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Kai Liu is a Professor and McDevitt Chair in Physics at the Georgetown University. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the Johns Hopkins University in 1998, and then carried out postdoctoral research at the University of California - San Diego. He joined the University of California - Davis faculty in 2001, and moved to the Georgetown University in 2018. 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 and American Association for the Advancement of Science. He served as the General Chair for the 61st Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (2016 MMM), and an Associate Editor for APL Materials (2018-2019). He is the Chair of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) Commission on Magnetism (2022-2024).

Prof. Gene Stanley is a Distinguished Professor Boston University. He is a Director of Center for Polymer Studies. He is an Elected Member, in National Academy of Sciences, 2004. He has awarded with Boltzmann Medal at International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), 2004. He is a Chair for National Academy of Sciences/Keck Futures Initiative on Complexity during 2007–2008.

Dr. Parans Paranthaman is a Distinguished Corporate Fellow at the Chemical Sciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Dr. Paranthaman is also a Distinguished UT-Battelle Inventor at ORNL, and fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), Materials Research Society (MRS), AAAS, American Physical Society (APS), American Ceramic Society (Acers), ASM International and the Institute of Physics (IOP), London, UK. He has a joint faculty appointment with the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Bredesen Center as a Professor since 2010. He earned his PhD degree in materials science and solid state chemistry under the guidance of Professor G V Subba Rao from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1988. He was a postdoctoral fellow with Professor John Goodenough (1988-1991) who won the Nobel prize for chemistry (2019) at the University of Texas, Austin, Center for Materials Science and Engineering and a research associate with Professor Allen Hermann (1991-1993) at the superconductivity laboratories, Department of Physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He joined the Chemistry Department at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in May 1993. He was named the Lockheed-Martin (ORNL) scientist of the year in 1997. He was named ORNL Inventor of the year in 2016. He was named the Top Scientist of the year at ORNL in 2019. He has authored or co-authored more than 415 journal publications with an “h-index” of 68 (Google scholar citation) and issued 52 U.S. Patents related to superconductivity, energy storage and solar cells. He has commercialized and licensed his technologies to six companies. He ranked #2 in worldwide citations in the high temperature superconductivity research in the last decade (1999-2009). He has also coedited several books and co-organized several conferences and workshops. He has won several awards including DOE outstanding mentor awards, seven R&D 100 Awards and three National and two Regional Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) Awards for developing high performance second-generation superconducting wires for electric-power applications and flexible thin film crystalline Silicon photovoltaics on RABiTS. Since 2004, he is one of the associate editors for the Journal of American Ceramic Society. He also participates as the National Academy of Inventors Fellow Selection Committee member.His present research focuses on the development ofadditive manufacturing of permanent magnets and motors, lithium separation from geothermal brine, recovery of carbon from recycled tires for clean energy applications, and development of electrode materials for energy storage applications.

Evgeny Tsymbal is aGeorge Holmes University Distinguished Professor at Department of Physics and Astronomy of theUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), and Director of the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).He also served as Director of the Center for NanoFerroic Devices (CNFD) sponsored jointly by Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC)and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Prior to his appointment at UNL,he was a senior research scientist at University of Oxford, UK, a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Research Center-Jülich, Germany, and a research scientist at the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Kurchatov Institute inMoscow.Evgeny Tsymbal’s research is focused on predictive modellingof advanced functional materials relevant to nanoelectronics and spintronics. Heis co-author of nearly 300 papers, review articles and book chapters and is a co-editor of three-volume Spintronics Handbook: Spin Transport and Magnetism published in 2019. Evgeny Tsymbal is a fellow of the American Physical Society, a fellow of the Institute of Physics, and a recipient of the UNL’s Outstanding Research and Creative Activity (ORCA)Award.

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Dr. Phan is a Professor of Physics at the University of South Florida. He received a Ph.D. degree in Engineering Physics from Bristol University, United Kingdom in 2006. He is a leading expert in the development of advanced magnetocaloric and magnetoimpedance materials for energy-efficient magnetic refrigeration and smart sensor technologies, respectively. Recently, his group has discovered tunable room-temperature ferromagnetism in atomically thin van der Waals materials that have potential to transform the fields of spintronics and quantum computation. He has published more than 300 peer-reviewed journal papers (over 12,000 citations, h-index: 55 from Google Scholar), 7 review papers, 5 book chapters, and 1 textbook. Presently, he serves as a Managing Editor for the Journal of Science: Advanced Materials and Devices, the Editor for Journal of Electronic Materials, the Editor for Applied Sciences, the and the Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports. He was awarded an Honorary Doctoral Degree by Vietnam National University - Hanoi (2021), the recipient of The USF Outstanding Faculty Research Achievement Awards (2017, 2019, 2021), the recipient of The USF Outstanding Graduate Faculty Mentor Award (2018, HM), and the recipient of The Honorary Medal by Vietnam National University - Hanoi (2018). He has delivered plenary, keynote and invited talks at professional meetings on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM, ICM, APS, MRS, INTERMAG, TMS, ICAM, ICAMR, ISAMMA, IcAUMS) and organized numerous international conferences on Nanomaterials, Energy, and Nanotechnology.

Cheong has made ground-breaking contributions to the research field of enhanced physical functionalities in complex materials originating from collective correlations and collective phase transitions such as colossal magnetoresistive and colossal magneto electric effects in complex oxides. He has also made pivotal contributions to mesoscopic self-organization in solids, including the nanoscale charge stripe formation, mesoscopic electronic phase separation in mixed valent transition metal oxides, and the formation of topological vortex domains in multiferroics, which was found to be synergistically relevant to mathematics (graph theory) and even cosmology. He has published more than 870 scientific papers, and the total citation is more than 55,000 (Web of Science: seven papers cited more than 1000 times, and his h-index is 108). His educational background includes mathematics in college, string theory (about three years) in graduate school, and solid state physics for Ph. D.. He has worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, AT&T Bell Laboratories, and Rutgers Center for Emergent Materials (RCEM), Rutgers University. He is currently the director of center for Quantum Materials Synthesis, the director of Rutgers Center for Emergent Materials, a Henry Rutgers Professor and a Board of Governors Professor at Rutgers, a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Postech in S. Korea as well as in Nanjing University in China. His work on complex oxides has been recognized through various prizes, including the 2007 Hoam Prize sponsored by Samsung, the KBS 2009 Global Korean Award, and the 2010 James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials sponsored by IBM.

Prof. Budhani is a professor of physics at Morgan State University Baltimore and adjunct professor at the University of Maryland – USA. He received his Ph. D. degree in Physics from I. I. T. Delhi in the year 1982. This was followed by four years of research at the University of California Los Angeles, first as a post doctoral fellow and then as member of the research faculty. He moved to Brookhaven National Laboratory New York in 1988 and worked there as a staff scientist till 1994, and then joined IIT Kanpur as a professor of physics. Prof. Budhani was the director of the National Physical Laboratory New Delhi during the period 2009 to 2014. He worked at AFRL - Wright Patterson Laboratory as a Senior Fellow of the National Research Council before joining Morgan State as a professor of physics in the year 2018.

José Rivas is a Professor of Physics at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (www.usc.es). His expertise is related to the preparation and characterization of nanostructured magnetic materials. Based on the research carried out at the USC, Rivas’ group created a high technology-based Spin Off Company called NANOGAP, (www.nanogap.es). The research and entrepreneurial efforts of Prof. Rivas, his collaborators and colleagues over the years have been widely recognized. He was the founding Director (2005-14) and responsible for the implementation of the INL-International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Braga, Portugal (http://inl.int/). He is an Elected Member of the Royal Galician Academy of Sciences and received the 2018 Salvador Velayos Award, conferred by the Spanish Magnetism Club. J. Rivas is the author of a variety of book chapters, twelve patents and more than four hundred articles.

Claire Wilhelm, biophysicist, was recruited as staff CNRS scientist in 2003, after obtaining her PhD in 2002 in soft matter physics. Since then, she has oriented her research to the biomedical field. Her works lied at the crossroads of magnetism, biophysics and nanomedicine and were resolutely multidisciplinary, taking advantage of the physical properties of magnetic nanoparticles to develop more effective treatments and new methods of medical investigation. She was appointed CNRS research director in 2013 and senior research director in 2018. She received the CNRS bronze medal in 2011, the Louis Ancel prize in 2014, an ERC consolidator grant in 2014 devoted to magnetic tissue engineering and biotransformation of nanoparticles in living tissues, and an ERC consolidator in 2019 for studying magnetic-responsive and bio-made anticancer vectors. She has co-authored 200+ publications (15 500+ citations, h-index 65) and she delivered 60+ invited lectures.

Dr. Arcady Zhukov received Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Solid State Physics (Chernogolovka) of the Russian Academy of Science, in 2010- Doctor of Science (habilitation) in Moscow State “Lomonosov” University. Present employment: Ikerbasque Research professor at the Advanced Polymers and Materials of the University of Basque Country, Spain. He has published more than 600 referred papers in the international journals (total number of citations of A. Zhukov’s papers, updated February 12, 2020: 9321, Citation H-index 53(WOS)/ 12021 and H=60(Google scholar)). A. Zhukov, edited conference proceedings, chaired Donostia International Conference on Nanoscaled Magnetism (DICNMA), III Joint European Magnetic Symposia, Donostia International Workshop on Energy, Materials and Nanotechnology – DINEMN, 7-th International Workshop on Magnetic Wires (2015), 24th International Symposium on Metastable, Amorphous and Nanostructured Materials (ISMANAM 2017), several sessions at various MMM and Intermag Conferences, gave a number of plenary, keynote and invited talks at few international conferences. He is an associate Editor of IEEE Magnetic letters and International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems, member of several editorial boards(Sensors, Crystals…) and various committees of International Conferences (MMM, Intermag, MISM, ICSM…). A. Zhukov edited two books: “Novel Functional Magnetic Materials” and “High Performance Soft Magnetic Materials”, wrote two books: “Magnetic properties and applications of ferromagnetic microwires with amorphous and nanocrystalline structure” and “Magnetic sensors based on thin magnetically soft wires with tuneable magnetic properties and its applications”, more than 20 book chapters (including one published in the Handbook of Magnetic Materials ed. by Prof. K. Buschow).

Prof. Dr. Eng. Ali H. Reshak (H-index WoS=43 and 47 at google scholar, with more than 10500 citations) is Full Professor at Czech Technical University –Prague- Czech Republic, Full Professor and Principal Research Fellow at University Malaysia Perlis, Malaysia and Full Professor at University of Basrah, Iraq. Prof. Reshak is the winner of the Abdul Hameed Shoman Award. He is a Durham University senior fellow (UK) and Malaya University Principal Research fellow (Malaysia). Recently Prof. Dr. Eng. Ali H. Reshak had been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Engineering from the University of Malaysia Perlis for his achievements in Sciences and Technology. He is well recognized in the field of nanotechnology, Catalysis, Photocatalysis, solar cells, renewable energy, energy efficiency in built environment, green energy and environment, electronic structure, linear, nonlinear optical properties and the other properties, rechargeable batteries, hybrid materials, alloys, biological crystals, Ionic liquid, single crystals, quantum electronics, optoelectronic materials and the devices based on them, bulk and low dimensional nanoscale materials such as nanotubes, nanowires, nonomaterials, Graphene, Graphane, Graphite and thin-films, novel multi-functional materials which can produce visible, ultraviolet and infra-red laser radiation at wavelengths that are presently inaccessible via conventional sources for many industrial, medical, biological and entertainment applications, laser design and laser applications, microscopy and spectroscopy. Prof. Reshak, expert in laser design he designed and constructed several laser systems for medical care for example; laser system for psoriasis, human skin treatment, tuberculosis treatment (TB) treatment, removing wrinkles ... etc. Also expert in material engineering, biophysics, nanotechnology ... etc. Prof. Reshak has published more than 600 scientific articles, seven books, five chapters in boos, five software, three international patents. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, American Optical Society and the European Laser Society.

