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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.

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.

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.

The IEEE Magnetics Society is the leading international professional organization for magnetism and related professional throughout the world. The IEEE Magnetics Society promotes the advancement of science, technology, applications and training in magnetism. It fosters presentation and exchange of information among  its members and within the global technical community, including education and training of young enginneers and scientists, It seeks to nurture positive interactions between all national and regional societies acting in the field of magnetism.

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