Stuart Parkin IBM Fellow, IBM Almaden Research Center

Dr. Stuart Parkin is an IBM Fellow and Manager of the Magnetoelectronics group at the IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California and a consulting professor in the Department of Applied Physics at Stanford University. He is also director of the IBM–Stanford Spintronic Science and Applications Center, which was formed in 2004.
He received his BA and PhD degrees from the University of Cambridge and joined IBM as a postdoctoral fellow in 1982, becoming a permanent member of the staff the following year. In 1999 he was named an IBM Fellow, IBM’s highest technical honor. Parkin’s research interests have included organic superconductors, high-temperature superconductors, and, for almost the past two decades, magnetic thin film structures and spintronic materials and devices for advanced sensor, memory, and logic applications.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the American Physical Society, the Materials Research Society, the Institute of Physics (London), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and in April, 2008 was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Parkin is the recipient of numerous honors, including: Johannes Gutenberg Researcher Award of 2009, 2008 IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Magnetics Society (2008), Wohlfarth Lecturer (2006), Nakamura Lecturer (2005), Humboldt Research Award (2004), 1999-2000 American Institute of Physics Prize for Industrial Applications of Physics, European Physical Society’s Hewlett-Packard Europhysics Prize (1997), American Physical Society’s International New Materials Prize (1994), MRS Outstanding Young Investigator Award (1991) and Charles Vernon Boys Prize from the Institute of Physics, London (1991).
In 2001, he was named R&D Magazine’s first Innovator of the Year and in October 2007 was awarded the Economist Magazine’s “No Boundaries” Award for Innovation. In 2007 Parkin was named a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore, a Visiting Chair Professor at the National Taiwan University, an Honorary Visiting Professor at University College London, The United Kingdom, and a Distinguished Research Chair Professor, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Douliou, Taiwan. Parkin has Honorary Doctorates from the University of Aachen, Germany and the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. Parkin has authored ~360 papers and has ~70 issued patents.