Bressanone, Italy, February 9-12, 2025

 Peter Rickhaus is leading scientist at Qnami. Within his PhD at Basel University and his Postdoc at the ETH Zurich on quantum transport in twisted bilayer graphene he acquired a deep understanding of quantum physics and nanofabrication. At Qnami, he worked on quantum sensing with NV centers on a wide range of engineered magnetic samples. He contributed to more than 30 research publications and hosts a rich hands-on knowledge for investigative and analytical techniques.

Franca Albertini is Research Director at the Italian National Research Council (CNR) and leader of the Magnetic and Multiferroic Materials Group at the Institute of Materials for Electronics and Magnetism (IMEM). Her main interests are in magnetic and multifunctional properties of bulk and nanoscale materials for energy and biomedical applications. Her current activity is mainly focused on the understanding and tuning the multifunctional properties of magnetic shape memory Heusler compounds, where magnetic and structural degrees of freedom play a primary role.

She has served different scientific societies (e.g. IEEE-Magnetics, European Magnetic Association, European Physical Society) and has been the president of the Italian Magnetism Association (2017-2021). She has been the general chair of JEMS (2012) and IEEE-Advances in Magnetics (2020-21).

Juan-Carlos Rojas-Sánchez received his B.Sc. from Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (Lima, Peru) in 1999, his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Institute Balseiro (Bariloche, Argentina) in 2004 and 2011, respectively. After 4 years as a post-doc in Grenoble (CEA, Spintec and Neel Institute) and Palaiseau (UMPhi CNRS/Thales), he achieved a permanent position as CNRS researcher in France. Since October 2015, he has been working at the Jean Lamour Institute in Nancy, France. Since 2018 he is also head of IJL’s clean room facilities. His main research interests span from spintronics to spin-caloritronics and spin-orbitronics. He is also the organizer of International Workshops in Spintronics held in Latin America such as Spin Peru 2019 and Spin Argentina 2022. In 2020 he received the CNRS Bronze Medal award (for young researchers), and in 2023 he received an ERC Consolidator grant.

Prof. Jingsheng Chen is currently with Department of Materials Science and Engineering, NUS. He obtained his Ph.D degree in 1999 in Lanzhou University, China and joined NUS in December 2007. During 2001-2007 he worked at the Data Storage Institute as a research scientist. He has delivered more than 100 invited presentations in the international conferences. His research interest includes magnetic, and oxide based non-volatile memories, spintronics, ferroelectric tunnel junction, strongly correlated oxide materials. He secured more than S$17 million research grants from government and around US$ 1 million from Seagate Technology and more than S$ 1 million from Globalfoundries. The magnetic recording media he developed has been used in the heating assisted magnetic recording (HAMR). He is 2022 IEEE Magnetic Society Distinguished Lecturer.

Stuart Parkin is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics, Halle, Germany, and an Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg. His research interests include spintronic materials and devices for advanced sensor, memory, and logic applications, oxide thin-film heterostructures, topological metals, exotic superconductors, and cognitive devices. Parkin’s discoveries in spintronics enabled a more than 10,000-fold increase in the storage capacity of magnetic disk drives. For his work that thereby enabled the “big data” world of today, Parkin was awarded the Millennium Technology Award from the Technology Academy Finland in 2014 and, most recently the King Faisal Prize for Science 2021 for his research into three distinct classes of spintronic memories. Parkin is an elected Fellow/ Member: Royal Society (London), Royal Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, German National Academy of Science – Leopoldina, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Indian Academy of Sciences, and TWAS – academy of sciences for the developing world. Parkin has received numerous awards including the American Physical Society International Prize for New Materials (1994); Europhysics Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Solid State Physics (1997); 2009 IUPAP Magnetism Prize and Neel Medal; 2012 von Hippel Award – Materials Research Society; 2013 Swan Medal – Institute of Physics (London); Alexander von Humboldt Professorship − International Award for Research (2014); Millennium Technology Award (2014); ERC Advanced Grant – SORBET (2015); King Faisal Prize for Science 2021; ERC Advanced Grant – SUPERMINT (2022).  Parkin has received 4 honorary doctorates. Parkin has published >670 papers, has >123 issued patents, and has given >800 invited talks around the world. Parkin was named a “Highly Cited Researcher” by Clarivate for the years 2018-2022 and has an h-index of 128.

