| Ana Sanchez | |
| Workplaces: | University of Liverpool Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| Alma Mater: | University of Cadiz University of Granada |
Ana M. Sanchez is a Spanish microscopist who is a professor at the University of Warwick. She works on the development of electron microscopy for the advanced characterisation of materials.
Sanchez studied chemical sciences at the University of Granada.[1] Sanchez studied gallium nitride heteroepitaxial systems for her doctoral research at the University of Cádiz. She stayed at the University of Cádiz as an assistant professor for four years, before moving to the French National Centre for Scientific Research as a postdoctoral researcher in 2002. In 2003, she moved to the University of Liverpool, where she worked as a research fellow in materials science.
Sanchez works on advanced electron microscopy for condensed matter physics. She joined the University of Warwick in 2009, where she was a Science City Senior Research Fellow. At Warwick, she developed new strategies for semiconductor nanostructures; including functional oxides, 2D materials and van de Waals crystals.[2] She has studied the interface between ferro-electric and ferro-magnetic materials, showing that there was a special texture in ferroelectrics that matches the spin crystal phase of ferromagnets.[3] She showed that at the nanoscale ferromagnetic and ferroelectric materials had almost identical properties.[3]