ICREA Research Professor Josep Nogués earned his degree from the UniversitatAutònoma de Barcelona (Spain) in 1986. After obtaining his PhD at the KungligaTekniskaHöskolan in Stockholm (Sweden) in 1993, he moved to the University of California San Diego (USA) to complete his postdoctoral studies. Four years later he returned to the UniversitatAutònoma de Barcelona as an associate researcher, becoming an ICREA research professor in 2001. He is since 2006 the group leader of the Magnetic Nanostructures group at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2; Barcelona, Spain). Prof. Nogués has published 253 articles (including eight reviews), with over 19000 citations and an H-index of 59. He is the author of five patents and his work has given rise to over 245 invitedtalks at international conferences and workshops.

After a PHD thesis in 1991 on magnetic metallic multilayers and cluster-based nanostructures, and early researches on Giant magnetoresistance and Tunnel magnetoresistance, she reoriented her research in 1998 and developed at UnitéMixte de Physique CNRS/Thales a new thematic of research concerning “multifunctional oxides”. This encompasses researches on tunneling in magnetic and ferroelectric tunnel junctions, high mobility two-dimensional electron gases at oxide interfaces, multiferroic materials and heterostructures. Her results have been reported in200papersamong them: 2 Science, 4 Nature, 10 Nature Materials, 4 Nature Physics, 1 Nature Nanotechnology, 8 Nature Communications, 19 Phys. Rev. Lett, 7 book chapters and 4 patents. They have been awarded by the Louis Ancel prize of the French Physical Society in 2008, the Silver medal of CNRS in 2010, the Nikola Tesla prize of the Petrović Njegoš foundation in 2015 and the Lazare Carnot prize of the French Academy of Sciences in 2017.

Michael Coey is Professor Emeritus in the School of Physics at Trinity College, Dublin where he previously held the Erasmus Smith’s Chair of Natural and Experimental Philosophy. An authority on magnetism and its applications, his contributions have included a systematic investigation of magnetism in amorphous solids, magnetic order in minerals, the discovery of interstitial hard magnets, work on the relation between magnetism and charge transport in conducting oxides and development of the field of magnetoelectrochemistry. A highly-cited physicist, Michael Coey is author of 800 scientific papers, 20 patents and several books, including Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, (Cambridge University Press, 2010). and is co-editor of the Handbook of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (Springer 2021). He founded Magnetic Solutions Ltd, the TCD Science Gallery and was a promoter of CRANN, Ireland’s Nanoscience Research Centre. Honours include fellowship of the Royal Society, Overseas membership of the National Academy of Sciences and an honorary degree from the University of Grenoble. He was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Irish Academy in 2005 and the Max Born Prize and Medal in 2019 for his contributions to magnetism. Current research is focussed on spin-dependent electron transport, magnetic nanostructures, magnetoelectrochemistry and novel magnetic materials.

Mohammad Mehdi Rashidi is born in Hamedan, Iran in 1972. He received his Ph.D degree from Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran in 2002. He is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering (from Bu-Ali University, 2014), he works at Tongji University in Shanghai. He has published two books: Advanced Engineering Mathematics with Applied Examples of MATHEMATICA Software (2007) (320 pages) (in Persian), and Mathematical Modelling of Nonlinear Flows of Micropolar Fluids (Germany, Lambert Academic Press, 2011). He has published over 300 journal articles and 45 conference papers.

Paulo C.DE Morais, PhD, was full Professor of Physics at the University of Brasilia (UnB) – Brazil up to 2013, Appointed as UnB’s Emeritus Professor (2014), Appointed as Guest Professor of theHuazhong University of Science and Technology– China (2011), Visiting Professor at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) – China (2012-2015), Appointed as Distinguished Professor at the Anhui University (AHU) – China (2016-2019), Appointed as Full Professor at the Catholic University of Brasília (UCB) – Brazil (2018), Appointed as CNPq-1A Research Fellowship since 2010, 2007 Master Research Prize from UnB, 2008-member of the European ERA NET Nanoscience Committee, Member of the IEEE-Magnetic Society Technical Committee, Senior Member of the IEEE Society, 2012 China’s 1000 Foreign Expert Recipient, and 2012 Academic Excellence Award from Brazilian Professor’s Union. He held two-years (1987-1988) post-doc position with Bell Communications Research – New Jersey, USA and received his Doctoral degree in Solid State Physics (1986) from the Federal University of Minas Gerais – Brazil. He graduated in both Chemistry (1976) and Physics (1977) at the UnB.ProfessorMorais is member of the Brazilian Physical Society, American Chemical Society, and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - IEEE. He has served as referee for over 40 technical journals, takes part of the Editorial Board of 10 technical journals and has conducted research on nanomaterials for over 35 years. He is known for his research in preparation, characterization and applications of nanoparticle-based materials (magnetic fluid, magnetoliposome, magnetic nanoemulsion, magnetic nanocapsule, magnetic nanofilm, magnetic nanocomposite, semiconductor quantum dots, polymeric dots, and carbon dots). His current (Dec2020) metrics with Web of Science (Google Scholar) is H42 (H50), 476 (610) records and 7,130 (9,840) citations.

Gang Zhang obtained B. Sciand Ph. D. in physics at Tsinghua University in 1998 and 2002, respectively. He is currently a senior scientist and capability group manager in Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), A*STAR, Singapore, which he joined in February 2013. Prior to his joining IHPC, he was a professor at Department of Electronics, Peking University. His research is focused on the energy transfer and harvesting in nanostructured materials. He has published more than 250 referred papers, with citations over 15,000 and an h-index of 66 (Google Scholar). He was awarded the Highly Impacted Paper Award by Chinese Physical Society in 2020, Excellence Award in Computational Physics by Chinese Physical Society 2012 Autumn Meeting, and Singapore Millennium Foundation Fellowship (2002-2004). He serves as advisory board member of Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances, advisory board member of ES Energy & Environment, technical committee member of IEDM, associate editor of Journal of Electronic Materials, associate editor of Frontiers in Physics, guest editor of Advanced Functional Materials, guest editor of Chinese Physics B and editorial board member of Scientific Reports.

Prof. Ron Naaman earned his BSc in 1973 from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and his PhD in 1978 from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Heworked as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University in California, and spent a year in the Department of Chemistry at Harvard University. In 1981, Prof. Naaman joined the Weizmann Institute in the Department of Isotope Research (later renamed the Department of Chemical Physics). From 1989-1995, Prof. Naaman chaired the Institute’s Chemical Services Unit and from 1995-2000, he headed the Department of Chemical Physics. From 2008-2010, Prof. Naaman was the Chair of the Scientific Council at the Institute. Ron Naaman is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He was was awarded the Kolthof Prize from the Technion, the excellent research prize from the Israel Vacuum Society and the Israel Chemical Society and he is a recipient of the Humboldt-Meitner award. He serves as an associate editor for PCCP.

Dr. Tapas Sen is an expert in nano chemistry and nano-biomaterials with more than 25 years research experience from laboratory scale development to commercial products. Currently he is working as a Reader in Nanomaterials Chemistry and leading the Nano-biomaterial Research Group in the University of Central Lancashire, UK. He is the principal inventor of PCT application of three Great Britain patents and has published more than 50 high impact peer reviewed journal articles of his original work, two high impact review articles, two book chapters and seven articles in books in the area of nano-biomaterials chemistry. He managed several international research projects as a principle investigator in the past and successfully delivered two International workshops and two international symposium “Functional Nanomaterials in Industrial Applications: Academic-Industry Meet” in March 2016 and “Functional Nanomaterials in Industrial & Clinical Applications: Academic-Industry-Clinician Meet” in July 2020 as a coordinator. He is a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry and Higher Education Academy, UK. He is the member of the Editorial board of several peer review journals including Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group, a member of the peer review panel of the research council UK and Royal Society, UK. He has also completed a foundation degree in project management (PRINCE II) endorsed by the UK government as the project management standard for public projects.

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 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 Materials Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley CA. He is Senior Scientist and Principal Investigator in the Non-Equilibrium Magnetic Materials Program and currently also 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 more than 220 peer reviewed papers and has given more than 330 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.

Joseph Poon is William Barton Rogers Professor of Physics and Professor of Materials Science by courtesy at University of Virginia. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the California Institute of Technology and performed postdoctoral work at Stanford University. He became assistant professor of physics at UVa in 1980 and professor in 1987. He chaired the physics department from 2010 to 2018. In his earlier work, he studied superconductivity and magnetism in amorphous metals and quasicrystals. His current research projects focus on experimental and computational investigation of thermoelectric materials, high-entropy alloys, and magnetic thin films. His studies aim to advance materials design and understand structural-property relationships. His publication record includes more than 260 publications and h-index of 68. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and APS Outstanding Referee and was named Scientific American 50 for the discovery of amorphous steel. In 2020, he received the Jesse Wakefield Beams Research Award of the Southeastern Section of APS.

Jingsheng Chen received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, in 1994 and 1999, respectively. From 1999 to 2001, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. From 2001 to 2007, he was a Research Scientist at the Data Storage Institute, Singapore. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore. Since 2008, he has been sponsored by Seagate Technology, Fremont, CA, USA, to develop high-anisotropy magnetic recording media for heat-assisted magnetic recording. He has authored or co-authored over 300 refereed journal articles, holds more than ten patents, and has made over 50 invited presentations at international conferences. His current research interests include magnetic materials and devices for spintronics application, high-anisotropy magnetic materials for hard disk drives, multiferroic materials, and emerging ferroelectric materials and devices. He is selected as IEEE Magnetic Society Distinguished lecturer for 2022.

Prof. Devashibhai Adroja obtained his PhD from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in Jan 1991. He is a senior scientist and STFC Fellow at ISIS facility and responsible for the MERLIN time-of-flight (TOF) spectrometer. He also holds a visiting professor ofPhysics position at Johannesburg University, South Africa.He is an acknowledged expert in the magnetism of d- and f-electron systems and has more than 30 years of experience in inelastic neutron scattering (excitations) and muon spin rotation techniques. His research programme focuses on strongly correlated electron systems, with special emphasis on quantum criticality and non-Fermi-liquid behaviour, heavy fermions, transition-metal and rare earth oxides and thermoelectric materials. He works on the frontiers of condensed matter physics and has recently made significant contributions on the newly discovered Fe-superconductors, quasi-one-dimensional spin-chain systems, double perovskites, Honeycomb ruthenates and heavy fermion materials. He has published over 350 papers in peer-reviewed international journals ([19, 21, 41], also please see selected publications in the publication section below) and given 90 invited talks/seminar internationally.

Agustina Asenjo received her PhD degree in Physics in 1997 from the University Autónoma de Madrid. She moved to the Institute of Applied Magnetism (UCM-RENFE) in 1998 as a postdoc and in 2000 she worked as an assistant professor in the Faculty of Physics of the University Complutense of Madrid. In 2003 she joints the Institute of Materials Science of Madrid (CSIC) as a Tenured Track and in 2007 she obtains a permanent position as Tenured Scientist. From February 2016 she is Senior Researcher of the ICMM-CSIC. Her current research interests are the development of Magnetic Force Microscopy (MFM) techniques and the study of Magnetization Reversal Processes in magnetic nanostructures. She leads a number of national projects and she has published 105 papers in international journals (80% of them in Q1).

