Jagadeesh Moodera
Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Poland
Biography
Dr. Jagadeesh S. Moodera received his Ph.D in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology (Madras). He joined MIT in 1981 as a research staff at the Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory (FBML), where he currently leads the “Thin Film Magnetism, Superconductivity and Nanospintronics” group. He is a visiting professor at Technological Univ. of Eindhoven (The Netherlands), an adjunct professor at Suffolk University, Distinguished Foreign Scientist at National Physical Laboratory (India) and a Distinguished Professor at IIT (Chennai, India). Dr. Moodera is a Fellow of American Physical Society and has received several national and international awards including Oliver Buckley Prize in Condensed Matter Physics from APS (2009).
Research Interest
Experimental condensed matter physics - fundamental and applied research that includes nanospintronics, spin polarized transport and tunneling, thin film magnetism, superconductivity and topological insulators.
