Editor-in-Chief

Elke Arenholz, PhD
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory,
Richland, WA, USA
 

Elke Arenholz’s research interests lie in the area of spintronics, magnetism and magnetic materials as well as quantum materials. Dr. Arenholz pioneered the development of new and unique research instruments and techniques to study magnetic materials with synchrotron radiation. Her diverse research portfolio is reflected in her nearly 400 publications.

 

Advisory Editors

Samuel Bladwell, PhD
Senior Editor, Nature Communications
 

Samuel handles submissions related to magnetic materials and spintronics at Nature Communications. He completed his PhD in theoretical condensed matter physics at the University of New South Wales, focusing on strongly spin-orbit coupled systems. He then continued his research as a postdoctoral fellow at UNSW/ARC CoE in Future Low Energy Electron Technologies (FLEET). 

Jiajun Zhu, PhD
Senior Editor, Nature Communications
 

Jiajun joined Nature Communications in September 2019, where he handles manuscripts on ferroelectrics, multiferroics, oxides, and semiconductor physics. He received his PhD in microelectronics from East China Normal University which included an exchange experience at the University of Cambridge. He continued his research as a postdoctoral fellow at Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, and the University of Manchester, investigating the optical and electronic properties of ferroelectrics, topological insulators, and ultrathin materials.

Associate Editors

Hendrik Ohldag, PhD 
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
Berkeley, CA USA
 

I am an x-ray microscopist, using soft x-rays at a synchrotron source to study complex and magnetic materials. In particular I am interested in using the stroboscopic nature of synchrotron radiation to investigate the dynamics of magnetic systems with picosecond time resolution.

 

Anjan Barman, PhD
S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences,
Salt Lake, Kolkata, India

 

Anjan Barman's research interests lie in the fields of ultrafast spin dynamics, magnonics, spintronics and spin-orbitronics. He is a pioneer in the field of all-optical study of spin-obit effects in ferromagnetic, nonmagnetic and 2D heterostructures. He has authored nearly 250 publications in journals and books. He is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and Institute of Physics, UK.

 

Pu Yu, PhD
Tsinghua University,
Beijing, China

 

Professor Yu received his PhD from University of California at Berkeley in 2011, and then subsequently worked at UC Berkeley and RIKEN as a postdoc fellow. He joined Tsinghua University as an Assistant Professor in 2012, and then Professor since 2018. His research interest lies in the experimental studies of electronic and magnetic states of complex oxide thin films. His current research focuses on designing novel oxide thin films with ferromagnetic and multiferroic properties through atomic-scale precision sample growth, and to manipulating the electronic states of oxides through electric field controlled ionic evolution.

 

Kab-Jin Kim, PhD 
KAIST,
Daejeon, South Korea

 

Professor Kim's research area includes experimental study on the spin dynamics and transport. A particular focus has been devoted to the magnetic domain wall dynamics and their practical applications. Currently, his research interest lies in exploring the spin dynamics and transport in extended material systems, such as ferrimagnets and antiferromagnets.

 

Qiming Shao, PhD 
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
Hong Kong

 

Professor Shao received his Bachelor’s degree in 2013 from Tsinghua University and his Ph.D. in 2019 from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His lab aims to realize energy and time-efficient hardware for physical and quantum intelligence. His research interests are novel electronic and spintronic quantum materials and structures for memory and unconventional computing applications.

 

Lijun Zhu, PhD 
Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Beijing, China

 

Professor Zhu received his Ph.D. in condensed matter physics from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2014. He was a post-doctoral researcher at Martin-Luther University, Germany (2014-2016) and at Cornell University, United States (2016-2021). In 2022 he joined Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences as a professor and principal investigator of the magnetism group. His research focuses on the manipulation of magnetic materials by spin currents for memory and computing applications.

 

Joo-Von Kim, PhD
Université Paris-Saclay
Palaiseau, France

 

Dr. Kim is a theoretical and computational physicist. His research primarily covers nonlinear and stochastic magnetization processes in nanostructured magnetic materials, with a focus on applied aspects related to information processing and unconventional computing.

 

Editorial Board Members

Kyung-Jin Lee, PhD, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea

Jagoda Slawinska, PhD, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Sergio O. Valenzuela, PhD, ICREA and Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), Barcelona, Spain

Shun Kanai, PhD, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Alexey Kimel, PhD, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Xiaoxi Huang, PhD, Cornell University, New York, USA

Pranaba Kishor Muduli, PhD, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

Alvaro S Núñez, PhD, Universidad de Chile, Chile

Stuart S. P. Parkin, PhD, Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Germany

Wenqing Liu, PhD, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

Nicoleta Lupu, PhD, National Institute of Research and Development for Technical Physics, Romania

Yingying Wu, PhD, University of Florida, Florida, USA

Qiong Ma, PhD, Boston College, Massachusetts, USA

Saroj Prasad Dash, PhD, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Sarnjeet Singh Dhesi, PhD, Diamond Light Source, UK

Elvira Paz, PhD, International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Portugal

Alina Maria Deac, PhD, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany

Martin Bowen, PhD, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France

 

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