Begoña Abad got her degree in Physics in June 2010, in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. During the last three years of her degree she collaborated with the "Magnetic Devices Group" of this University studying the fabrication by electrodeposition and post-oxidation of iron oxide nanowires, as well as their "morphological and functional" characterization. After that, she got her MSc. Master Degree in Applied Physics with a special orientation in Nanomaterials in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (June 2011). Since January 2011 she works as a PhD student in the group of Thermoelectric Materials in the Instituto de Microelectrónica de Madrid (Spain).