MAGNETISMMEET2024

Alexei Mikhail Tsvelik is a distinguished physicist and senior research scientist at the CMPMSD division of Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, NY. He obtained his Ph.D. in Heavy Fermion Systems from the Kurchatov Institute for Atomic Energy in 1980 and a BSc Honors in Physics and Engineering from the Moscow Physical-Technical Institute in 1977. With a wealth of research and professional experience, Tsvelik has held various positions, including a professorship at the University of Oxford from 1998 to 2001 and multiple postdoctoral research fellowships at renowned institutions such as Harvard University, Princeton University, and the University of Florida. He has been a research staff member at the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics in Moscow and a junior research associate at the Institute for High-Pressure Physics in Moscow. Tsvelik's contributions to the field have earned him several prestigious awards, including the Alexander von Humboldt Prize in 2014, the Brookhaven Science and Technology Award in 2006, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2002. In addition to his academic and research roles, Tsvelik has actively organized conferences and workshops worldwide, demonstrating his commitment to scientific collaboration and knowledge dissemination. He has participated in various research programs, emphasizing his dedication to advancing the understanding of strongly correlated electronic systems and quantum-critical phenomena. Tsvelik has given numerous invited talks and lectures throughout his career, showcasing his expertise in theoretical condensed matter physics. His research spans a wide range of topics, from the behavior of spin ladders and quantum Hall states to the application of conformal field theory in plateau transitions. Tsvelik's work extends beyond traditional academia, as he has served as a referee for reputable scientific journals and played a crucial role in organizing conferences and workshops, fostering collaboration and innovation in theoretical physics.

Professor Alan Tennant received a B.Eng degree in Electronic Engineering and a Ph.D. degree in Microwave Engineering from the University of Sheffield, Sheffield, U.K., in 1985 and 1992, respectively. Between degrees he worked at BAe Systems, Stevenage, UK, working on various microwave systems. He then joined the UK Defence Evaluation and Research Establishment (DERA) where he worked on phased array antenna systems before taking up an academic post at Hull University. He returned to Sheffield University in 2001 as a Senior Lecturer and then Professor of Applied Electromagnetics in the Communications and Radar Group where he is involved in research into techniques, materials and signal processing for adaptive radar signature management, novel three-dimensional phased array antenna topologies, acoustic array systems, and new research into time-modulated array antennas, Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM), localised radio beams, surface wave propagation, and direction dependent antenna modulation systems. He is also pursuing new research in to magnetic metasuraces, which will be reported at this conference. He has published over 180 academic papers including several invited papers on adaptive stealth technology. His research has attracted substantial funding from both industry and UK government sources.

Dr. Arcady Zhukov received a 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 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, 7th 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 plenaries, keynote and invited talks at few international conferences. He is an associate Editor of IEEE Magnetic letters and the International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems, a 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).

Philip W. T. Pong received a B.Eng. from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 2002 with 1st class honors. Then he obtained a Ph.D. in engineering at the University of Cambridge in 2005. He was a three-year postdoctoral researcher at the Magnetic Materials Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). His research interest focuses on fault detection, predictive maintenance, and anomaly detection of the power grid. He is the Founding Director of the Green Technology Research and Training Laboratory, leading offshore wind energy research and education activities at NJIT. Philip Pong is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET), a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP), a Fellow of the Energy Institute (FEI), a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals, and Mining (FIMMM), a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (FHKIE), a Fellow of the NANOSMAT Society (FNS), a chartered physicist (CPhys), a chartered engineer (CEng), a chartered energy engineer, a registered professional engineer (R.P.E. in Electrical, Electronics, Energy), and a Senior Member of IEEE (SMIEEE). He serves on the editorial boards for several IEEE and SCI journals.