Dr. Kang L. Wang is currently a Distinguished Professor and the Raytheon Chair Professor in Physical Science and Electronics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is affiliated with the Departments of ECE, MSE, and Physics/Astronomy. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his B.S. degree from National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan). He is a Guggenheim Fellow, Fellows of American Physical Society and IEEE, and a Laureate of Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan. He is an Academician of Academia Sinica. His awards include the IUPAP Magnetism Award and Néel Medal, the IEEE J.J. Ebers Award for electron devices, SRC Technical Excellence Award, the Pan Wen-Yuan Award, Chinese American History Makers Award, and others. He served as the editor-in-chief of IEEE TNANO, editor of Artech House, editors for J of Spins and Science Advances, and other publications. His research areas include topological insulators – condensed matters; spintronics/magnetics and nonvolatile electronics; quantum information and computing; nanoscale physics and materials; molecular beam epitaxy.

Curriculum Vitae of Prof. Xiufeng HanHe received B.S.from Lanzhou Uni.in 1984 and obtained PhD from Jilin Uni.in 1993. He workedas postdoc during 1994-1996inInstitute of Physics(IOP), Chinese Academy of Science (CAS).In1996, he became an Associate Professor in Institute of Semiconductors, CAS. He was promoted to full professor atIOP, CAS in 2002. He was selected asthe Outstanding Young Researcherfrom NSFC in 2003, and received from NSFC the Outstanding Innovation Team Foundationtwice in 2007 and 2010. Prof. Han’s main research field is Spintronics and Magnonics. Hehas co-published 400peer-reviewed papers and authorized100 patents, and presented 70 invited talks at international conferences; edited book entitled “Introduction to Spintronics”; serve as the Editor of J. Magn. Magn. Mater.and the EditorialBoard Member of SPIN, Sensors,Chinese Science Bulletin, and so on.His group and collaboratorshavemadea seriesof research advances,includingnovelmagnetic tunnel junctions(MTJs),Nanoring STT-MRAM, SOT-MRAM, Nanoring MTJ-based spin nano-oscillator & spin microwave detector & spin random number generator, spin resonant tunneling diode, spin light-emitting diode, vertical magnonheterostructures,magnon valve,magnon junction,magnon nonlocal spin Hall magnetoresistance, andnonvolatile multifunctional programmable Spin Logic, etc. Hegotthe AUMS Award 2018, awarded by the Asian Union of Magnetics Societies in IcAUMS 2018, and the First Grade Prize in Science and Technology Progress, Beijing 2013 (Awarded by the Beijing Committee of Science and Technology).

Beth is the Kelen Professor and Associate Head of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota, where she previously held the College of Science & Engineering Distinguished Professorship. She is a Graduate Faculty of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering. Her PhD is from MIT and BS from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). Her research is in magnetic nanowires for applications in RF design and biomedicine, and also in magneto-optical garnets for integrated photonics. She was a visiting professor at IMEC and KU Leuven in Belgium and at CWRU and Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. In 2015, she was an IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer, giving 57 talks in 14 countries that year. SheI was invited to lecture at the IEEE Magnetic Summer School in India (2012), Italy (2013), and hosted the school in Minnesota in 2015. She will be a General Co-Chair, together with Koki Takanashi, of Intermag 2023 in Sendai, Japan.

Dr B.DIENY has been conducting research in magnetism and spin electronics for 35 years. In 2001, he launched SPINTEC laboratory (Spintronics and Technology of components) in Grenoble and cofounded two startup companies in 2006 and 2014. He received two Advanced Research grants from the European Research Council in 2009 and 2014 related to hybrid CMOS/Magnetic Integrated Electronics. He was nominated IEEE Fellow in 2010, received the De Magny Prize from French Academy of Sciences in 2015 and the IEEE Magnetics Society Achievement Award in 2019. His field of expertise covers a broad spectrum from basic research in nanomagnetism and spin-electronics to functional spintronic devices. In 2009, he also launched an activity at the interface between nanomagnetism and biology with a particular focus on magnetically induced mechanical stimulation of cancer cells and pancreatic cells with potential applications for cancer and diabetes treatments.

Guoqiang Yu received B.S. degree in physics from Jilin University, Changchun, China in 2007 and Ph.D. degree in condensed state physics from Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China in 2012. In 2012, he joined University of California, Los Angeles, CA, as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2017, he joined Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science as an associate professor. His major research interests are spin-orbit coupling-related spin-orbit torque effect and magnetic skyrmion in room-temperature magnetic multilayers for spintronic applications. He is coauthor of more than 150 research papers in the field of spintronics. The total citation is > 9000 times.