Eugene O Kamenetskii received diploma of Engineer in Electrical Engineering and the PhD degree in Physics and Mathematics from the Electrical Engineering Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1969 and 1986, respectively. He is presently with Ben Gurion University of Negev, Israel as a Head of Microwave Magnetic Laboratory. He is an author (co-author) of 180 refereed journal and conference papers. He is an editor of 3 books: "Electromagnetic, magnetostatic, and exchange-interaction vortices in confined magnetic structures", Research Signpost Publisher (2008), “Fano Resonances in Optics and Microwaves”, Springer (2018), and ”Chirality, magnetism, and magnetoelectricity: Separate phenomena and joint effects in metamaterial structures”, Springer (2021). He is a Fellow of the Electromagnetics Academy (USA) since 2007. Research interests: Magnetic waves and oscillations, spectral theory of artificial atomic structures, metamaterials for microwave and optics applications, microwave microscopy, and microwave biosensing. Recent scientific results: During last several years, in our Microwave Magnetic Lab we study effects of interaction of EM fields with magnetostatic oscillations – magnetostatic magnon polaritons – observed in small ferrite particles. We have obtained very interesting and promising results on microwave chiral magnon polaritons. Our results concern both fundamental studies and unique applications, such as chiral-field microwave microscopy, microwave biosensing of enantiomeric liquids.

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Saül Vélez pursed his master’s (2008) and PhD studies (2012) at the University of Barcelona under the supervision of Prof. Tejada, receiving in both the Extraordinary award for his results on quantum magnetism. In April 2013, Saül joined the nanodevices group at CIC nanoGUNE to work with Prof. Hueso with the purpose to transition towards spintronics and nanodevices, areas in which he is now a reference. From September 2017 to May 2021, Saül also hold a senior postdoctoral position in the groups of Prof. Gambardella and Prof. Fiebig at ETH Zürich. With interest in spintronics, magnetotransport, and optoelectronics phenomena, his recent research focused on exploring magnetoresistive effects and magnetic dynamic phenomena in metal/oxide heterostructure devices. Among his discoveries, he has demonstrated that interfacial interactions and spin currents can be used for probing and manipulating the magnetic moments of electrically insulating materials, opening a new research field with profound fundamental and technological impacts. His contributions to polaritonics and optoelectronics in low dimensional materials and heterostructures are also multiple. Saül joined IFIMAC in June 2021 as Junior Group Leader and found the Spintronics and Nanodevices group. In his lab, he aims at exploring non-conventional materials and new device concepts for spintronic applications.

Franca Albertini is the leader of the Magnetic and MultiferroicMaterials Group at the Institute of Materials for Electronics and Magnetism (IMEM) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). Her research interests are focused on multifunctional magnetic materials for energy applications and bio-medicine. In particular, her activity has been mainly devoted to bulk and nanostructured ferromagnetic shape memory materials, focusing on theinterplay between structural/microstructural, magnetic, and multifunctional (e.g. magnetocaloric, magnetoelastic) properties.She is author of 150 publications, >200 contributions at scientific conferences, >35 invited talks. She hasserved many scientific societies(e.g. AIMagn, EMA, IEEE Mag. Soc.), has chaired scientific conferences (e.g. JEMS2012, IEEE-AIM2020-2021) and symposia on magnetism and magnetic materials, and has participated to committees and advisory boards of conferences and scientific institutions.

Dr. Vavassori received his M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering in 1990 at the Politecnico of Milan (Italy) and his PhD in physics studying electronic correlation in condensed matter. - In 1995, he became a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Ferrara and later, in 1997, he joined the magnetism group of the Materials Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory (Chicago), where he led a project on nanostructured magnetic arrays as candidates for a new generation of high-density magnetic memory media. - Back to Italy in 1999, at Ferrara University, he established an independent program on magnetic nanostructures, pioneering research in this field in Italy. - In 2008 he joined the Nanomagnetism group at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian) with EU-FP7-IEF Marie-Curie Senior Research Mobility Fellowship and in 2010 he became an Ikerbasque research Professor and co-leader of the Nanomagnetism group. The focus of his research encompasses the study of novel magnetoplasmonic nanostructured metamaterials, geometrically frustrated nanostructured metamaterials, and unconventional applications of magnetic nanostructures to biology and medicine. Dr. Vavassori has co-authored 210 peer-reviewed international publications that generated more than 4500 citations and delivered 95 invited oral presentations at international conferences and institutions. He is co-inventor of 3 issued patents (one on optomagnetic detection received the 2020 Venture Award from the “European Institute of Innovation&Technology” and is currently exploited in portable diagnostic devices commercialized by the Danish company Blusense Diagnostics). He was a senior member of IEEE Magnetic Society Technical Committee and currently is Associated Editor in the Journal of Applied Physics.

Xiangrong Wang is a professor in the Physics Department of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Prof. Wang received his PhD degree from the University of Rochester in 1990. He works in the field of theoretical condensed matter physics and statistical physics. His current research interests include static and dynamical properties of topological objects and topological states, magnetization dynamics and spintronics, quantum phase transitions of two-dimensional systems.

r. Shoji Yamamoto is a theoretical physicist and received his doctoral degree from Kyoto University (Japan) for a group-theoretical analysis on broken-symmetry solutions of a two-dimensional extended Hubbard model in 1993. He was employed as a research associate to Osaka University (Japan) and Universität Hannover (Germany). During this phase he shifted his main interest into quantum magnetism and carried out extensive quantum Monte Carlo calculation of various Haldane-gap antiferromagnets. In 1996 he became an associate professor of Okayama University (Japan) and started out on his life career of a modified spin-wave theory, about which he is now writing a heavy monograph in Springer-Verlag. In 2002 he was promoted to full professor of Hokkaido University (Japan) to lead Mathematical Physics Group. His research is getting richer and richer in variety, such as photochromism in polycyclic aromatic compounds, photoswitchable itinerant electron magnetism in square-antiprismatic octacyano-molybdenum complexes, nuclear magnetic relaxation theory of molecular nanomagnets, and inelastic neutron and light scattering theories of quantum magnets on various lattices. In recent years, he takes a brand-new interest in quantum spin liquids and employs projective symmetry groups to reveal their fractional excitations.

Professor Yossi Paltiel, born in 1968, is now in the Applied Physics Department in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel. Prof. Paltiel has worked for both leading high-tech industry groups and in the academic world. Since July 2009, He is the leading the Quantum Nano Engineering group at the Hebrew University, Israel. He was the head of the Applied Physics Department 2013-2016. Paltiel's group’s goal is to establish a way to incorporate quantum mechanics into room temperature "classical" computation and devices reading scheme mimicking Biology and Chemistry processes. In this sense the group also works on spin interfaces using chiral molecules and materials. Professor Paltiel has published more than 170 papers in leading journals as well as issued 15 patents. Paltiel has two startup companies. The first named Valentis Nanotech founded in 2013. The company utilizes nanocellulose unique properties to produce a biodegradable transparent sheet with additional controlled optical and gas/water barrier properties. The 2nd company named Kiralis is funded in 2018 and separate enantiomers using magnetic interface interactions.

Dr. Sumit Kumar Gupta Dean, Faculty of Science Parishkar College of Global Excellence Jaipur, India, in the Department of Physics, With over 16 years of teaching, research, and administrative experience, he has held various administrative positions as the Head of Department in various degree colleges and engineering colleges and has a vast experience of teaching in IIT-JEE Classes. He has been appointed International Editorial Board Members in 50 UGC Approved, Thomson Reuter Indexed, Referred‎ International Journal & Invited International Advisory Committee Member& Keynote Speaker from over 70countries. He has been Evaluated Ph.D. thesis from various abroad university as Cairo University, Egypt.

Xiaoshan Xu is an associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a faculty associate of Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience. Prof. Xu’s research interests are in oxide and organic thin films and nanostructures focusing on their ferroic properties, such as ferroelectricity, magnetism, and multiferroicity. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Georgia Institute of Technology. Before joining University of Nebraska-Lincoln, he worked as a postdoctoral research associate in the University of Tennessee and a staff member in the Oak Ridge National Lab. He is a recipient of the Eugene Wigner Fellowship in the Oak Ridge National Lab, Faculty Early Career Development Award from the U.S National Science Foundation, and the Early Career Award from the U.S Department of Energy.

Dustin Gilbert is an Assistant Professor in the Materials Science Department and Adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of Tennessee. He was a Physicist and NRC Fellow at the National Institute for Standards and Technology Center for Neutron Research for four years after earning his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, Davis in 2014. His research has included a range of nanoscale technologies including quantum materials, data storage and processing, and biomedical devices. Currently, Gilbert’s lab focuses on the novel use of neutrons to investigate chiral spin textures, including magnetic skyrmions, under a DOE Career award, functional high-entropy materials and nano-composite textiles in response to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

Dr. Jun Yanis an Associate Professor at the Physics Department of University of Massachusetts Amherst. He was a postdoc fellow at the University of Maryland College Parkbetween 2009 and 2012 before joining UMass Amherstand after earning his PhD at Columbia University.His research interests are mainlyintwo-dimensional quantum materials. The Yan lab use a variety of optical and optoelectronic techniques to investigate the fundamental optical, thermal and electronic properties of these materials, as well as potential applications such as highly sensitive TeraHertz detectors, spintronicand valleytronic devices.

Michelle E. Jamer, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at the United States Naval Academy and the head of the Heusler Alloy and Magnetic Materials (HAMM) Lab. Previously, she was a NRC Postdoctoral Researcher at the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR). She received her Ph.D. from Northeastern University working on the unique relationship between structural and magnetic disorder in Heusler compounds. Her research interests include Heusler alloys, artificial multiferroics, and X-ray magnetic scattering techniques.

Sahar Jafari, Ph.D., is a senior scientist at Weinberg Medical Physics, MD, USA. Her research is focused on the design of novel methods to deliver drugs, cells, genes, and antibodies to the hard to access tissues to treat cancer. She received her Ph.D. from Iran University of Science and Technology,Tehran working on a joint project with National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)/Japan and TOYOTA on optimizing soft magnetic materials for hybrid cars.

Rubi Km is a postdoctoral research associate at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory(NHMFL) in Los Alamos National Laboratory in the USA. She completed a Ph.D. degree in Physics at the National University of Singapore. Before starting working at the NHMFL, she worked as a postdoc in two world-leading high magnetic field laboratories in Europe (i) Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses (LNCMI) in Toulouse, France, and (ii) High Field Magnet Laboratory (HFML) in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Her research interests range from fundamental physical phenomena associated with magnetism and electronic correlation to the device physics of complex oxides heterointerfaces, semiconductor heterostructures, and two dimensional materials. Her current research involves the investigation of quantum phenomena in two-dimensional electron systems in high magnetic fields and at low temperatures.

Benedetta Flebus have a BS from the University of Trieste and two masters, one from UPMC (Paris) in applied physics and one from EPFL (Lausanne) in theoretical physics. Benedetta Flebus did her PhD at Utrecht University with Rembert Duine; worked as a postdoc for a year at UCLA in the group of Yaroslav Tserkovnyak and two years at UT Austin with Allan MacDonald. Benedetta Flebus currently an assistant professor at Boston College.

