Jagadeesh Moodera

Guest Editor for this issue of MRS Bulletin

Physics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; tel. 617-253-5423; and email [email protected].

Moodera is senior research scientist and group leader at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also a visiting professor at Eindhoven University of Technology and the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing, and Distinguished Institute Professor at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai, where he received his PhD degree in physics. He researches spin tunneling, co-existence of ferromagnetism and superconductivity, superconductors in internal exchange fields, molecular spintronics, spin transport and exchange effects in topological insulator films, and Majorana fermions. He is a NSF Competitiveness and Innovation Fellow, APS Fellow, and co-recipient of the APS Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize in 2009.

Bert Koopmans

Guest Editor for this issue of MRS Bulletin

Department of Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands; email [email protected].

Koopmans has been full professor in the Department of Applied Physics at Eindhoven University of Technology since 2003. He received his master’s degree in physics (1988) and his PhD degree (1993) from the University of Groningen. After a postdoctoral period at the Radboud University Nijmegen, he spent three years as a Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Physics before joining Eindhoven University of Technology in 1997. He researches organic spintronics, magnetic domain wall devices, and ultrafast magnetization dynamics.

Peter M. Oppeneer

Guest Editor for this issue of MRS Bulletin

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Sweden; email [email protected].

Oppeneer is a professor of physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Uppsala University, where he works in theoretical-computational condensed-matter physics with an emphasis on the computer-based modeling of complex magnetic materials and magnetic molecule-substrate interactions. He obtained his PhD degree from the Free University, Amsterdam, and began first-principles computational studies of magnetic systems in 1988 as a postdoctoral researcher in Darmstadt prior to his present position.

Nicolae Atodiresei

Peter Grünberg Institut and Institute for Advanced Simulation, Forschungszentrum Jülich and JARA, Germany; email [email protected].

Atodiresei is a scientific staff member at Forschungszentrum Jülich working with Stefan Blügel in theoretical investigations of hybrid interfaces for molecular electronics and molecular spintronics. He received his BSc (1998) and MSc (2000) degrees from Alexandru Ioan Cuza University and his PhD degree (2004) from RWTH Aachen University. His thesis work involved theoretical simulations of molecular electronics under the supervision of Kurt Schroeder.

Clément Barraud

Laboratoire Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques, Université Paris-Diderot, France; email [email protected].

Barraud is an assistant professor at the Université Paris Diderot. He completed his PhD degree from University Pierre and Marie Curie on molecular spintronics within the Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales in 2011. He spent his postdoctoral period at ETH Zürich in Ensslin’s group, where he studied mesoscopic transport in graphene. His current research at the Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques laboratory focuses on the study of spin transport through functional molecules.

Peter Bobbert

Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands; email [email protected].

Bobbert is an associate professor at Eindhoven University of Technology. He received his master’s degree in physics (1984) and PhD degree (1988) from Leiden University. After a fellowship from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences at Delft University, where he worked on quantum phase transitions, he joined Eindhoven University of Technology in 1991. His research involves various theoretical aspects of organic electronics, including organic spintronics.

Jens Brede

Institute of Applied Physics and Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center Hamburg, University of Hamburg, Germany; email [email protected].

Brede is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Physics at the University of Hamburg. He received his PhD degree in 2011 studying organic molecules interacting with ferromagnetic surfaces by means of spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy. He led the molecular spintronics activities in Roland Wiesendanger’s research group from November 2011 to December 2013.

Alek V. Dediu

Institute of Nanostructured Materials, CNR-ISMN, Italy; email [email protected].

Dediu is leader of the spintronics group at the Institute of Nanostructured Materials, Italian National Council of Research. He received a diploma in experimental physics in 1982 and his PhD degree on superconductivity in 1989 from the Moscow Physical-Engineering University. In 2000–2002, he pioneered first experimental studies on organic spintronics. His research interests include organic spintronics, interface physics, oxide magnetism, memristive properties in complex materials and hybrid interfaces, and nanomagnetism for medical applications.

Eitan Ehrenfreund

Technion-Israel Institute of Technology; email [email protected].

Ehrenfreund is a professor emeritus of physics at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and adjunct professor of physics at the University of Utah. He received his BS (1963) and PhD degrees in physics (1970) from Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is an APS Fellow and a member of the Israel Physical Society. His research includes magnetic, optical, and photoexcitations properties of conjugated organic polymers and semiconducting quantum heterostructures; and spintronics and magnetic field effects in organic-based electro-optical devices.

Marta Galbiati

Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales and Université Paris-Sud, France; email [email protected].

Galbiati is a PhD student at the University of Paris Sud within the joint industrial/academic laboratory Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales. She received her BS degree in physics engineering from the Politecnico di Milano and her MS degree from the École Polytechnique in 2010. Her research focuses on organic and molecular spintronics.

