Jeffrey Bokor is the Paul R. Gray Distinguished Professor of Engineering in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at UC Berkeley, with a joint appointment as Senior Scientist in the Materials Science Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1976 and 1980, respectively. From 1980 to 1993, he was at AT&T Bell Laboratories where he did research on a variety of topics in laser science, advanced lithography for integrated circuits, as well as semiconductor physics and technology, and held several management positions. He joined the Berkeley faculty in 1993. His current research activities include nanomagnetics/spintronics, graphene electronics, nanophotonics, and nano-electromechanical systems. He is a fellow of IEEE, APS, and OSA.

Chiara Ciccarelli is Professor of Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. She completed her undergraduate and master studies at Tor Vergata University in Rome. After her PhD in Cambridge she held a Junior Research Fellowship at Gonville and Caius College. In 2017 she started her research group at the Cavendish Laboratory with a Winton Advanced Research Fellowship. She is a Royal Society University Research Fellow since October 2017. In 2023 she was nominated Wohlfarth Lecturer by the Institute of Physics in recognition of her "significant contributions to the understanding of magnetism" and has been awarded an ERC consolidator grant.

Giovanni Finocchio received the Ph.D. degree in advanced technologies in optoelectronic, photonic and micromagnetic modeling from the University of Messina, Italy, in 2005. He is full professor at the Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Physical Sciences and Earth Sciences of the University of Messina. Current research directions are spintronics, skyrmionic and unconventional computing. He is director of the laboratory PETASPIN (Petascale computing and Spintronics) at Messina. His research interests include spintronics, skyrmions, and computing (https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=eKDbn-oAAAAJ&hl=en). In the last 10 years, he served on many technical program committees of international conferences and organized more than 10 international conferences and workshops as Chair, Program Committee Member, or in other positions. He is regularly invited at conferences in Magnetism and Spintronics. He is also president of Petaspin association (www.petaspin.com), AdCOM member of the IEEE Magnetics society, chair of the TC-16 on Quantum, neuromorphic and unconventional computing of the IEEE Nanotechnology council and past-chair of the IEEE Magnetics Italy chapter (2019-2022). Since 2022, he is also associate editor of Physical Review Applied (APS).

Dr. Ganping Ju, is currently the Chief Media Technologist (Exe. Director) in Recording Media R&D center, Seagate Technology, Fremont, California, where he and his team are currently focusing on technology staging to develop the next generation recording innovations including HAMR and beyond. Right after receiving his Ph.D degree in Physics (on ultrafast spin dynamics) from Brown University in 1999, he joined Seagate Research, and worked with the team to pioneer all the magnetic, materials and thermal design enabling HAMR Media, In 2009, he is transitioned to Seagate Research Center in Fremont to help further mature the HAMR media technologies to support HAMR Productization. Dr. Ju has co-authored over 100 publications and co-invented over 50 patents, mostly HAMR related. Dr. Ju has also been active in organizing international conferences (Intermag and TMRC) and leading technical committees for recording industrial consortiums.

Bert Koopmans obtained his PhD from the University of Groningen. After a period as postdoc at the Radboud University Nijmegen, he spent three years as a Humboldt Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Physics in Stuttgart. In 1997 he joined the Department of Applied Physics at TU/e, where he became a Full Professor and leader of the group Physics of Nanostructures (FNA). Since 2014, Bert has been on the management team of the Research Centre for Integrated NanoPhotonics. In 2004 Bert was awarded an NWO Vici grant. He has been coordinator of the center for NanoMaterials (cNM) and program director of the Program on Advanced NanoElectronic Devices within NanoNextNL, a Dutch national consortium for nanotechnology research. At present, he is a member of the board of NanoLabNL, a Dutch national facility providing an open-access infrastructure for R&D in nanotechnology, as well as the advisory board of NanoLab@TU/e.