Dr. Sion F. Olive-Méndez, received his Master and Ph.D. degrees from the Universitée de la Méditerranée Aix-Marseille II, Marseille, France in 2007 and 2008. He later worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Centre Interdisciplinaire de Marseille for one year. Since 2009, He has been working at the Research Center of Advanced Materials (Centro de Investigación en Materiales Avanzados, CIMAV) in Chihuahua, Mexico as a Tenured Professor. He is the Head of the Materials Physics department from 2017 to date. His interest is focused on the enhancement of magnetization and anisotropy of ultrathin films of Mn-Ga and Mn-Ge alloys. Recently He start working on the study of topological Hall effect on non collinear antiferromagnets.

Hrishit Banerjee a Post doctoral Research Associate at the University of Cambridge (April 2021- ), with particular interest in the field of first principles calculations of correlated materials. I am funded by the Battery Degradation project of The Faraday Institution. I finished my PhD in June 2018, working on first principles electronic structure study of novel phenomena in complex materials. I then worked as a Research Fellow for the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) till March 2019. During my time at ICTP I was the PI of a CINECA Class C project I-2DFM, and worked on the emerging field of 2D ferromagnets. Thereafter I worked as a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Graz University of Technology (TU Graz, April 2019- March 2021), where I had experience of working on strongly correlated physics from the perspectives of Dynamical Mean Field Theory. My current research interests involve understanding from the perspectives of strong correlations, the physics involved in degradation of Li ion batteries, however I have worked on various material systems including oxides, oxide heterostructures, metal organic complxes, hybrid perovskites, topological weyl semi-metals, 2D magnets and so on.

Dr Lixia Ren is an associate professor at School of Materials Science and Engineering Tianjin University, China. She received her BS from Hebei University in 2004 and PhD from Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Science in 2009. Then She worked as a postdoctoral scholar at University of South Carolina with Prof. Chuanbing Tang from 2099 to 2011. Her research interests focus on design and synthesis of magnetic polymers, and the structure and property relationship of the magnetic polymers, self-assembly of block copolymers.

Haipeng Lu is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).His group works on developing inorganic chemistry approaches to address challenges related to renewable energy and sustainability.He received his B.Sc. in chemistry from Nanjing University in 2012, and completed his Ph.D. in 2017 in chemistry at the University of Southern California. He then moved tothe National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) as a postdoctoral fellow. He is the recipient of 2019 ACS Division of Physical Chemistry Young Investigator Award. His current research is focused on the molecular design of quantum-confined semiconductors for optoelectronic and spintronic applications.

Hongbin Zhang obtained his PhD degree in theoretical physics at Technical University of Dresden. Afterwards, he continued with two postdoctoral research positions, one at Research Center Jülich on topological transport properties, and the other at Rutgers University on strongly correlated materials. Starting 2015, he joined Technical University of Darmstadt as a junior professor on the theory of magnetic materials. He is now a tenured W2 professor, leading a group working on in-silico design of functional materials. His expertise lies in high-throughput density functional theory calculation, machine learning including deep learning and Bayesian optimization, and CALPHAD modelling of phase diagrams.

Jian-Ping Lv is a professor of physics in the Center for Theoretical Physics of Anhui Normal University. He received B.S. and Ph.D. from Anhui Normal Universality and Zhejiang University, respectively. He has published 30+ papers in peer-reviewed international journals such as Physical Review Letters and National Science Review. His research interests include (1) theory of phase transitions from the perspective of statistical mechanics and (2) Monte Carlo methods. He was selected as 2021 Top Young Science and Technology Figures in China and awarded the Young teacher prize by Fok Ying Tong Education Foundation in 2020.

Andrey Leonov is an associate professor at the Department of Chemistry, Fa-culty of Science, Hiroshima University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Condensed-Matter Physics at the Institute for Theoretical Solid-State Physics (IFW, Dresden, Germany) in 2012 and was subsequently a post-doctoral researcher at Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen (the Netherlands). His primary research interest focuses on skyrmionics. By experimental and theoretical means, he investigates different classes of particle-like topological states (torons, skyrmions, hopfions, fingers, targets, bimerons, bobbers etc.) in chiral magnets and liquid crystals as well as in frustrated magnets.

Wei Jiang is a material physics scientist, with interests on new materials, novel condensed matter physics, and their potential applications in electronic and spintronic devices based on theoretical modeling. Jiang is currently an associate Professor at the physics department at Beijing Institute of Technology. Jiang obtained his bachelor degree from Tongji University in 2013and doctoral degree from Prof. Feng Liu’s group atthe University of Utah in fall 2018. After that, Jiang joined Prof. Tony Low’s group as a Post-doc at the University of Minnesota.

Desheng Xue received the B.S., S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Department of Physics, Institute of Magnetic Materials and Department of Modern Physics at Lanzhou University (LZU), respectively. In 1986, he joined the Department of Physics, LZU, where he is currently a Professor of Condensed Matter Physics. His research interests include origin of magnetism, dynamics of magnetization and spin current, and characterization of magnetism with transport technology.

Dr. Hanjie Guo is currently a scientist in Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, China. He received his PhD from Zhejiang University in 2014, and continued his Postdoc research in Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solid, Germany. His research interest is focused on the exotic magnetism in strongly correlated systems using neutron and muon as special probes.

Tao Yu works in the School of Physics at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Wuhan, China) as a Professor of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics and Doctoral Supervisor. He is also the guest researcher of Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, and guest editor of Frontiers in Physics. He leads the group for the dynamics of quantum materials, focusing on interesting theoretical problems among magnetism, spintronics, unconventional superconductivity, correlated spin system, and many-body states in two-dimensional van der Waals materials. He has a wide interest in condensed matter theory and has a particular hobby in developing theory for amazing phenomena with the solid experimental ground, which should be full of prediction and explanation powers that have been reflected in almost all his publications.

Bernd Beschoten got his Ph.D. in physics in 1997 on the physics of high temperature superconductors under the supervision of Prof. Gernot Güntherodt from RWTH Aachen University. The same year he started a 2 years postdoc on semiconductor spintronics at the University of California at Santa Barbara in Prof. David Awschalom’s group. From 1999 he was studying exchange bias systems and spin dynamics in semiconductors and became a senior staff scientist at the Physics Department at RWTH Aachen, where he is currently leading the research activity on spin transport and optical pump-probe experiments on 2D materials.

Oleksandr Dobrovolskiy received his Ph.D. degree from the B. Verkin ILTPE (Kharkiv, Ukraine) in 2009, studying vortices in superconductors. Afterward, he moved to the Physics Institute, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, investigating magneto-transport phenomena in nanoscale hybrid systems and leading the Nano-Fluxonics laboratory after habilitation in 2016. He received a D.Sci. degree in superconductivity (ILTPE, 2016) and was promoted to Professor of Low Temperature Physics. Since 2019 he is with the Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, leading the Superconductivity and Spintronics Laboratory at Nanomagnetism and Magnonics. He is known in the community for his decisive contributions to the research areas of cryogenic magnonics, spin and flux transport in ferromagnet/superconductor hybrid systems, and 3D nanofabrication.

Dr. Zhou Yan obtained his bachelor degree in University of Science and Technology of China in 2003 and MPhil degree in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2005. He got his PhD degree from Royal Institute of Technology (KTH, Sweden) in 2009. Dr. Zhou Yan works on next-generation spintronics devices including spintronic oscillator, Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory, and magnetic skyrmions for information processing and storage application. Dr. Zhou has published more than 200 papers including 1 Proceedings of the IEEE, 1 Nature Physics, 2 Nature Electronics, 6 Nature Communications, 1 NPG Asia Materials, and 4 Nano Letters. His GoogleScholar citation is ~7800. Dr. Zhou received the awards of “China outstanding PhD student abroad”, “Thousand Talents award (Youth)” and “Top 100 citation Badge by Scientific Reports”. His work has been reported by Phys.org, Science daily, IEEE Spectrum, Storage Newsletter etc. Prof. Zhou is a senior member of IEEE and editorial board member of Scientific Reports, Editorial review board member of IEEE Magnetics Letters. He is reviewer of Review of Modern Physics, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Materials, Nature Physics, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Nano Letters, Physical Review X, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Applied Physics Letters and IEEE Transactions on Electronic Devices etc.

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Dr. Shen Lei is a Senior Lecturer in Department Mechanical Engineering, and Engineering Science Programme at National University of Singapore (NUS). He got his PhD degree from the NUS in 2011. Before joining NUS in 2014, he was a Scientist in Data Storage Institute Singapore.His interest lies in computational materials and physics, focusing mainly on the understanding of fundamental properties of materials for advanced technologies, such as SOC-based materials, and prediction of advanced materials based on materials genome, high-throughput calculations, and machine learning. He has published 100+ papers in international peer-reviewed journals with 5000+ citations and h-index of40.

Andrii Chumak studied physics at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and received his PhD in 2009 in the group of Gennadii Melkov. After the PostDoc at the group of Burkard Hillebrands at the University of Kaiserslautern, he continued as a Principal Investigator and the Head of ERC Junior Research Group. Andrii Chumak became a Full Professor and the Head of Nanomagnetism and Magnonics Group at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Vienna in 2019. His scientific interests include magnetization dynamics and magnonics, nonlinear wave physics, spin-orbit spintronics, unconventional computing, and quantum magnonics.

Prof. Pietro tierno graduated in Physics at University “Federico II” of Naples (Italy) and received a PhD in Natural Sciences at University of Ulm (Germany). In 2004 he was the Winner of the ‘Estapor: recognition program for young scientists’ from the MERK Chimie (Fr). Later, he spent 2 Post Doctoral years at Florida State University (USA) and 4 more years at University of Barcelona (Spain). In 2017 he became permanent and full professor in 2021 at UB. His research experience involves experimental and theoretical approaches to scientific inquiry fundamental processes occurring in Soft Matter systems, including colloids, monolayers, polymers and liquid crystals. He has a total of 101 publications in high impact factor journals. He also holds two patents in different countries (USA and Spain). At University of Barcelona, he equipped three interdisciplinary laboratories and led a group of 5 postdocs, and 3 PhDs.

Jean-Philippe Ansermet was born March 1, 1957 in Lausanne (legal origin Vaumarcus, NE). He obtained a diploma as physics engineer of EPFL in 1980. He went on to get a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where, from 1985 to 1987, he persued as post-doc with Prof. Slichter his research on catalysis by solid state NMR studies of molecules bound to the surface of catalysts. From 1987 to 1992 he worked at the materials research center of Ciba-Geigy, on polymers for microelectronics, composites, dielectrics and organic charge transfer complexes. In March 1992, as professor of experimental physics, he developed a laboratory on the theme of nanostructured materials and turned full professor in 1995. Since 1992, he teaches classical mechanics, first to future engineering students, since 2004 to physics majors. Since 2000, he teaches thermodynamics also, to the same group of students. He offers a graduate course in spintronics, and another on spin dynamics. His research activities concern the fabrication and properties of magnetic nanostructures produced by electrodeposition. His involvement since the early days of spintronics have allowed him to gain recognition for his work on giant magnetoresistance (CPP-GMR), magnetic relaxation of single nanostructures, and was among the leading groups demonstrating magnetization reversal by spin-polarized currents. Furthermore, his group uses nuclear magnetic resonance , on the one hand as means of investigation of surfaces and electrodes, on the other hand, as a local probe of the electronic properties of complex ferromagnetic oxides.

Dr. Er-Jia Guo is an experimental condensed matter physicist and materials scientist in the Institute of Physics (IOP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Dr. Guo also holds an Adjunct Professor position at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS). Dr. Guo is specialized on the quantum heterostructure synthesis and characterizations, especially the application of polarized neutron reflectometry in materials sciences and condensed matter physics. His current interest combined thin-film and heterostructure synthesis with advanced characterization techniques, such as synchrotron and neutron facilities, to design, and probe novel quantum materials at the nanoscale. Dr. Guo worked as Postdoc. at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Mainz University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory after he earned Ph.D from IOP-CAS. In 2018, he joined IOP-CAS as a permeant staff faculty.

