Federico Casanova

Dr. Federico Casanova is a director on the Magritek board, and co-CEO of Magritek GmbH in Germany where he is responsible for applications, development, and sales operations in the EMEA region. He studied physics at Cordoba in Argentina where he did his master thesis and subsequently his PhD in NQR imaging. After finishing his PhD Federico moved to Aachen, Germany, as a Humboldt fellow to join the group of Bernhard Blümich for his postdoc. He spent ten years at Bernhards lab as senior scientist in charge of the low field research line. There, he published over 50 articles in scientific journals, filed several patents in the field of mobile NMR, and edited a book on single-sided NMR. His expertise is in NMR hardware and methods, NMR imaging, and spectroscopy.

Federico and Juan have been working together developing permanent magnet-based NMR sensors since they both moved to Germany. They introduced a robust mechanical magnetic field shimming approach which turn led to the development of the profile NMR-MOUSE, first, and a highly homogeneous Halbach magnet for spectroscopy, later. Bernhard, Juan, and Federico started ACT GmbH in 2006, a company that specialized in the production of high-quality permanent magnets for NMR relaxation, imaging and spectroscopy. Later ACT merged with Magritek.