important international conferences and given seminars at universities and research centres worldwide. He was an Editorial Board member of Physical Review Applied, published by the APS, between 2016 and 2022. He has been awarded the Outstanding Researcher Award by Intel twice (2020 and 2022).