Irene Castro Fernández is a PhD student in the Optomechanics' Group at Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM-CSIC). She researches and develops optomechanical devices for classical and quantum sensing in nanostructured membranes, photonic and phonoic crystals, and topological waveguides. She studied de Degree of Physics at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) in the specialty of Fundamental Physics. During the degree she received the Collaboration Scholarship from the Ministry of Education with which she carried out her Final Degree Project in the Laser Physics, Quantum Optics and Non-Linear Optics Group of the UCM. In 2020 she received the JAE Intro-CSIC Scholarship where she began her research activity at the Institute of Micro and Nanotechnology (IMN-CSIC) with the Bionanomechanics Group. During that year, she also studied the Master's Degree in Condensed Matter Physics in Nanophysics and Biological Systems at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and was awarded with the 2021 Talent Acquisition Award in Technological Innovation from the Madrid City Council for her Master's Thesis.
