Professor of Condensed Matter Physics
University of Leeds, U.K.
Christopher Marrows is Professor of Condensed Matter Physics, and was previously a Reader in the same subject, a lecturer, and before that an 1851 research fellow, funded by the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851.
His research programme concerns materials and devices for future information technology, in particular devices based on electron spin – so-called spintronics. This involves a wide ranging investigation of nanoscale and thin film magnetic artificial structures, prepared largely by sputter deposition. Such materials are useful in the quest for ever more complex spin electronic devices – systems where the spin, as well as charge, of the electron is used in the storage and processing of information. Current areas of interest are chiral magnetism and magnetic skyrmions, spin torques in magnetic nanostrutures, artificial frustrated systems, and magnetostructural phase transitions.