Prof. Olena Gomonay is a member of INSPIRE-SPICE group headed by Prof. J. Sinova in Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (Germany). She obtained her Master degree in Physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1985. Since that time she worked in the Kurdyumov’s Institute of Metal Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv) where she gained her doctoral degree.

In 1997 she joined a team of National Technical University “KPI” that started a pilot project aimed at foundation of Ukrainian Institute of Physics and Technology. Until 2015 she worked as Professor at the Faculty (later Institute) of Physics and technology combining teaching and scientific activities.  She is an expert in the field antiferromagnetic spintronics, though the field of research includes also different aspects of theory of magnetism, magnetoelasticity and quantum optics.

Web-page:

https://www.sinova-group.physik.uni-mainz.de/team/olena-gomonay/

Victorino Franco is a professor at the Condensed Matter Physics Department of the University of Seville, Spain. His main research interests cover magnetic materials for energy applications, including soft-magnetic, magnetocaloric materials and functional high entropy alloys. He has published more than 220 peer-reviewed technical articles and received more than 10,800 citations to his work, with an h-index of 47. In 2000, he received the Young Scientist Award from the Royal Physical Society of Spain, followed by the Young Scientist Award of the Royal Order of Chivalry of Seville in 2005. He was 2019 IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer on the topic “Magnetocaloric Effect: From Energy Efficient Refrigeration to Fundamental Studies of Phase Transitions”. He also received the Chinese Academy of Sciences President’s International Fellowship in 2020. He is included in the Stanford University World Ranking of Top 2% Scientists. He has served as chair of the Spain Chapter of the IEEE Magnetics Society and chair of the Magnetic Materials Committee of the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS). He has been general chair for the 23rd Soft Magnetic Materials Conference and of the 2022 Joint MMM-Intermag Conference. He currently serves as a scientific manager in the area of functional materials for the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) and as President of the Spanish Magnetism Club (CEMAG).

Mi-Young Im is a staff scientist at Center for X-ray Optics (CXRO)/Materials Science Division (MSD) in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). She received Ph.D. and M.S. from the Department of Physics at Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in South Korea and joined LBNL in 2007 as a postdoctoral fellow. She manages research programs on nanomagnetism and spintronics at CXRO, and is in charge of the magnetic full-field soft X-ray microscope beamline (BL 6.1.2 at ALS). Her current research interests focus on controlling topological spin textures, such as skyrmions and Bloch points, from generation to movement, and soft X-ray microscopy in spintronic systems.

Albert Fert, after a Ph.D. at Université de Paris and a post-doc position at the University of Leeds, became Professor at Université Paris-Sud in 1976. In 1988, he discovered the giant magnetoresistance (GMR). Independently and at the same time, Peter Grünberg also discovered GMR in Germany. The two were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2007.

The discovery of GMR kicked off the development of spintronics and several contributions to this development came from his team at Université Paris-Sud and, after 1995, in the joint laboratory between CNRS and company Thales he cofounded inside University Paris-Sud. From 2007, Albert Fert is Emeritus Professor at Université Paris-Sud (now University Paris-Saclay) and his team in the CNRS-Thales Laboratory developed pioneering works on skyrmions and the exploitation of topological spin textures in spintronics. His most recent research is on orbitronics and teraHz emission by orbitronics.

Joo-Von Kim is a theoretical and computational physicist at the Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (C2N), a research institute jointly operated by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Université Paris-Saclay in Palaiseau, France. He obtained his PhD from the University of Western Australia in 2003 and has held a tenured position at the CNRS since 2004. His research interests lie in the nonlinear and stochastic magnetisation processes in nanoscale materials, with a particular focus on topological solitons and spin wave dynamics. He has co-authored two book chapters and over 120 research articles.

Gianluca Gubbiotti is Research Director at the Perugia Institute of Materials of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), Italy. He received his PhD in materials science from the University of Camerino, Italy, in 1998. He has long-standing expertise in the study of fundamental and applied aspects of magnetization dynamics in magnetic nanostructures by Brillouin light scattering spectroscopy. He is also a leading expert in studying the spin-wave band structure of planar and layered magnonic crystals. Dr. Gubbiotti has authored and co-authored about 215 peer-reviewed papers in international journals and 12 book chapters on spin waves in magnetic nanostructures. His main research interests are spin dynamics of thin and ultrathin magnetic film and multilayers, magnetic properties of arrays of magnetic dots and wires, Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction, magnonic crystals and hybrid magnonic heterostructures.

