Victorino Franco is a professor at the Condensed Matter Physics Department of the University of Seville, Spain, and Director of the Multidisciplinary Unit for Energy Science. His main research interests cover magnetic materials for energy applications, including soft-magnetic, magnetocaloric materials and functional high entropy alloys. He has published more than 250 peer-reviewed technical articles and received more than 15,600 citations to his work, with an h-index of 59.

In 2000, he received the Young Scientist Award from the Royal Physical Society of Spain, followed by the Young Scientist Award of the Royal Order of Chivalry of Seville in 2005. In 2019, he was Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Magnetics Society, delivering more than 65 invited lectures at top research institutions during the year. He has served as chair of the Spanish Club of Magnetism (CEMAG), of the Spain Chapter of the IEEE Magnetics Society, and of the Magnetic Materials Committee of the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS). He has been general chair for the 23rd Soft Magnetic Materials Conference and of the 2022 Joint MMM-Intermag Conference. He became Fellow of IEEE in 2024 and the TMS held the honorary symposium “Advanced Soft Magnets and Magnetocaloric Materials: An FMD Symposium Honoring Victorino Franco” in Orlando in 2024

Plenary talk: Advancements in Magnetocaloric and Thermomagnetic materials: State of the art and perspectives