Spintronics Handbook, Second Edition: Nanoscale Spintronics and Applications - Volume Three

Evgeny Y. Tsymbal is a George Holmes University Distinguished Professor

at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Nebraska-

Lincoln (UNL), and Director of the UNL's Materials Research Science and

Engineering Center (MRSEC). He joined UNL in 2002 as an Associate

Professor, was promoted to a Full Professor with Tenure in 2005 and named

a Charles Bessey Professor of Physics in 2009 and George Holmes University

Distinguished Professor in 2013. Prior to his appointment at UNL, he was a

research scientist at University of Oxford, United Kingdom, a research fellow

of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Research Center-Ju lich,

Germany, and a research scientist at the Russian Research Center " Kurchatov

Institute," Moscow. Evgeny Tsymbal's research is focused on computational

materials science aiming at the understanding of fundamental properties of

advanced ferromagnetic and ferroelectric nanostructures and materials relevant

to nanoelectronics and spintronics. He has published over 230 papers,

review articles, and book chapters and presented over 180 invited presentations

in the areas of spin transport, magnetoresistive phenomena, nanoscale magnetism,

complex oxide heterostructures, interface magnetoelectric phenomena,

and ferroelectric tunnel junctions. Evgeny Tsymbal is a fellow of the American

Physical Society, a fellow of the Institute of Physics, UK, and a recipient of the

UNL's College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Research and Creativity Award

(ORCA). His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation,

Semiconductor Research Corporation, Office of Naval Research, Department of

Energy, Seagate Technology, and the W. M. Keck Foundation.

Igor Zutic received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics at the University of

Minnesota, after undergraduate studies at the University of Zagreb, Croatia.

He was a postdoc at the University of Maryland and the Naval Research Lab.

In 2005 he joined the State University of New York at Buffalo as an Assistant

Professor of Physics and got promoted to an Associate Professor in 2009 and

to a Full Professor in 2013. He proposed and chaired Spintronics 2001:

International Conference on Novel Aspects of Spin-Polarized Transport

and Spin Dynamics, at Washington DC. Work with his collaborators spans a

range of topics from high-temperature superconductors, Majorana fermions,

proximity effects, van der Waals materials, and unconventional magnetism,

to the prediction and experimental realization of spin-based devices that are

not limited to magnetoresistance. He has published over 100 refereed articles

and given over 150 invited presentations on spin transport, magnetism, spintronics,

and superconductivity. Igor Z utic is a recipient of the 2006 National

Science Foundation CAREER Award, the 2005 National Research Council/

American Society for Engineering Education Postdoctoral Research Award,

and the National Research Council Fellowship (2003- 2005). His research is

supported by the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research,

the Department of Energy, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency,

and the Airforce Office of Scientific Research. He is a fellow of the American

Physical Society.