Dr. Ainhoa Altube is a reseacher at the Departamento de Propiedades Opticas Magneticas y de Transporte (POMT), ICMM. She obtained her Ph.D. at the Chemical Engineering and Environment department uf the University of the Basque country in San Sebastian, Spain. She worked in the Laboratoire de Physique des Liquides et Electrochimie (Univ. Paris VI), Paris. Her research is devoted to the synthesis and study of metal-dielectric nanostructured materials, specially by means of the aplication of the electrochemical techniques. She has around 20 publications in refereed journals and conference proceedings.