Dr. J.J. Suñol Martínez is Professor of Applied Physics, Department of Physics of the University of Girona (Catalonia, Spain). Coordinator of the Materials and Thermodynamics Research group of the University of Girona and from 2015 president of the Spanish group on Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (GECAT). Author of 200+ indexed publications (web of science), and 300+ works presented at scientific conferences. Associated editor of indexed journals as: Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, Materials or Metals. Board member of: Spanish Physics Society, Catalan Physics Society, Spanish powder-metallurgy association. The research is linked to new materials, including Fe based nanocrystalline and amorphous alloys for soft magnetic applications, alloys with magnetic shape memory for magnetic refrigeration and soft-hard magnet composites.

Dr. Bingjin Chen is a scientist at Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), A*STAR, Singapore. He obtained his Ph.D from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2002, M. Eng and B. Eng from Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China in 1995 and 1992, respectively. He has been an author of 60 more papers being published in the peer-reviewed international journals. His research interests include micromechanics of composite materials, computational solid mechanics, as well as spintronic materials and devices.

Dr Lei (Frank) Zhou received his PhD in Metallurgy and materials science from University of Birmingham, UK in 2014. Since then, Frank work as a Senior Research Fellow at WMG, University of Warwick, UK. He has been working in the research area of steel metallurgy and electromagnetic non-destructive testing for over ten years. Frank combines fundamental understanding of microstructure-magnetic property relationships with an appreciation of industrial processing problems. Currently, Frank and his team explores novel EM sensor applications for microstructure engineering in steels.

Prof. Dr. Christoph Alexiou, received his Ph.D. in 1995 from the Technical University of Munich, Medical school. After finishing his internship in the Gastroenterology Department at the Universityhospital of the Technical University he started as a physician and researcher at the Department of oto-rhino-laryngology, head and neck surgery and founded a research group working on the field of local chemotherapy with magnetic nanoparticles (Magnetic Drug Targeting). In the year 2000 he received his degree as an ENT-Physician and 2002 he changed to the ENT-Department in Erlangen, Germany, where he performed his postdoctoral lecture qualification (Habilitation). He is working there as an assistant medical director in the clinic and leads the Section for Experimental Oncology and Nanomedicine (SEON). Since 2009 he owns the Else Kröner-Fresenius-Foundation-(W3-) Professorship for Nanomedicine at the Universityhospital Erlangen. He receives grants from the European Union, German Research Community (DFG), Ministry of Education and Science (BMBF) and Bavarian State Ministry of the Enviroment and Consumer Protection. His research is addressing the emerging fields of Diagnosis, Treatment and Regenerative Medicine using magnetic nanoparticles and the translation from basic research into clinical trials. He received for his research several national and international renowned awards.

Apala Majumdar is a Full Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom. Prior to her appointment at the University of Strathclyde in 2019, Apala has worked at the University of Bristol, University of Oxford and University of Bath, where she was Director of the Centre for Nonlinear Mechanics in the 2018-2019 academic year, followed by a Visiting Professorship at IIT Bombay in India. Apala is an internationally acclaimed leader in the mathematics and applications of liquid crystals, and allied materials. She has made notable contributions to the analysis of the Landau-de Gennes theory for nematic liquid crystals, theory of multistable liquid crystalline systems, theory of defects and interdisciplinary research in liquid crystals. Her work has been recognised by two prizes from the British Liquid Crystal Society and she was the inaugural recipient of the London Mathematical Society Anne Bennett Prize in 2015.

José Holanda is currently professor of physics at the Physics Department of the Federal University of Espírito Santo. He was awarded with several distinctions and awards. His academic background was all in the field of physics. He develops theoretical and experimental work in different fields, in particular in fields of spintronics, magnonics, spin caloritronics and spin phononics.

Dr. Subhankar Bedanta is an Associate Professor at the School of Physics at NISER-Bhubaneswar, India. He has obtained his PhD from University Duisburg-Essen, Germany. He has worked as a postdoctoral associate at (i) University Duisburg-Essen, Germany and (ii) Princeton University, USA. He was a guest scientist at ForschungszentrumJuelich, Germany and also worked as a visiting associate professor at Tohoku University, Japan. His research interests are nanomagnetism and spintronics. He focuses on domain imaging, domain wall dynamics in magnetic multilayers, magnetic antidot lattices. His recent work focuses on organic spintronics, antiferromagnetic spintronics, topological insulators, flexible spintronics etc. He has been awarded the “Young Achiever Award 2019” by department of atomic energy, India. He has published about 75 papers and has got about 2500 citations. He is a member of the advisory editorial board of the Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (JMMM).

Dr. Carmen Munuera is a Tenured Scientist at the Materials Science Institute of Madrid (ICMM), a research center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). She received her PhD in Physics by the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM, 2007) working on the relationship between functional and structural properties in self-assembled monolayers with the Scanning Probe Microscopy technique. During her postdoctoral stage she worked first at the Material Science Institute of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) and in 2008 she became a postdoctoral fellow at Max-Planck Institute for Metal Research, in Stuttgart. Her research interests reoriented after this postdoctoral stage, focusing on the nanoscale study of complex oxides heterostructures and the novel properties arising at the interfaces in these systems. In 2010 she joined her actual group at ICMM and set up a low temperature MFM system, which was crucial to her investigation and motivated her interest in one of her actual research lines: the characterization and manipulation by MFM of the vortex lattice in layered superconductors. In addition, her research encompasses van der Waals materials (dichalcogenides and layered metal oxides), with particular interest in the correlation between structural and optical properties.

Dr. Huaiyang Yuan is currently a Marie-Curie Fellow in the Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University, He obtained his PhD in physics from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is mainly working on the theoretical aspects of spintronics which includes the dynamics of magnetic nanostructures such as domain walls, vortices and skyrmions, antiferromagnetic spintronics and cavity magnonics. He is also interested in the emerging field of quantum magnonics, which aims to use quantum properties of magnons for information processing.

"Dr. Delin Zhang is a research scientist at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Zhang received his Ph D. degree from the University of Science & Technology Beijing, Beijing, China, in 2012. Then he joined the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany as a postdoctoral scientist. In 2014, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, as a postdoctoral Associate. His research interests mainly focus on the spintronic memory devices, including magnetic tunnel junctions, spin-orbit torque devices, and strain/voltage-controlled spintronic devices, as well as novel spintronic devices with quantum materials."

Professor Des Mapps is an Emeritus Professor in the University of Plymouth, UK with extensive experience in nano-magnetism in magnetic thin films and devices. He has published 163 papers in International Research Journals, 13 Patents and 77 major reports for industry. He is a former Chairman of the UK EPSRC Engineering Panel. He has supervised 27 PhD students and numerous MSc’s. Most of his research has been in the field of magnetic computer memories but more recently he is exploring materials and devices related to bio-magnetism and the diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions (see DOI 10.3390/s.20061569, March 2020). In Japan he was invited SONY Sabbatical Professor and spent a total of 2 years research in various companies and universities in Japan. He is a nominator for the Japan Prize.

Dr. Dongfeng He is a principal researcher of National Institute for Materials Science, Japan, also guest Professor in several universities. He graduated and got his Ph.D. degree in Physics from Peking University; once did researches in Germany and USA as visiting researcher. His research interests are focused on superconducting electronics, high-sensitivity magnetic sensors and their applications, electromagnetic nondestructive evaluation.

Elin L. Winkler is Researcher of National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), Researcher of National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA) and Professor at the Balseiro Institute, Cuyo National University (IB-UNCuyo) at Argentina. She is currently the head of the Magnetic Resonance Division at the Bariloche Atomic Center (CAB-CNEA). She received her Ph.D. in Physics in 2000 from the IB-UNCuyo Argentina and performed Postdoctoral works at the Texas Material Institute, University of Texas at Austin in 2001-2002 and in Magnetic Resonance Laboratory at CAB-CNEA in 2003-2004. She is co-author of more than 80 papers in peer-review journals, two book chapters and more than 100 contributions to local and international conferences. Her research area focus on the development of new nanostructured materials based on magnetic nanoparticles and the study of its physic-chemical properties in order to tune the response for different electronic and biomedical applications.

Epiphania Mtabazi, a PhD candidate at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Epiphania Mtabazi received her B.Sc. Degree with Geology in 2013, from the University of Dar es Salaam. She then joined M.Sc. degree in Geology (by research), at the University of Dar Es Salaam. Her Master degree research was based on the deformation History of Mandawa basin and basement rocks in Lindi-Tanzania (E. Mtabazi et al., 2015; Mtabazi et al., 2018). In 2013, she was then employed by the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania as a teaching Assistant, where she teaches geology courses. Epiphania is currently perusing PhD (Tectonics and Geothermal) at Utrecht University (Netherlands) since 2018. Her main goal is to quantitatively assess the thermo-mechanical and structural framework of the top 10 km in the EAR branches in Tanzania (Rungwe area) and to use the framework to assess the temperature distribution, and to identify geothermal resource potential in sedimentary basins and the underlying basement. He research interests include tectonics, geophysics and Geothermal.

Prof. Gilad Marcus received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, in 1995 and 1997, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, in 2006, all in physics. From 2007 to 2012, he was a Humboldt research fellow with the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics inGarching, Germany, where he developed various few cycle OPCPA and studied strong field phenomena. In 2012, he joined the Department of Applied Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. His current research spans over few topics including resonance and intense HHG, Pushing high field physics towards keV energies, infrared laser development and nonlinear laser plasmas interactions.His current research deals also with the interaction of strong fields with chiral engineered structures and non-reciprocal effects.

Goshtasp Cheraghian is a research associate at Braunschweig Pavement Engineering Centre (ISBS) at the Technische Universität Braunschweig since May 2018. As a young multidisciplinary scholar, he received numerous honors and awards. He has published over 40 papers in the leading worldwide journals, has presented over 30 articles at scientific and technical conferences, and holds seven patents. He serves as the editor/guest editor and reviewer of 48 scientific journals from Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley, MDPI, ACS, ASME, and Taylor & Francis publications. His interest research subjects include polymer nanocomposites, characterization of bitumen, nanofluids, asphalt materials, enhanced oil recovery (EOR), asphaltene, and wax studies. His research focuses on polymer/nanocomposites in order to understand nanoparticles interactions at the nanoscale and rheological properties of them in complex fluids.

Mr. Hamed Radpourreceived the B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran. He is currently a research assistant at Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) where he is pursuing the M.Sc in Electrical Engineering. He was awardedKAIST scholarship and joined the Microwave and Antenna Laboratory (MALAB) in 2020. He published several papers in relativistic scattering and Inter-Satellite link(ISL) communications in various journals. His current research interests are MIMO systems, 5G millimeter wave technology, channel modeling, vehicular communications and new microwave magnetic materials.

Hannes Jónsson is a professor in the Faculty of Physical Sciences at the University of Iceland. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry at the University of California San Diego in 1985 and was subsequently a post-doctoral researcher at Stanford University for two years. For 15 years he was on the faculty of the University of Washington in Seattle, advancing to full professor, but moved back to Iceland in 2005. His research has focused in particular on the development of methodology for identifying transition mechanisms and estimating rates of thermally induced transitions in atomic scale systems. While the focus has mainly been on atomic rearrangements such as chemical reactions and diffusion events, the methodology has more recently been adapted to magnetic transitions. Example applications are temperature dependence of hysteresis loops, lifetime of magnetic states such as skyrmions and mechanism of magnetization reversal in complex systems such as spin ice. Other research areas of the Jónsson research group are density functional calculations of electronic structure beyond Kohn-Sham density functional theory and calculations of excited electronic states.

