Tomas Jungwirth is a Head of the Department of Spintronics and Nanoelectronics at the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and a Professor at the School of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Nottingham. He received his PhD from the Charles University in Prague for his work on 2D quantum Hall systems, performed partly at Indiana University in the U.S. As a postdoc at the University of Texas he started working in the field of spintronics. He contribited to the discovery of the Berry-phase origin of the anomalous Hall effect in ferromagnets and of the spin Hall effect in non-magnetic spin-orbit coupled systems. With collaborators, he initiated the field of antiferromagnetic spintronics from theory and experiments to proof-of-concept device demonstrations. Recently, he participated in the discovery of altermagnetism from theory to experimental verification.