Cong Wang: Professor of Physics at the School of Integrated Circuit Science and Engineering, Beihang University. His research interests are in the fields of condensed matter physics, spintronics, and solar energy materials, including magnetic structure, “lattice-spin-charge” coupling in antiperovskite structured Mn3XN(C) materials, such as abnormal thermal expansion, baromagnetic, magnetocaloric, abnormal/spin Hall effect, non-collinear magnetic structure, and spin switch. He has published more than 240 papers, and 15 national patents, and has given more than 30 invited speeches at International Conferences. He was a Highly Cited Chinese Researcher for Elsevier in 2020, and 2021. He got his Ph. D in 1995 from the Inst. of Physics, CAS, China, and worked as an Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) research fellow at Uni. of Karlsruhe Germany from 2,1998-5,1999. He began to work as an associate Professor at Beihang University on 7, 1999, and got his permanent Professor position in Dept. of Physics, at Beihang University from 7, 2003. He is a member of the Chinese Physics Society and Chinese Crystallography Society, a vice-director of the Powder X-ray Diffraction Committee, a vice-director of the Ecomaterial Committee of the Chinese Material Society, a member of Phase Diagram and Phase Transition Committee, a member of the International Center for Diffraction Data (ICDD, USA). He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journals: Journal of Materiomics, J. Materials China, J. Chinese Ceramic Society, etc.

Dr. Osman Adiguzel graduated from the Department of Physics, Ankara University, Turkey in 1974 and received a Ph.D.- degree from Dicle University, Diyarbakir-Turkey. He studied at Surrey University, Guildford, UK, as a post-doctoral research scientist from 1986-1987, and his studies focused on shape memory alloys. He worked as a research assistant, from 1975-80, at Dicle University and shifted to Firat University in 1980. He became a professor in 1996 and retired due to the age limit of 67, following an academic life of 45 years. He published over 80 papers in international and national journals; He joined over 120 conferences and symposia at the international and national levels as Plenary Speaker, Keynote Speaker, Invited speaker, speaker, or Poster presenter. He served as the program chair or conference chair/co-chair in some of these activities. In particular, he joined in the last six years (2014 - 2019) over 60 conferences as Speaker, Keynote Speaker, and Conference Co-Chair organized by different companies in different countries. Additionally, he retired at the end of November 2019, and contributed with Keynote/Plenary Speeches at over 120 Virtual/Webinar Conferences, due to the coronavirus outbreak within three years of his retirement, in 2020 and 2022. Dr. Adiguzel served as his directorate of the Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Firat University from 1999-2004. He supervised 5 Ph.D.- theses and 3 M. Sc theses. He is also a technical committee member of many conferences. He received a certificate awarded to him and his experimental group in recognition of the significant contribution of 2 patterns to the Powder Diffraction File – Release 2000. The ICDD (International Centre for Diffraction Data) also appreciates the cooperation of his group and interest in the Powder Diffraction File. Scientific fields of Dr. Adiguzel: Shape memory effect and displacive phase transformations in shape memory alloys and other alloys, molecular dynamics simulations, alloy modeling, electron microscopy, electron diffraction, x-ray diffraction, and crystallography.

Dr. Djordje Spasojević is a Full professor at the Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade, Serbia. He is teaching courses: Physics laboratory 1, Waves and optics, Theoretical physics of plasma (Undergraduate), Advanced level course on condensed matter theory (Master), Physics of magnetism, Nonequilibrium statistical physics, Kinetic theory of ionized gases and plasma (Doctoral studies). Author of four University course textbooks. Supervisor of defended 4 Ph.D. and more than 10 MSc theses. He is Head of the Chair for Physics of Condensed Matter and Head of the Laboratory for fluctuation phenomena and superconductivity. He was Head of the Center for Quantum Theoretical Physics (2019-2023) at the Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade. Expert in Nonequilibrium dynamics of complex systems, Physics of ionized gases, and magnetic fluctuation measurements. Author of more than 50 scientific papers. More than 30 Invited talks at International conferences and foreign Universities. The referee for prestigious scientific journals (e.g. Physical Review E and B, Scientific Reports, etc.) and member of several renowned Scientific organizations, Councils, and Commissions. Leader and participant in several scientific Projects.

Micky Barry Holcomb did her undergraduate research in ultrafast optics with Norman Tolk at Vanderbilt University. Her graduate work with Ramamoorthy Ramesh at UC Berkeley focused on high-quality perovskite growth and beamline characterization of multiferroic thins and heterostructures. She skipped a post doc and went straight into a faculty position at West Virginia University, where she is now an Associate Professor. She continues to take advantage of her past skills in growth, optics and synchrotron work (as well as other new ones) to study a wide range of materials, including magnets, topological insulators and superconductors. She loves to collaborate, so please reach out about how she might be able to help you. Recent research focuses on the discovery of a new magnetic phenomenon and leading a team to help NASA understand the materials physics going on in some superconducting devices.

