Stuart Parkin
The University of Oxford | 2018-Present
Stuart Parkin is Director of the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle/Salle, Germany and Professor at the Institute of Physics of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. He is also an IBM Fellow (IBM’s highest technical honor) and a Consulting Professor in the Department of Applied Physics at Stanford University. Parkin’s research interest lies in the field of material sciences where he currently focusses on applied spintronics. Parkin is known for his work on the giant magneto-resistance effect, for which he was awarded the American Physical Society’s James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials and the Hewlett-Packard Europhysics Prize together with Peter Grünberg and Albert Fert. His achievements have been recognized with a lot of international awards as well as several guest professorships. Parkin is Honorary Professor at the University College London and a Fellow at several Academies of Sciences, including the Royal Society London and National Academy of Sciences, USA.
Discipline
Cognitive NeuroscienceArea of Research
Neuroplasticity and Learning
ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4702-6139Google Scholar
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