Christopher Marrows

Christopher Marrows is Professor of Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Leeds, and was previously a Reader in the same subject, a lecturer, and before that an 1851 research fellow, funded by the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 following his PhD in 1997.

His research programme concerns materials and devices for future information technology, in particular devices based on electron spin - so-called spintronics. This involves a wide-ranging investigation of nanoscale and thin film magnetic artificial structures, prepared largely by sputter deposition. Such materials are useful in the quest for ever more complex spin electronic devices - systems where the spin, as well as charge, of the electron is used in the storage and processing of information. Current areas of interest are chiral magnetism and magnetic skyrmions, spin torques in magnetic nanostructures, artificial frustrated systems, and the quantum spin Hall effect.