Prof. Johan Åkerman received his Ph.D. in Materials Physics from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 1998. After a post-doc at University of California, San Diego, he joined Motorola, for four years, to be responsible for MRAM reliability. The MRAM technology he helped to launch remains the most commercially successfully MRAM to date. In 2005, he returned to Sweden to start his own research group at the Department of Materials and Nanophysics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. In 2008 he was recruited as Full Professor to the Physics Department at University of Gothenburg, while remaining a Guest Professor at KTH. Prof. Åkerman has been working with spintronic technology for the last 25 years and has authored about 300 scientific papers with over 14 000 citations. He holds about 15 patents and is the founder of three start-up companies, NanOsc AB, commercializing spintronic devices, NanOsc Instruments AB, designing and manufacturing spectrometers for ferromagnetic resonance measurements at cryogenic and room temperatures, and SpinWave Computing AB, commercializing spin wave based Ising Machines. His main projects are related to spin torque and spin Hall nano-oscillators, with particular focus on mutual synchronization, magnetodynamical solitons, and oscillator networks for Ising Machines and neuromorphic computing.

Andrei Slavin received PhD degree in Physics in 1977 from the St. Petersburg Technical University, St. Petersburg, Russia. Dr. Slavin developed a state-of-the-art theory of spin-torque oscillators, which has numerous applications in the theory of current-driven magnetization dynamics in magnetic nanostructures. His current research support includes multiple grants from the U.S. Army, DARPA, SRC and the National Science Foundation. This research involves international collaborations with leading scientists in many countries, including Germany, Ukraine, France, Italy, and the United States. Dr. Slavin is a frequently invited speaker at magnetism conferences around the world.

Andrei Slavin is Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the IEEE and Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Physics Department at the Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA.

From 2003 to 2007 I studied physical chemistry at the National University of Cordoba (Argentina) and from 2008 to 2010 I conducted my doctoral studies at the Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research while enrolled in the physics doctoral school at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. During this time I performed studies on magnetic domain wall dynamics and magneto-transport in devices based on diluted ferromagnetic semiconductors (DMS). I also designed and realised the concept of light control of magnetic properties in DMS devices by surface functionalisation with organic dye-molecules. From 2011 to 2012 I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Institut Néel in Grenoble, where I worked on electric field control of magnetic anisotropy and domain wall dynamics in ferromagnetic nanodevices. Since 2013 I am a CNRS researcher at the Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies, my main scientific interests are oriented towards the control of domain wall dynamics in multifunctional nanodevices using magneto-ionics and interface engineering.

Fuchs received is Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Cornell in 2007. His thesis research on spin-transfer torques in nanoscale magnetic tunnel junctions contributed to the physics underlying STT-MRAM.  In his postdoc at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Fuchs changed focus to the study of quantum control over individual spins in diamond.  In 2011, he joined the Cornell faculty of Applied and Engineering Physics, where his group works broadly in spintronics and quantum engineering using spin.  Current research interests include high resolution magnetic microscopy, antiferromagnetic spintronics, coherent magnonics, quantum metrology with spins, and development of hybrid quantum systems.

Dr. Katrin Schultheiss received her PhD in Physics (Dr. rer. nat.) from the Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany in 2013 on spin wave transport in two-dimensional microstructures. Since 2015, she is with the Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf in Dresden, Germany. As a member of the Department of Magnetism, her research is focussed on the study of linear and nonlinear magnetization dynamics in micro- and nanostructure as well as in spin textures using Brillouin light scattering microscopy. For her achievements on “nonlinear magnonics as the foundation of spin-based neuromorphic computing”  she received the HZDR Forschungspreis in 2022. 
 
Some recent relevant references on that topic:
– L. Körber, et al. Pattern recognition with a magnon-scattering reservoir. arXiv:2211.02328 
– L. Körber, et al. Nonlocal stimulation of three-magnon splitting in a magnetic vortex.
PRL 125, 207203 (2020). 
– K. Schultheiss, et al. Excitation of whispering gallery magnons in a magnetic vortex. PRL 122, 097202 (2019).