Dr. Haosu Luo professor and the group leader of ferroelectric single crystals and devices at Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has significantly contributed to the growth and development of piezoelectric single crystals, especial for the growth and practical application of PMN-PT single crystalsin the world. Current researches involve the growth of high-Tc relaxor-based single crystals, lead free piezoelectric single crystals, and their device applications on ultrasonic transducers, infrared detectors, ME magnetic sensors, and various device applications. He is a pioneer in the world for the single crystal growth of piezoelectric materials and devices fabrication. He has developed many innovative technologies for the growth and application of PMN-PT single crystals. He has involved more than 500 publications, and the H-impact index is 42 for his publications. He was nominee of EEE-UFFC Ferroelectrics Recognition Award in 2014 and 2015. He acquired the National Award for Technological Invention 2nd Prize in 2005, and the first prize of natural science of Shanghai municipal government in 2013.

Dr. Harold S. Ruiz is the Director of the Electrical, Software and Communications Engineering programmes at the University of Leicester (UK), and Head of the Energy Systems and Superconducting Materials Technology Research group at the same institution. He received his PhD in condensed Mater Physics from the University of Zaragoza and the Materials Science Institute of Aragón in 2012, working later as a senior lecturer and associate professor in some of the top universities at his birth country (Colombia), before moving to the UK as senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge during 2014 and 2015. His research interests mainly focus on the understanding and application of the macroscopic magnetic properties of superconducting materials and related metastructures for the advancement of power systems.

Dr. Makhsudsho Nematov received Ph.D. degreein Materials Science and Engineering from the National University of Science and Technology MISIS (NUST MISIS, Moscow, Russia), in 2020. His thesis were devoted to the investigation of magnetic properties of ferromagnetic microwires with amorphous and nanocrystalline structure for sensory applications. After receiving Ph.D he went to the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia) where currently he is scientific researcher at Laboratory of Novel Magnetic Materials. He has published more than 25peer-reviewed articles in the international journals and has an h-index of 7 (Google scholar). He is an international editorial board member of the International Research Journal of Science, Technology, Education, and Management (IRJSTEM)and certified reviewer of several journals (J. of Materials Science & Technology, Sensors, J. of Micromachines ..). Recent activity is devoted to the development of magnetic sensors based on thin magnetic micro- and nano- wires.

Dr. Zhen Huang is a professor at Institutes of Physical Science and Information Technology, Anhui University, China. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. from University of Science and Technology of China in 2005 and 2011, respectively. Then he worked as a postdoc researcher with Prof. Ariando and Prof. T. Venkatesan at National University of Singapore from 2011 to 2020. His main research interests focus on correlated oxide heterostructures with low-dimensional high-mobility electronic systems, magnetoelectric couplings, and/or unconventional magnetic or ferroelectric interactions.

Prof. Hui YANG received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering (OECE) from University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (USST) in 2003, 2006 and 2009, respectively. Then he became a lecture at school of OECE, USST and was promoted as full Professor from 2017. He had been a visiting scholar from 2013 to 2014 at University of Adelaide. His research interests mainly focus on the magnetic field measurement techniques.

Dr. Dima Cheskis is a faculty member at the Physics Department at Ariel University, Israel. His research focuses on studying the fundamental and application properties of Weyl and Dirac semimetals. Dr. Dima Cheskis’s use for his research transport and magneto-optical techniques. Recently he developed a simple Hall measuring system with extremely low noise working in microampere regime. Also, he performed intensive research of single-layer deposited graphene oxide films, studying the distribution of functional oxygen groups with STM/HR-TEM methods. Dr. Dima Cheskis received his Ph.D. from Tel-Aviv University in 2006, where he performed ultrafast magnetic dynamic research performed on ferromagnetic materials. After that, he finished the postdoctoral studies in prof. Efrat Lifshitz group at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 2010, where his research focuses on photoluminescence spectroscopy of nanocrystal quantum dots.

Dr. Jagoda Sławińska obtained her MSc. (2008) and PhD (2012) degrees in Physics from University of Łódź (Poland). Her doctoral dissertation ‘Electronic properties of graphene-based interfaces’ received a prestigious Prime Minister Award in 2013. Afterwards, she conducted postdoctoral research in Spanish National Research Council (ICMM-CSIC, 2013-2016), Italian National Research Council (CNR-SPIN, 2016-2018) and University of North Texas (Department of Physics, 2018-2020). In September 2020, she started a Rosalind Franklin Fellowship in Theory of Condensed Matter at the University of Groningen. Her scientific interests are focused on computational materials science, aiming at modelling, design and understanding of novel quantum materials for nanoelectronics and spintronics. A large part of her research is strongly linked to experimental investigations performed by the collaborators throughout the world.

Jefferson F. D. F. Araujo, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the Physics department at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) in Brazil and is head of the Laboratory Instrumentation and Magnetic Measurements (LIMM). Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Physics at PUC-Rio and was also a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Planetary Sciences (EAPS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT. He received his Ph.D. from PUC-Rio working on the construction of a magnetometer using a Hall effect sensor that operates at low temperatures. His research interests are in the areas of Scientific Instrumentation with an emphasis on: Magnetic scanning microscopy; magnetometry at room temperature and low temperatures; Manufacture of magnetic nanoparticles and construction of theoretical models, all these areas aim to develop and improve instruments for measuring magnetic fields generated by a variety of materials such as: magnetic nanoparticles linked to biological agents; Magnetic minerals present in terrestrial and extraterrestrial rocks; Steel components that contain cracks and corrosion that are part of the infrastructure of several industries.

Dr. Jiyong Fu is a professor at the Qufu Normal University. He received his PhD from Shandong University in 2006. Then, he worked as a Postdoc, at the University of Science and Technology of China (2006-2008), at the University of Sao Paulo (2010-2014), and at the Federal University of Sao Carlos (2014-2015). He was a visiting professor at the University of Brasilia (2015-2017). Now, he is a professor at the Qufu Normal University. His research interests mainly focus on spintronics, spin-orbit coupling, and valleytronics of low dimensional systems.

Junfeng Gao obtained Ph. D. in physics at Dalian University of Technology in 2012. Then he then he became a Postdoc Fellow in Beijing Computational Science Research Center from 2012 to 2014 and research assistant in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University from 2014 to 2015. As core-staff scientist, he worked at Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), A*STAR, Singapore from 2015 to 2018. Now, He is a full professor at school of physics, Dalian University from 2018. His research is focused on the theoretical design, growth mechanism, and physical properties of the low-dimensional materials.

Dr. Pratap Sahoo is now an Associate Professor at the School of Physics at National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) Bhubaneswar, India. He has obtained his PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2004. He has worked as a postdoctoral associate at (i) The University of Göttingen, Germany and (ii) KU Leuven, Belgium, and (iii)Technical University Braunschweig, Germany. Subsequently, he moved to Laboratory for Micro and Nanotechnology, Paul Scherrer Institute, Swwitzerlandas a research Scientist in the development of X-Ray Interference Lithography for sub nanometer devices and then joined NISER Bhubaneswar in 2009. Hisprime research interests areion-matter interaction and photon-matter interaction phenomena, subwavelength nanostructure for optical devices, oxide nanorods for excitonic physics, and nano-materials and quantum material synthesis for superconducting, nanomagnetism and spintronics applications. He has published about 120 papers and 2 book chapters.

Dr. Karthik V. Raman received his B.Tech degree in Engineering Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India in 2006, and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A. Subsequent to his Ph.D. in 2011, Dr. Raman worked at the IBM Research laboratory as a research scientist for a couple of years and subsequently moved to an academic position in India. Dr. Raman is currently a professor of experimental condensed matter physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Hyderabad in India. He is a recipient of the 2015 Pacifichem Early career chemist award and the 2020-Young Scientist Medal from the Indian National Science Academy. His research interest includes molecular spintronics and magnetic proximity effect studies in topological heterostructured materials.

Prof. Ke Wang obtained his BS and Ph.D degrees in microelectronics and solid state electronics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Currently, Prof. Ke Wang is heading the School of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering in East China University of Technology. Previously, he received Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) research award to carry out his work in RWTH-Aachen. Prof. Wang serves as Editorial Board Member for over ten scientific journals. He has published more than 70 peer reviewed papers and holds several patents. His expertise covers magnetic/optical/electronic thin films, particularly for information storage.

Leonardo dos Santos Lima is bachelor's at Fisica from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (2002), master's at Physic from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (2005) and doctorate at Fisica from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (2009). Has experience in Physic, focusing on Condensed Matter Physics, acting on the following subjects: one-dimensional, antiferromagnet, spin transport, spin dynamics and magnetically ordered material. Actually, has more than 80 articles published in reputable journals.

Leyla Colakerol Arslan completed my Ph.D. in Physics at Boston University in 2009, studying the electronic properties of Nitride semiconductors, and spent the last 2 years during Ph.D. at the Advanced Light Source (Berkeley, CA). I worked at the National Synchrotron Light Source, in Upton, NewYork as a postdoctora lfellow before joining the faculty at Gebze Technical University in Turkey. I’m currently Associate Professor of Physics at Gebze Technical University. My current research focuses on the half-metallic ferromagnetic compounds using a range of fabrication and characterization techniques to gain in sight on thestrain impact on the magnetic properties of thefilms, e.g. Mn5Ge3 and Heusler Compounds. My main goal is the understanding the static and dynamic electronic and magnetic coupling of the multiferroic systems to guide the material development.

Loi Ton That, Ph.D. is now an Assistant Professor at Department of Electrical Engineering, Tohoku University, Japan after receiving his Ph.D. from Akita University, Japan in 2019. He received Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC1) from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) from 2016 to 2019. His research is focused on developing magnetic particles and techniques for detecting their temperature and position for magnetic hyperthermia application.

Marilena Ferbinteanu is Associate Professor at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry Department. She graduated and received her MS, PhD degrees in inorganic chemistry, at the same university. Prof. Ferbinteanuwas awarded with the Alexander Von Humboldt fellowship andwith the Japan Society for Promotion Science fellowship and had several postdoctoral stages, invited lectures and visits in Germany, Japan, China, and Netherlands. Prof. Ferbinteanu promote advanced structural-property correlations combining the experiment with theory.The scientific interests comprised in the published works include activities on molecular magnetism; magnetic anisotropy; exchange coupling; coordination compound; ligand-field; structure-properties correlation; electronic structure modeling. Aside many peer-reviewed paper published in international journals, Prof. Ferbinteanu authored the book Putz, M. V.; Cimpoesu, F.; Ferbinteanu, M. Structural Chemistry, Principles, Methods, and Case Studies. Springer: Cham, 2018 and is guest editor at Magnetochemistry for the Special IssueMolecular Magnetism 2021: Paradigmatic Landmarks and Horizons. Prof. Ferbinteanu is member of Chemical Society of Japan, American Chemical Society (vice-president of ACS International Chapter Romania), Romanian Chemical Society.

