Manuel Bibes, born on July 15, 1976, in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, is a French physicist specializing in functional oxides,[1] multiferroic materials, and spintronics.

After earning an engineering degree from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse in 1998, Bibes completed his Ph.D. under the supervision of Josep Fontcuberta at the ICMAB, at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2001, focusing on thin manganite films and their application in spintronics.

[8] In 2016, in collaboration with the Spintec[9] laboratory, he demonstrated that non-magnetic oxide interfaces can be used as ultrasensitive spin detectors.

[13] In October 2024, he co-founds the start-up company Nellow, together with Laurent Vila and Jean-Philippe Attané from Spintec.

Nellow aims to develop and commercialize chips with an ultralow power consumption for logic and artificial intelligence.