Kai Liu is a Professor and McDevitt Chair in Physics at the Georgetown University. His research interest is in experimental studies of magnetism and spin transport in nanostructured materials. He was recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and a UC Davis Chancellor’s Fellowship. He is also elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK), American Physical Society, IEEE, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the US National Academy of Inventors. He served as the General Chair for the 2016 MMM in New Orleans, and an Associate Editor for APL Materials (2018-2019). He is the currently the Chair of the IUPAP Commission on Magnetism (2021-2024).

Gaspare VARVARO (Male, CNR – ISM), PhD in Material Science (2007, University “La Sapienza” of Roma, Italy), works as researcher at the Institute of Structure of Matter of the National Research Council (CNR – ISM), Italy, since 2009, where he directs the Nanostructured Magnetic Material Laboratory (nM2-Lab, www.nm2lab.com). His research activity spans from the fabrication to the characterization of magnetic and magneto-transport properties of nanostructured materials including single-phase magnetic materials, magnetic composites, and hybrid/multifunctional systems (thin film multilayers, nanoparticles, and nano-patterned systems) for fundamental studies and applications (energy and environment, technologies for sensors/actuators, information storage, biomedicine). His research activity was witnessed by more than 80 papers, 4 book chapters, 1 patent and about 120 oral contributions to national and international conferences and workshops (h-index: 23 – Google Scholar; 21 – Scopus). He was co-editor of a book titled “Ultra-High-Density Magnetic Recording: Storage Materials and Media Designs” (Pan Stanford Publishing, 2016). He has been the beneficiary of funds granted on competitive national and international calls (~1200 k€ to date) being currently CNR – ISM Unit Leader of the i) EU ERAMIN 3 Project “Recycling End of Life permanent magnets by innovative sintering and 3D printing” (2022 – 2024), ii) IT-PRIN project “Understanding and controlling magnetic inertia: towards terahertz spin-based technologies” (2022 – 24) and iii) IT E-RIHS.it-Lazio infrastructure project, and work-package co-leader of the IT MISE PON project “Autonomous and flexible manufacturing and augmented reality techniques for processes automation” (2020 – 23). He regularly serves as referee for international journals and as independent expert evaluator for International Projects. He is also involved in education and dissemination activities by training of PhD, master, and high-school students and in the organization of scientific events targeted to the large public and research professionals in magnetism and material science.

Jordi Sort leads the ‘Group of Smart Nanoengineered Materials, Nanomechanics and Nanomagnetism’ (with ca. 20 researchers) as an ICREA Research Professor at UAB. His research is focused on a wide variety of materials (thin films, lithographed structures, porous materials and nanocomposites) with emphasis on their magnetic, magnetoelectric and mechanical performance. He received awards from the Catalan and Spanish Physical Societies as well as the Federation of European Materials Societies. So far, Prof. Sort has supervised 17 PhD Theses, has published > 350 articles (11275 citations in WoS), has issued 6 patents and has been Coordinator of 2 European Training Networks and Principal Investigator of a CoG, a PoC and an AdG from the European Research Council.

Claudia Felser studied chemistry and physics at the University of Cologne, completing there both her diploma in solid state chemistry (1989) and her doctorate in physical chemistry (1994).
After postdoctoral fellowships at the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart (Germany) and the CNRS in Nantes (France), she joined the University of Mainz in 1996 as an assistant professor (C1) becoming a full professor there in 2003 (C4). She is currently Director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden. In 2001 Felser received Order of Merit (Landesverdienstorden) of the state Rheinland Pfalz for the foundation of the first NAT-LAB for school students at the University Mainz with a focus in female school students. She is fellow of the IEEE Magnetic Society, American Physical Society, Institute of Physics, London, CIFAR Canada and the Materials Research Society of India. In 2018, she became a member of the Leopoldina, the German National Academy of Sciences, and acatech, the German National Academy of Science and Engineering. In 2011 and again in 2017, she received an ERC Advanced grant. In 2019, Claudia Felser was awarded the APS James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials together with Bernevig (Princeton) and Dai (Hongkong). In 2020, she was elected to the United States National Academy of Engineering (NAE), in 2021 to the United States National Academy of Sciences (NAS), and in 2022 to the Academy of Sciences and Literature (Mainz, Germany). In 2022 she was awarded the Max Born Prize and Medal of DPG (German Physical Society) and IOP (Institute of Physics) and the Wilhelm-Ostwald-Medal of the Saxon Academy of Science. Her research foci are the design, synthesis, and physical characterization of new quantum materials, in particular, Heusler compounds and topological materials for energy conversion and spintronics.

