Dr. Jagadeesh S. Moodera, Senior Research Scientist, Physics Department
Group Leader - Superconductivity, Quantum Transport and Nanospintronics 
Plasma Science and Fusion Center/Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, MIT
PhD in Condensed Matter Physics (IIT, Madras)

Research interests (experimental):

• Manipulating electron spin in solids: spin tunneling, spin filtering, interfacial science and exchange coupling including in van der Waals systems

• Molecular spintronics: Molecule-surface interaction, towards molecular-spin memory

• Ferromagnet/superconductor exchange coupling, triplet pairing, nonreciprocal current transport and memory towards superconducting spintronics

• Quantum transport in topological insulators (TI) and heterostructures: atomic scale interface phenomena; interface chemical/physical/magnetic science at national labs; quantum transport under extreme conditions – mK, high magnetic fields. Novel TI systems.

• Topological superconductors and Majorana studies in unconventional metallic superconductors: interactions and entanglements among Majorana quantum particles towards topological qubits.

Awards and Honors: 2009 Oliver Buckley Prize from APS, American NSF Competitiveness and Innovation Fellow (2008-2010).  Fellow of APS (2000) and Fellow of AAAS (2024). IBM and TDK Research Awards (1995-1998). Distinguished Alumnus Award (IIT, Madras). Distinguished scientist at Fujitsu Company, Japan. Visiting professor, Applied Physics Dept, Eindhoven Tech. U. (The Netherlands). Distinguished Visiting Professor/Scientist, Institute for Quantum Computing, U. of Waterloo, Canada. Distinguished Institute Professor, Indian Inst. of Tech., Madras. Distinguished Foreign Scientist, National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi. Adjunct Professor (Mangalore Univ., National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India). Elected chairman of the Gordon Research Conf. on Magnetic Nanostructures (2006). 

Credited with the discovery of tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) at room temperature in magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs), which further led to extensive spintronics research - computer storage and sensing technology.  MTJs have transformed the computer storage industry, and potentially a similar revolution is expected in nonvolatile memory and sensor technology including in-memory computing as in neuromorphic computing, and artificial intelligence.