Yongbing XuYongbing Xu Chair Professor, The University of York, United Kingdom. Dr. Xu is the Chair Professor in Nanotechnology and heads the Spintronics and Nanodevice Laboratory in the University of York. He is the director of the York University-Nanjing Univrsity Joint Center (YNJC) for Spintronics and NanoEngineering, and "Qianren" Professor of Nanjing University and guest professor of several other Chinese universities. His research has been focused on spintronics and magnetic nanostructures, and more recently 2D materials (e.g., Graphene and Topological Insulators) for spintronics. He has published more than 200 refereed papers in leading academic journals including Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications, Scientific Reports, Nano Letter, Advanced Materials, ACS Nano, Applied Physics Letters and IEEE journals and given many invited talks/seminars at major international conferences including MRS, WUNSPIN, ICCE, EMN and Intermag. He is leading the Worldwide University Network (WUN) Grand Challenge Project on Spintronics (30 partners from 12 research leading UK, USA & China universities). Prof. Xu was a member of the NSF panel, the international advisory committee of the EU Warsaw NanoCenter, and the panel member of "The Technology and Innovation Future 2020" of the UK Government Science Office. He has been chair of 4 international spintronics conferences and 2 CMMP and Intermag "Roadmap for Spintronics" symposiums. He is the spintronics section editor of "Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science" by Elsevier, the series editor of "Electronic Materials and Devices" by Taylor and Francis/CRC Press, editor of "Handbook of Spintronics" by Springer (top 25%), and edited the very first spintronics book "Spintronic Materials and Technology" by CRC Press. He was winner of the EPSRC Advanced Fellowship award in 2000; and the VC's outstanding achievement award in 2011. He had interviews with BBC News24 and New Scientists on Spintronics. Read More Read Less