Andrew Kent is a Professor of Physics and Director of the Center for Quantum Phenomena at New York University. He received a B.Sc. with Distinction in Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell University in 1982 and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in Applied Physics in 1988. His research interests are in the physics of magnetic nanostructures, nanomagnetic devices and magnetic information storage. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and the IEEE. He received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Lorraine, France, in 2013, the French Jean d’Alembert Research Fellowship in 2017, and was named professor at the University of Lorraine in 2018.

Dr. Peter Fischer received his PhD in Physics (Dr.rer.nat.) from the Technical University in Munich, Germany in 1993 on pioneering work with X-ray magnetic circular dichroism in rare earth systems and his Habilitation (Dr.rer.nat.habil.) from the University in Würzburg, Germany in 2000 based on his pioneering work on Magnetic Soft X-ray microscopy.

Since 2004 he is with the Material Sciences Division (MSD) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley CA. He is Senior Scientist and Principal Investigator in the Non-Equilibrium Magnetic Materials Program and serves as Deputy Division Director at MSD. His research program is focused on the use of polarized synchrotron radiation for the study of fundamental problems in magnetism. Since 2014 he is also Adjunct Professor for Physics at the University of California in Santa Cruz.

Dr. Fischer has published so far over 230 peer reviewed papers and has given >340 invited presentations at national and international conferences. He was nominated as Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Magnetics Society in 2011. For his achievements of “hitting the 10nm resolution milestone with soft X-ray microscopy” he received the Klaus Halbach Award at the Advanced Light Source in 2010.

Dr. Fischer is Fellow of the APS and IEEE.

Some recent relevant references on that topic.

Publications:

– R. Streubel, E. Tsymbal, P. Fischer, Perspective: Magnetism in Curved Geometries, JAP 129 210902 (2021)

– D. Raftrey, A. Hierro-Rodriguez, A. Fernandez-Pacheco, P. Fischer, The road to 3-dim nanomagnetism: Steep curves and architectured crosswalks, JMMM (2022)

– P. Fischer, D. Sanz-Hernández, R. Streubel, A. Fernández-Pacheco, Research update: Launching a new dimension with 3D magnetic nanostructures, APL Materials 8 010701 (2020)

Presentation:

– P. Fischer, Synthesis and characterization of 3D nanomagnetic structures (Tutorial on “Towards 3D Nanomagnetism”), 67th Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM 2022), Minneapolis, MN 31.10.-4.11.2022

Ricardo Ferreira is the Group Leader of the Spintronics research group at INL. He received his PhD in Physics Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) in 2008 upon his work on Ion Beam deposited magnetic tunnel junctions targeting hard disk drive read heads, non‐volatile memories and magnetic field sensor applications.

At INL the work of Ricardo has been focused on the production of MTJs using MgO barriers and the development of two high yield and high uniformity fabrication processes on 200mm wafers : a micro‐fabrication process (for the production of devices down to 1μm2) and a nanofabrication process (for the production of devices <50nm). The current research goals include the linearization of full signal MgO MTJs, the production of magnetometers for operation under harsh conditions, the fabrication of magnetic field sensors targeting the detection of pT fields in the 1/f dominated frequency region, the production of devices that explore spin transfer and spin hall effects (nano-oscillators, MRAM cells, other nano-scale devices executing high level functions including neuromorphic computation), the incorporation of perpendicular magnetization materials on MTJs and the monolithic integration of MTJs with MEMS and CMOS devices. Ricardo is engaged in several projects concerning the application of MTJ devices in high TRL Industrial applications, including projects aiming the production of cyber-physical systems as enablers of IIOT and Industry 5.0 ready production systems, as well as space applications. He is co-author of 130+ peer-reviewed publications, co-inventor in 4 patent applications submitted at INL He is also the founder of an INL Spin-Off seeking the commercialization of a novel solution for the monitoring of tools and critical assets.

