Dr BELMOUBARIK is an assistant professor at the Institute of applied physics of Mohammed VI polytechnic university, Morocco after he completed his PhD (spintronics and materials science) from Tohoku university and two postdocs at NIMS Japan (ImPACT project) and INL Portugal (LIVESAVER project). He was the first to fabricate and study metallic fcc (111)-based magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) as alternatives of the conventional bcc (001) MgO-MTJs using different tunnel barriers. His research interests also include the optoelectronics properties of Zinc oxide semiconductors, Schottky interfaces, ferroelectric tunnel junctions and thin films technology. Recently, he is focusing on the development of 2D materials devices for exploring their opto-magnetic properties. He received three competitive grants from JSPS Japan and EU-Horizons 2020 and contributed to filling three patents in collaboration with industrial partners.