Richard Mattana

Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales and Université Paris-Sud, France; email [email protected].

Mattana is a researcher at the French CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research). He completed his PhD degree at the University of Paris Sud in 2003 on semiconductors-based spintronics under the supervision of Albert Fert. He spent his postdoctoral period in Grenoble researching ferromagnetic semiconductors before joining the CNRS/Thales joint laboratory in 2004. His current work includes organic and molecular spintronics.

Tho D. Nguyen

Physics and Astronomy Department, University of Georgia, USA; email [email protected].

Nguyen is an assistant professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department at the University of Georgia. He received his BS degree in physics in 1996 from Can Tho University and his PhD degree in condensed-matter physics in 2008 from the University of Iowa. His research involves organic spintronic devices.

Frédéric Petroff

Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales and Université Paris-Sud, France; email [email protected].

Petroff is a senior research scientist for the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the deputy director of the joint CNRS/Thales Physics Laboratory since 2007. He received his PhD degree in physics in 1992 from the University of Paris Sud. He has published 150 publications on spintronics and co-authored the 1988 paper on the discovery of giant magnetoresistance in Fe/Cr superlattices. He has made contributions to magnetic tunnel junctions, spin filters, magnetic single electron transistors, and molecular spintronics.

Karthik V. Raman

Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India; email [email protected].

Raman holds a faculty position at IISc. He received his B.Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (2006) and his PhD degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2011), where he worked at the Francis Bitter Magnet Lab under J.S. Moodera’s supervision. After his PhD, he worked at IBM Research as a visiting scientist on access diode and novel memory technology. In 2013, he received the Ramanujan Faculty Fellowship from the Government of India. His research includes nano-spintronics and novel memory technologies.

Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta

S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, India; email [email protected].

Saha-Dasgupta is a professor in the Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department and the head of the Thematic Unit of Excellence on Computational Materials Science at S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences. She has a PhD degree from Calcutta University (1995). She is a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, National Academy of Sciences (India), and West-Bengal Academy of Science and Technology; recipient of the Swarnajayanti Fellowship; and headed the Max Planck India partner group. She works in computational condensed-matter physics, specifically first-principles electronic structure calculations to understand the physics and chemistry of novel and complex materials.

Pierre Seneor

Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales and Université Paris-Sud, France; email [email protected].

Seneor is an associate professor at the University of Paris-Sud and a junior fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France. He completed his PhD degree from Ecole Polytechnique on spin dependent tunneling in oxides in 2000 under the supervision of A. Fert. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the California Institute of Technology before joining the joint laboratory Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales. He works on nano and molecular spintronics, including graphene.

Sergio Tatay

Chemistry Institute for Molecular Science, University of Valencia, Spain; email [email protected].

Tatay is a Juan de la Cierva Researcher at the Chemistry Institute for Molecular Science. He completed a PhD degree from the University of Valencia under the supervision of E. Coronado in 2008. Subsequently, he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales under the supervision of P. Seneor and R. Mattana. He works on the integration over surfaces of new systems with potential for the development of the areas of molecular electronics and spintronics.

Z. Valy Vardeny

Physics and Astronomy Department, University of Utah, USA; email [email protected].

Vardeny is a distinguished professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department at the University of Utah. He received his BSc (1969) and PhD (1979) degrees from the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology. He researches transient and continuous wave spectroscopies and nonlinear optics of organic semiconductors, spintronics, and optoelectronic devices. He is an APS Fellow, co-recipient of the APS 2008 Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids, and recipient of the 2005 Utah Governor’s Medal in Science and Technology and the 2009 Rosenblatt Award for Excellence.

Roland Wiesendanger

Department of Physics, University of Hamburg, Germany; email [email protected].

Wiesendanger has been a full professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Hamburg since 1993. He received his PhD (1987) and Habilitation (1990) degrees from the University of Basel. He has over 500 publications and has presented more than 450 invited talks. His awards include the Gaede-Prize (1992), the Max Auwärter Prize (1992), the Karl Heinz Beckurts Prize (1999), the Philip Morris Research Prize (2003), two Advanced Grant Awards of the European Research Council (2008 and 2013), the Nanotechnology Recognition Award of the AVS (2010), and the Heinrich Rohrer Grand Medal (2014).

Markus Wohlgenannt

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, USA; email [email protected].

Wohlgenannt is an associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Iowa, where he has been since 2002. He received his master’s degree in physics (1997) from the Technical University of Graz and his PhD degree (2000) from the University of Utah. His PhD thesis work was on electron spin resonance of pi-conjugated semiconductors. He has published over 80 papers.