NanomagCOST (Nanomagnetism Solutions to Social Challenges; Ref: S2018/NMT-4321) is a multidisciplinary consortium of magnetism researchers from Madrid. It is based on two former Activities Programs funded by Madrid Regional Government (Nanobiomagnet, 2010-2014, and NanoFrontMag, 2014-2018), and it aims to provide solutions to the social challenges pointed by the European Commission through magnetism research. NanomagCOST’s work is framed in four main challenges: i) disruptive information technologies with low power consumption; ii) magnetic sensors; iii) strategic magnetic materials, and iv) applications in oncology and neurology.

The NanomagCOST Program integrates a select interdisciplinary group of 80 scientist from four academic institutions (UAM, UCM, CSIC e IMDEA Nanociencia) from Madrid, organized in five research groups (coordinated respectively by Rodolfo Miranda, Herman Suderow, Pilar Marín, Manuel Vázquez, and Alberto Bollero) and four laboratories from the Madrid RedLab Network (led by Agustina Asenjo, ICMM-CSIC, Juan de la Figuera, IQFR-CSIC, Miguel Ángel Ramos, UAM, and Paolo Perna, IMDEA Nanociencia). To address the objectives of basic character and the envisaged applications, NanomagCOST counts on the knowledge and skills of physicists, chemists, biologists, and engineers, who will continue with former research avenues and will add new ones to maintain Madrid as an international reference in Nanomagnetism applied to Health, IT, and Materials fields.