She has more than five years of teaching and research experience and has many prestigious opportunities and travel grant awards to present papers at international conferences in both the United States and India. Presently she is working as a postdoctoral research scientist at the University of Maryland. Her research area is the synthesis and characterization of electrolytes used in Lithium Batteries. Within a few months after attaining her Ph.D. in Physics, she has already been recognized by the prestigious Women in Chemistry, American Chemical Society at the ACS Fall Meeting, 2022. She has authored more than 20 papers in Peer-Reviewed, Indexed Journals, and Conference Proceedings.

Since August 2017, Dr. Kuntal Roy has been 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 Telecommunication 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 the Advanced Learning and Research Institute (ALaRI), Switzerland (2006-2008). He spent two years (2008-2010) as a Ph.D. student at Purdue University, USA, and finally received his Ph.D. from Virginia Commonwealth University, USA in 2012. He held post-doctoral positions at the Applied and Engineering Physics Department of Cornell University, USA (until April, 2013) and at the 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, a member 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.

Dr. NuhaAlekhmimi completed her Ph.D. at 35 years from FSUJena University, Germany. She is an instructor at the Clinical Laboratory Sciences Department, working as a Biomedical Consultant and Inventor of Medical Devices at AlArfaj Medical Co, KSA. She has over 4 Patents in national and international PCT offices and 7 publications. Throughout her career, she has served as an academic and cell biologist researcher in medical and biotechnology research, providing leadership in the scientific community.

Dr. Woo has a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering, and he has obtained Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M. He majors in energy systems such as HVAC and its heat transfer, optimal design and control of refrigerator, reliability design of thermal components, and failure Analysis of thermal components in the marketplace using the Non-destructive such as SEM & XRAY. From 1992.03–1997, he worked in Agency for Defense Development, Chinhae, South Korea, where he has a researcher in charge of the Development of the Naval Weapon System. He was working as a Senior Reliability Engineer in Refrigerator Division, Digital Appliance, SAMSUNG Electronics. Now he is working as an associate professor in the mechanical department, at Ethiopian Technical University.

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

He has more than 30 years of experience and has visited South and South East Asian countries for research and to present papers at international conferences. Presently he is working as a Professor at King Saud University and has worked as a faculty in Manufacturing Engineering at Government University in Malaysia. He was a Keynote Speaker for 45 International/National Conferences and Chair & Co-Chair for 14 International Conferences held in Asia, and a member of the Advisory and Technical Committee for more than 51 International Conferences across the world. He is a member of the Editorial Board/Reviewer for more than 08 international journals and has evaluated 35 Doctoral theses in Mechanical, Manufacturing, and Management. He has to his credit 2 books published by reputed publishers and authored more than 46 research papers in Peer-Reviewed, Indexed Journals, and Conference Proceedings.

I am a researcher with expertise in theoretical physics and materials science. My scientific activities include investigating the excitation of ions by neutral atoms at intermediate energies and exploring the structural, mechanical, and magnetic properties of various compounds. I have presented my research at several international conferences, including the National Days on Materials, the International Seminar on Plasma Physics, and the International Workshop on Multifunctional Materials. My works have also been published in AIP Conference Proceedings and many computational materials science journals.

Prof. Dr. YarubAl-Douri is from the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani. Al-Douri has initiated Nanotechnology Engineering MSc Program and Nano Computing Laboratory. He has received numerous accolades including World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University, USA 2022, 2021 & 2020, OeAD Award, Austria 2020, JSPS Award 2019, AUA Award 2019, IFIA 2019, TWAS-UNESCO Associateship (Twice) Award 2015 & 2012, the total is 71 awards. Al-Douri is Associate Editor of Nano-Micro Letters (IF=23.655, Q1, Springer), Editor-in-Chief of Experimental and Theoretical NANOTECHNOLOGY, and Editor-in-Chief of the World Journal of Nano Science and Engineering.