Stéphane Mangin is Professor at Lorraine University where he leads the research team “Spintronics and Nanomagnetism” at Institut Jean Lamour in Nancy. He is the co-author of more than 250 papers for 11000 citations and an H factor of 51. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, a fellow of the IEEE Magnetic Society, fellow of the Churchill College Cambridge and a senior member of Institut Universitaire de France. Stephane Mangin the scientific director of a unique tool (TUBE-Davm) at Institut Jean Lamour: a 70 meter Tube under Ultra High Vacuum which connects 30 equipments to growth and characterize material down to the atomic scale.

Yuriy Mokrousov is the leader of Topological Nanoelectronics Group at the Institute of Physics of University of Mainz and at Peter Grünberg Institute of Forschungszentrum Jülich. He received his Ph.D. from the RWTH Aachen University in 2006. His main expertise is theoretical solid-state physics and computational methods for magnetic properties, and his main research interests lie in the areas of topological materials, magneto-electric effects, ultrafast and non-equlibrium physics, topological transport properties, antiferromagnets, chiral and orbital magnetism.

Oleg Mukhanov is Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of SEEQC, a quantum computing company. Dr. Mukhanov led the development of the world’s fastest and lowest power superconducting single flux quantum technology from an invention to a product. His research interests include cryogenic superconducting electronic and spintronic devices for memory, logic, and sensor applications. He authored and co-authored over 200 scientific papers, book chapters and over 40 patents. In 2005-2007, Dr. Mukhanov was a president of the US Committee on Superconducting Electronics. Dr. Mukhanov is a Fellow of IEEE and member of American Physical Society. He is the recipient of The IEEE Award for Continuing and Significant Contributions in the Field of Small Scale Applied Superconductivity.

Stuart Parkin is Director at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle, Germany, and an Alexander von Humboldt Professor at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. His research interests include spintronic materials and devices for advanced sensor, memory, and logic applications, oxide thin-film heterostructures, topological metals, exotic superconductors, and cognitive devices. Parkin’s discoveries in spintronics enabled a more than 10,000-fold increase in the storage capacity of magnetic disk drives. For his work that thereby enabled the “big data” world of today, Parkin was awarded the Millennium Technology Prize from the Technology Academy Finland in 2014 and the King Faisal Prize for Science 2021 for his research into three distinct classes of spintronic memories.

Dr. Katrin Schultheiss received her PhD in Physics (Dr. rer. nat.) from the Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany in 2013 on spin-wave transport in two-dimensional microstructures. Since 2015, she works at the Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) in Dresden, Germany. As a member of the Department of Magnetism, her research is focussed on the study of linear and nonlinear magnetization dynamics in micro- and nanostructure as well as in spin textures using Brillouin light scattering microscopy. For her achievements on "nonlinear magnonics as the foundation of spin-based neuromorphic computing" she received the HZDR Forschungspreis in 2022.

Sangeeta Sharma recieved her PhD from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Roorkee, India. She is Professor for theoretical solid state physics are Freie university Berlin and head of the department of theory for dynamics of quantum materials at Max Born institute in Berlin. She is one of the main authors of the electronic structure code Elk (elk.sourceforge.io).

Libor Šmejkal is a head of an independent Max Planck Research Group at the Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany, and is an affiliated researcher at the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Until 2024, he was an independent team leader at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. A native of the Czech Republic, he studied theoretical and experimental physics in Brno and Vienna, and earned his PhD from the Academy of Sciences and Charles University in Prague in 2020. Šmejkal's research focuses on the theory of topological and magnetic quantum matter, aiming for sustainable and ultrascalable nanoelectronics of the future, while collaborating globally on related experiments. His work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the ERC Starting Grant 2024, Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year 2023 , European Magnetism Association Young Scientist Award 2021, or the Siemens Dissertation Award 2020.

Ricardo Sousa received his Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics from the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, for his work on MRAM based on spin dependent tunnel junctions in 2002. His has been working on Magnetic Tunnel Junctions and MRAM devices for over 20 years, leading the MRAM group at Spintec since 2007, and a research director since 2022. He has worked on the development of several MRAM concepts, including thermally assisted switching (European Descartes Prize finalist in 2006), and involved the creation of Spintec startups: Crocus Technology (2004) and Hprobe (2017). More recently, his research focus turned to perpendicular anisotropy MRAM devices written by spin transfer torque and all optical switching methods