Mario Reis is associate professor at Fluminense Federal University at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; where he heads a group with active graduate and post-doc researchers. Prof. Reis received his PhD (2003) from the Brazilian Center for Researcher in Physics (Rio de Janeiro) and University of Aveiro (Portugal), on experimental and theoretical Condensed Matter Physics. Nowadays, Prof. Reis’ research interests include activities on quantum oscillations, caloric effects, molecular magnets, nanomagnetism and quantum information and quantum thermodynamics on magnetic materials. Prof. Reis keeps a regular international scientific cooperation with several international universities, including countries like Chile, EUA, Russia, China, Spain and Portugal. Prof. Reis published two books about Magnetism and co-authored over a hundred of peer-reviewed international journals on those subjects mentioned above. He is also editor of two international Journals published by Elsevier: Physica B: Condensed Matter and Physics Open.

Tetsu Mitsumata received his PhD degree in Polymer Science from Hokkaido University in 1999 under the supervision of Profs. YoshihitoOsada and Jian Ping Gong. In this year, he moved to Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University as an assistant professor. In 2002, he joined the laboratory of Dr. Patrick De Kepper of CRPP Bordeaux in France. He works currently at Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University as a research professor since 2016. He has published more than 120 scientific papers (including reviews and books) and 11 patents dedicated to soft materials, especially magnetic responsive gels or elastomers.

Chandana Rath completed her Ph.D. in Physics at Utkal University in Bhubaneswar, Odisa. Her Research mainly focus on Nanomagnetics , Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors, Multiferroics, Ion Irradiation, Semiconducting Nanostructured Materials, Ceramic Glass composite. She was also awarded for Best Poster and Young Research Award.

Dr. Nguyen Hoa Hong got her PhD in Materials Science from JAIST, Japan in 2001 and her Habilitation in Physics from the Univ. of Tours, France in 2004. She was research associate at Leipzig Univ. in 2001-2002, then worked at the Univ. of Tours, France from 2002 to 2009 as CNRS postdoc, CNRS visiting researcher, then termed lecturer. She then worked as Faculty and was the Head of the Nanomagnetism Lab. at Seoul National Univ. from 2010 to 2018. Currently she has been working as Faculty at the Dept. of Condensed Matter Physics, Masaryk Univ., Brno, Czechia. Her main interest of research is about magnetism and magnetic materials. Her most significant work was about Diluted Magnetic Semiconducting Oxide Thin Films that are potential for Spintronic Applications. She has been author/co-author of 102 publications and currently has over 5200 citations and H-index as of 33 on Google Scholar.

Ning Zhang is currently a research assistant in Research Center for Quantum Sensing, Zhejiang Lab, Hangzhou, China. She received her Ph.D. degree in School of Instrumentation and Opto-electronics Engineering, Beihang University, China. Her research includes Solid-state Spin Materials, Quantum sensing, Magnetic Sensors, Temperature Sensors and Microwave Sensors.

PaulinaLeiva-Padilla, Posdoctoral Researcher at Université Gustave Eiffel, France. Dr. Leiva-Padilla is a Posdoctoral Researcher in the European Project ENSEMBLE at the Université Gustave Eiffel. Leiva-Padilla’s expertise is Materials for Pavements, with focus on laboratory analysis and modeling. Dr. Leiva-Padilla was a professor at the University of Costa Rica and Associate Researcher at the Laboratory of Materials and Structural Models (LanammeUCR) of this institution. Leiva-Padilla has recently finished a project related with the study of smart materials for pavements. These smart materials are related with the modification of asphalt materials with materials with magnetic/electric properties, with the aim to react to the application of magnetic fields. Specifically, Dr. Leiva-Padilla was working on asphalt materials with magnetically and electrically properties. This project was carried out as part of the efforts of the European Training Network SMARTI, in which Dr. Leiva-Padilla participated as a Marie Slodowska-Curie fellow at the University of Granada, Spain from 2017 to 2020.

Rodrigo Fernando C Marques Graduation in Chemistry from the Paulista State University Júlio de Mesquita Filho (1995); Master in Physics-Chemistry (Institute of Chemistry-UNESP); PhD in Physics-Chemistry from the University of York (England) and Institute of Chemistry (UNESP); Post-doctorate in Inorganic Chemistry by the Center d'Elaboration de Matériaux et d'Études Structurales, CEMES (France); Post-Doctorate (FAPESP) in Physics-Chemistry at IQ (UNESP). Has experience in the area of Biomedical Engineering, with emphasis on Biomaterials and Biocompatible Materials, mainly acting in synthesis and surface functionalization of magnetic nanoparticles for modification with drugs and antibodies for applications in biomedicine; Controlled release of drugs; Use of magnetic nanoparticles as supports for biocatalysts applied in the production of biofuels. He is currently professor of the Department of Physical Chemistry of the Chemistry Institute of UNESP, Araraquara Campus. He is coordinator of Cempeqc - Multidisciplinary Research Center on Fuels, Biofuels, Petroleum and Derivatives.

Sabri Koraltan started his research career in the group of Prof. Dieter Suess at the University of Vienna, where he is still active. While he is specializing in micromagnetic theory and simulations, his research topics of interest are frustrated magnetic materials, 3D magnetic nanostructures , magnetic sensing applications and topologically protected spin objects.

Sadovnikov Alexandr Vladimirovich is currently assistant professor at Saratov State University. He is also chair of physics of open systems. He was awarded with Medal of the name of professor VS Letohov for innovative work on laser physics in the year 2018, Prize winner of the name of PA Stolypin in 2017, Laureate of the Moscow Government Prize for Young Scientists in the nomination "Electronics and Communication in 2016.

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Prof.Dr. Selcuk Atalay was born in Turkey in 1964. He got his Ph.D. in magnetoelastic properties of amorphous wires in 1992 from Bath University, United Kingdom. His interests are oriented to magnetocaloric materials, amorphous ferromagnetic wires, and ribbons. His research interests also focus on magnetic measurements and magnetic sensors, especially magnetoimpedance and magnetoelastic effects. He has (co-)authored over 100 peer-reviewed papers in magnetism. At present, he is working as a lecturer, and also he is head of the applied magnetism group at the Physics Department, Inonu University, Turkey. Selcuk Atalay received the young scientist award from The Scientific and technological Research Council of Turkey, TUBITAK, in 2000 and the young researcher incentive award from Turkey Science Academy, TUBA, in 2002 for outstanding contributions in the field of magnetic materials and application.

Vivian Andrade is currently a Postdoc Researcher at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (Portugal) and also at the Institute of Physics for Advanced Materials, Nanotechnology and Photonics (IFIMUP), from which she received the Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics. Her research topic includes magnetic materials, polymer-based composites, multicaloric systems and nanostructures towards multifunctional applications.

Dr.TetsuoEndoh joined ULSI Research Center Toshiba Co. in 1987 and was engaged in the R&D and mass-production of NAND Memory. He became a lecturer at the Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University in 1995. Now, He is a professor at the Graduate School of Engineering, Director of the Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems (CIES)and Deputy director of the Center for Science and Innovation in Spintronics (CSIS) of Tohoku University. His current interests are advanced memory technology, 3D structure device, beyond-CMOS technology and low power processor technology such as 3D NAND memory, STT-/SOT-MRAM, Vertical GAA MOSFET, CMOS/Spintronics Hybrid circuit, Spintronics-based Non-Volatile Logic from IoT processor to AI processor, and so on. He is also interested in power-management technology, such as GaN on Si based power devices and power electronics from circuits to module/system for automotive applications and so on. He received the 14th Prime Minister’s Award for its Contribution to Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration in 2016.He received National Invention Award "the 21st century Encouragement of Invention Prize" for contribution to invention of 3D NAND memory in 2017.

Tsuyoshi　Uchiyama, Doctor (Ph.D in Engineering), now is an Associate professor of Intelligent Device, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science , Graduate School of Engineering. He got his M Sc in Material Science in 1984 and Magnetic Materials Doctor's degree (Ph.D.) at Nagoya University in 1987. He was guest researcher in Cardiff University, UK, in2000.

Vasily R. Shaginyan received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics in 1981 and his Doctor of Science degree in 1990 from Leningrad (Petersburg) Nuclear Physics Institute, and is currently a leading research fellow at this Institute. His fields of interest include theoretical nuclear physics, condensed matter physics, strongly correlated Fermi systems and HF compounds, quantum spin liquids, quasicrystals, high-Tc superconductors, and quasi-classical behavior of HF compounds. He is author and co-author of 160 papers, including seminal papers on the fermion condensation phase transition and flat bands, heavy fermion metals, quantum spin liquids, and quasicrystals.

Wen Cao (FIET, SMIEEE) received the B.Eng. in electrical engineering from Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, in 1991, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical machines and drives from the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, in 2004. Prof. Cao is Chair Professor of Electrical Power Engineering with Aston University, a Distinguished Professor at Anhui University, and a Visiting Professor at Southeast University, China. He is the Chairman for the Industrial Electronics Society, IEEE UK and Ireland Section; and a Committee Member for IET MPG. He received a “Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award” in 2016, the “Dragon’s Den Competition Award” from Queen’s University Belfast, in 2014, the “Innovator of the Year Award” from Newcastle University, UK, in 2013. He has been Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Industry Application, IET Power Electronics, and several other international journals.His research interests include fault analysis and condition monitoring of electrical machines and power electronics.

Prof. Wenbo Mi received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Department of Physics from Tianjin University in 2001, 2004 and 2006, respectively. Then he became an assistant professor at Department of Physics, Tianjin University and was promoted as full Professor from 2013. He was the visiting scholar in 2008 at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, then he became a Postdoc Fellow in King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in 2010. His research interests mainly focus on the theoretical design, fabrication and physical properties of the low-dimensional magnetic materials.

Dr. Wenli Pei received Ph.D. degrees inmaterials science from Northeastern University in 2002. Then, he became aPostdoc Fellowat Tohoku University and Akita University from 2003 to 2007. Hewas the visiting scholar at the Akita University in 2009, and from2011 to 2018. Now, he is a full professor at College of Materials Science and Enginering, Northeastern University. His research interests mainly focus on the structural design, fabrication and performance optimization of the magnetic materials.

Dr. WenzhongLiu, Chair Professor of the Department of measurement science and instrument, School of artificial intelligence and automation, Huazhong University of science and technology. His research interests include non-invasive temperature imaging using magnetic nanoparticles. He has published more than 20 articles in numerous journals, including Nanotechnology, Journal of Applied Physics, IEEE Transaction on Nanotechnology, Nano Scale Research, and Measurement Science and Technology. He also authors for 20 Chinese patents and 4 US patents.

Prof. Xiaojun Wu received her M.S. and B.S degrees from Sun Yat-sen (Zhongshan) University. After receiving her Ph.D degree from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in the June of 2013, she joined in Prof. Dr. Franz X. Kaertner’s group at DESY in Germany working on generation of strong-field terahertz radiation and its application in electron acceleration and compact x-ray source. She becomes an Associate Professor in Beihang University from the June of 2017. During August 2014-April 2017, she was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship from German government. From the May of 2021, she is an Associate Editor for 《Optics Express》. She serves as TPC members for FiO, CLEO, IRMMW-THz, MTSA, ISUPTW, and co-chair of POEM-TSA. Her research interests are Giant Radiation and Effective Application of THz pulse (GREAT), Spintronic THz Emission with Manipulated Polarization (STEMP), and Smart Multifunctional Application Research of THz (SMART).

Prof. Yonathan Anahory got his Ph.D. in physics in 2011 from University of Montréal (Canada) under the supervision of Prof. François Schiettekatte. The same year he started a postdoc at the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) in Prof. Eli Zeldov’s group. There he was leading the development of a novel scanning SQUID microscopy technique called the SQUID-on-tip. In 2016, he started he started his own group in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel).