Prof. Dr. Salvador Pané i Vidal (Barcelona, 1980) is currently a Professor of Materials for Robotics at the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS) and co-director of the Multi-Scale Robotics Lab at ETH Zürich. He has authored or co-authored more than 150 articles in international peer-reviewed journals and books for education in science. Prof. Pané is currently working on bridging chemistry and electrochemistry with robotics at small scales. In the field of micro- and nanororobotics, his major focus has been the miniaturization of magnetic materials and conductive polymers and hydrogels for targeted drug delivery. At present, he teaches a course on nanorobotics and supervises several on-going PhD theses. Dr. Pané is/has been also the coordinator for a FET Open project (MANAQA), and a FET Proactive (ANGIE). In June 2013, Prof. Pané was awarded the highly competitive Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The grant provides 1.5 million euros over five years to investigate composite nanomaterials with magnetoelectric properties for chemical and biomedical applications. From 2015 to 2019, he was the Chair of the COST Action “e-MINDS: Electrochemical processing methodologies and corrosion protection for device and systems miniaturization” which brings together more than 40 European academic and industrial participants related to the areas of electrochemical manufacturing and corrosion science. Since 2016, he serves on the board of editors in the journal Applied Materials Today (Elsevier). In 2019, he was appointed associate editor in Frontiers in Bioengineering. He represents Switzerland in the European Academy of Surface Technology (EAST). He is also co-founders of the startup Magnes AG. In November 2017, he was awarded a Consolidator Grant (ERC). The Grant provides 2.0 million euros over five years to develop nanorobots that can be remotely instructed to produce electrical fields for biomedical applications. In 2019, Dr. Pané was honored with the Big-on-Small Award at the International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS). He has also received the ERC Proof-of-Concept grant (2019) to develop magnetoelectric reactors for water cleaning applications.

Originally from Ukraine, earned a Ph.D. in physics at Harvard University in 2003. Fol- lowing a stint as a Harvard Junior Fellow, he has been on faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles, since 2006 (tenured in 2009, full professor 2013). His main interests lie in the theory of quantum transport and nonequilibrium dynamics in low-dimensional electron systems, with a focus on spin and topology.

YoshiChika Otani received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Keio University in 1984, 1986, and 1989. He was a research fellow (1989–1991) at the Physics Department of Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, and a researcher (1991–1992) at the Laboratoire Louis Néel, CNRS, France. He was an assistant professor (1992–1995) at the Department of Physics, Keio University; an associate professor at the Department of Materials Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University (1995–2002); and became a team leader (since 2001) of the Quantum Nano-Scale Magnetics Research Team at FRS-RIKEN. In 2004 he became a professor at ISSP, the University of Tokyo. Since 2013, he has also been a team leader of the Quantum Nano-Scale Magnetism Research Team at CEMS-RIKEN.
Prof. Otani has published over 350 technical articles in peer-reviewed journals, including book chapters and review articles, and has given more than 100 invited and plenary presentations at international conferences. He has coordinated the Japanese MEXT supporting the 5-year “Nano Spin Conversion Science” project since 2014 to elucidate the interconversion mechanisms among phonon, photon, magnon, and electrons. He was also a committee member of C.9 magnetism of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics from 2011 to 2017 and vice chair from 2018 to 2021. He is a member of the IEEE Magnetics Society. Since 2022, he has been heading the Franco-Japanese research project developing the “magnon-phonon transducer” as a LANEF chair of Excellence at the University of Grenoble Alpes.

Pedram Khalili is Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northwestern University, where he is Director of the Physical Electronics Research Laboratory, and Director of Graduate Studies of the Applied Physics Program. Pedram received the B.Sc. degree from Sharif University of Technology (Iran) in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree (cum laude) from Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) in 2008, both in electrical engineering. Prior to joining Northwestern, he was an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Pedram received the Northwestern ECE department’s Best Teacher Award in 2020. He serves on the Editorial Boards of Multifunctional Materials and Journal of Physics: Photonics (IOP), and is a member of the Flash Memory Summit conference advisory board. Pedram is Chair of the Chicago Chapter of the IEEE Magnetics Society, and represents the IEEE Magnetics Society on the IEEE Task Force for Rebooting Computing (TFRC) Executive Committee. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Teruo Ono received the B.S., M.S., and D.Sc. from Kyoto University in 1991, 1993, and 1996, respectively. After a one year stay as a postdoctoral associate at Kyoto University, he moved to Keio University where he became an assistant professor. In 2000, he moved to Osaka University where he became a lecturer and an associate professor. Since 2004, he has been working at Kyoto University, where he is now a professor. He has published over 400 technical articles in peer-reviewed journals, including book chapters and review articles, and has given more than 140 invited presentations at international conferences.

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