Our final-year Ph.D. student Kelly Yunqiu Luo was recently awarded the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship from Cornell University. This award will support Kelly’s salary and research expenses for up to three years. Her proposed research will combine her experience in 2D spintronics with the expertise in magnetic manipulation at Cornell, with the goal of probing and understanding the ultimate limits for the efficiency of magnetic switching. If successful, this will establish the scientific foundations for future ultra-low-power nonvolatile magnetic memories. She will work closely with spin transfer torque pioneer Prof. Dan Ralph, as well as Prof. Kin Fai Mak, Prof. Jie Shan, and Prof. Greg Fuchs.

From the Cornell Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship website: Cornell University launched the Cornell Presidential Postdoctoral Fellows program in 2018 with its first class of fellows—an exemplary group of researchers and scholars. Their projects range from helping to find solutions to the world’s plastic waste problem to the art of media making. The program offers significant independence and resources to top-tier postdoctoral researchers and scholars in all areas of study. This highly competitively award accepts 6-9 fellows from hundreds of applicants each year.  Kelly is the only recipient in the natural sciences this year!

Kelly is a current Ohio State Presidential Graduate Fellow advised by Prof. Roland Kawakami. Her Ph.D. thesis is titled “Investigating Information Transduction between Spintronic, Photonic, and Magnetic States in Two-Dimensional Hybrid Systems". She plans to graduate in August and then begin at Cornell in the fall.

Congratulations Kelly!