Paola Tiberto attended from 1990 to 1993 a Ph.D course in experimental physics held by the Physics Department of Torino Politecnico. She is working at the National Institute for Metrological Research, INRIM) as a senior researcher. Presently, she is the head of the Advanced Materials Metrology and Life science Division. The National Institute for Metrological Research (INRIM) focuses on studying metrology (measurement sciences), and on conducting research on materials, as well as on developing innovative technologies and devices.In the frame of her scientific activity focused on magnetic materials she is author of more than 240 scientific papers published in International, peer-reviewed Journals in the field of magnetism. She serves as Editor in the journal of Materials Chemistry and Physics from Elsevier(https://www.journals.elsevier.com/materials-chemistry-and-physics/editorial-board/paola-tiberto). She acted as the chair of scientific conferences (ISMANAM 2013, EMSA 2016,IEEE-Advances on Magnetism 2018 ) and has participated to committees and advisory boards of conferences. She delivered several invited at scientific conferences on magnetism and magnetic materials. At present, she is President of the Italian Association for magnetism and member of the IEEE-Magnetics society Italy section. She has been responsible of several research projects (i.e. national as MIUR funding and EU in H2020) mainly focused on magneto-electric properties of magnetic materials.

Seil Sautbekov received the M.S. degree in physics and the Ph.D. degree in physics and mathematics from Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan, in 1977 and 1987, respectively, and the D.Sc. degree in physics and mathematics in 2002. From 1985 to 2004, he held several research and academic positions at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. From 2004 to 2018, he was a visiting professor at the L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Astana, Kazakhstan. He has authored over 100 scientific publications. Dr. Sautbekov was named the Best Lecturer of Higher Education in Kazakhstan in 2007 and was awarded for services in the Development of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2010.

Khian-Hooi Chew is currently an associate professor at the Department of Physics, University of Malaya. Prior to joining University of Malaya. He was a research associate and university postdoctoral fellow at the department of Applied Physics, the Hong Kong Polytechnic. In year 2006 to 2009, he joined the School of Physics, the University of Western Australia as a postdoctoral fellow. He was the TWAS-UNESCO Associate for the Institute of Atomic & Molecular Science of Academia Sinica, Taiwan. He is a member of the International Advisory Committee (IAC) of the Molecular Science and Technology (MIST) Program under the Taiwan International Graduate Program (TIGP) of Academia Sinica, Taiwan. He is currently serving as a member of both the Executive Board of the Asian Ferroelectric Association (AFA) and the Asian Electroceramics Association (AECA). He received the ACCMS Mid-Career Award (2017) from the Asian Consortium Computational Materials Science (ACCMS). His current research interests include first-principles and phenomenological studies of ferroelectrics and multiferroics, perovskites, 2D materials, energy and quantum materials.

Mario Carpentieri received the M.S. degree in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in advanced technologies for the optoelectronic and photonic and electromagnetic modeling from the University of Messina, Messina, Italy, in 1999 and 2004, respectively. During 2003–2005, he was a Visiting Researcher in the Department of Applied Physics, University of Salamanca, Spain. From 2005 to 2011, he was an Assistant Researcher at the University of Perugia and University of Calabria, Italy. Since 2012, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Politecnico di Bari, where he was an Assistant Professor, became an Associate Professor in 2015 and since May 2019 he is full professor. His current research interests include micromagnetic modeling of a variety of spintronic nanostructured materials and devices, including microwave nano-oscillators and diodes based on the spin-torque and spin-orbit effects, magnetic skyrmions. He is co-inventor of 2 patents, and co-authors of more than 100 articles published in well-established international journals (Phys. Rev. Lett., Nat. Comm., Appl. Phys. Lett., etc). He is co-founders of one start-up company for the development of parallel computation. He served on many technical program committees of international conferences and organized two international conferences as general Chair and he has been a member of several Program Committees. Prof. Carpentieri is currently a member of the Editorial board and Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Magnetics and Associate Editor of Scientific Reports (Nature).

Prof. Efrat Lifshitz, earned a PhD at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. She did postdoctoral researchat the University of Michigan as well as at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. She joined the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology in 1990. Prof. Lifshitz holds the MatweiGunsbuourgh Academic Chairat the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion. She is the recipientof numerous prizes, the most recent among them: The Taub - excellent in Science Award (2019); Lectureship speaker, Birkent University, Ankara, Turkey, (2018); Lectureship speaker, ETH, Switzerland, (2016); Israel Vacuum Society Excellence Award for Research(2016); UK-Israel Lectureship Award, Oxford University (2015); Tenne Family Prize in memory of Lea Tenne for Nanoscale Sciences, awarded by the Israel Chemical Society (2015); External Senior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (2015).Prof. Lifshitz has published ~ 220 scientific publications including in journals with high ranking peer review,including ACS Nano, Nano Letters, Adv. Mater., PRL, PRB; invited reviews (e.g., Nature photonics 2020, Science 2016, ACSNano 2020, J.Phys.Chem.Lett. (2019), Adv. Func.Matt. 2018); reviewed proceedings; and chapters in books. She has delivered approximately 100 invited talks at top-tier international scientific meetings chieflyduring the past decade (for example, MRS, E-MRS, TNT, nanoGe, GRC, QD20xx, NaNaX) and her research has beenfunded by assortednational agency resources, binational programs and various FP7 and Horizon2020 projects. In addition, she frequently serves onprestigious evaluation committees (ERC Synergy and Advance Grants, Cost, Wolf Prize, Israel Prize, Rothschild Foundation, and binational programs). Prof. Lifshitz has also been an active partner in the establishment of the Nanotechnology and Renewable Energy Centers at the Technion and has acted as chairman or co-chairman for a variety ofnational and international scientific meetings. Further details are providedin the attached short CV and the research description.

A graduate of International Max Planck Research School, Cristina Bran completed her PhD in physics at IFW Dresden for study on magnetization processes of antiferromagnetic coupled multilayers. She then joined the Division of Material Physics at Uppsala University as a postdoc working on synthesis and magnetic characterization of tetragonally strained superlattices. Currently, she is in charge of Electrochemistry/ Nanofabrication Laboratory at Institute of Materials Science of Madrid dedicated to synthesis and fabrication of cylindrical magnetic nanostructures. Her current research interests focus on the nanomagnetism of 3D cylindrical structures, including both materials preparation and nanoscale characterization, for potential applications in spintronic, biomedicine and energy transfer applications.To date she has authored over 50 peer-reviewed publications, delivered numerous talks at international conferences and serves as a guest editor for the special issue of Nanomaterials: "Novel Magnetic Properties in Curved Geometries".

Antonis N. Andriotis has completed his PhD at the age of 29 years from the University of Cape Town, (South Africa). He is an Emeritus Research Director in the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser of the Foundation of Research and Technology – Hellas (Greece). He is the author of three books on Computational Physics and two books on the History of Physics in Greece. He published more than 150 papers in reputed journals focusing on Condensed Matter Physics and Materials. He served as invited Reviewer by the European Commission and various National European Research Organizations.

Dieter Suess (University of Vienna, Computational Physics) is Head of the Research Unit of Physics of Functional Materials at the University of Vienna, Deputy Head of the Research Platform “MMM Mathematics-Magnetism-Materials”, and co-founder of the academic spin-off company SuessCo developing one of the leading simulation codes for computational micromagnetism. He has led the Christian-Doppler-Laboratory on Future Magnetic Sensors and Materials (2010–2020), co-financed by the company Infineon. He is one of the world-leading experts on computational (micro-) magnetism.

Dr. Hisham Hashim I received my PhD degree in Physics and Mathematics from the National University of Science and Technology (MISiS), Moscow, Russia in 2020. Now, I’m working as a Lecturer and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Tanta University, Egypt. My research interests mainly focus on the study and enhancement of the optical and magneto-optical properties of magnetic materials.

Yongkang Luo is a Professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. He has completed his PhD and B.S in department of Physics from Zhejiang University, China.

Gyung-Min Choi, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) in South Korea. He received a M.S. degree from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2008 with research on tunneling magnetoresistance. He received a Ph.D. degree from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2015 with research on heat-to-spin conversion in metallic systems. Prior to SKKU, he was a research scientist at the center for spintronics, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) during 2008 and 2017. His research is focused on spintronics, spincaloritronics, optospintronics. He has published more than 30 pear-reviewed papers, with citations over 800 and an h-index of 10 (Google Scholar). He was awarded the Young Research Award by Asian Union of Magnetics Societies in 2020.

Debakanta Samal is now a Reader-F at Institute of Physics (IoP), Bhubaneswar, India. He received his Ph.D degree in Physics from IISc Bangalore in the year 2010. Following a short stint as a research associate at IISc Bangalore, he held post-doctoral position at MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, The Netherlands for about three years. Subsequently, he moved to Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany and worked there as a scientist in the Department of Quantum Materials till 2016 and then joined IoP, Bhubaneswar, India. He was appointed as Head of the partner group of Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research at IoP in 2017. His primary research interest focuses on microscopic understanding of electronic and magnetic phenomena in designer thin films/heterostructures of complex transition metal oxides and quantum materials.

Dr. Katarzyna Siewierska completed her PhD in Physics in 2021 at University of Dublin, Trinity College. Her thesis title was `Development and Characterisation Zero-moment Half-metal'. The research involved fabrication and characterisation of Mn2RuxGa thin films using a variety of techniques including magneto-transport, magnetometry, magneto-optical Kerr effect microscopy and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism. To date she has published 10 peer-reviewed articles and has a h-index of 6 according to google scholar. Currently she is a postdoctoral researcher at Trinity College. Her main research interests are novel spintronic materials and synchrotron techniques.

Dr. Kuntal Roy is a faculty member at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal, India in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. He received his Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Tele-Communication Engineering from Jadavpur University, West Bengal, India (1999-2003). He held technical positions at Interra-IT, TCS, and IBM during 2003-2006. He received his Master of Science in Embedded Systems Design from Advanced Learning and Research Institute (ALaRI), Switzerland (2006-2008). He spent two years (2008-2010) as a PhD student at Purdue University, USA and finally received his PhD from Virginia Commonwealth University, USA in 2012. He held post-doctoral positions at Applied and Engineering Physics Department of Cornell University, USA (until April, 2013) and at Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Purdue University, USA. Dr. Roy's research interest is on nanoelectronic device physics and applications with focus on spintronics and nanomagnetics. He has published over 40 articles in refereed journals and conferences, delivered several invited talks (> 10) in conferences and workshops, and served in the international advisory and organizing committees of conferences on spintronics. His research works on multiferroic devices have been highlighted in Nature, SPIN, AIP News, PhysicsWorld, NanotechWeb, and also selected by Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology. Dr. Roy is a senior member of IEEE, members of IEEE Magnetics and Electron Devices Societies and American Physical Society (APS), and was featured in the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi and Who’s Who in the World.

Ramesh Chandra Nath is a professor in physics at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram (IISER-TVM), India. He received his PhD degree in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India. Prior to joining IISER-TVM, he worked as a postdoc at the University of Dortmund, Germany, Max-Planck Institute of Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany and then Ames Laboratory, Iowa, USA. He was a DST-Max Planck Society fellow from 2011 to 2014. His research interest ranges from soft condensed matter to hard condensed matter physics. His areas of expertise include synthesis and crystal growth, structural properties, magnetism, electronic correlations, and low temperature solid state NMR. At present, his research is focused on the quantum phase transitions in low-dimensional frustrated magnets based on transition metal and rare-earth ions.

Hsini Mohamed is a Contractuel Assistant at University of Monastir, Tunisia.