Christopher Leighton

Professor, Materials Science (2011 – present); Director of Undergraduate Studies in Materials Science (2010 – present); Graduate Faculty in Physics (2004 – present); McKnight Presidential fellow (2007-2010).

General Chair, MMM (Magnetism and Magnetic Materials) conference (Nov 2014); Editor, MMM conference, Scottsdale AZ (2011); Member, MMM Program Committee, Scottsdale AZ conference (2011); Member, IEEE Magnetics Letters Review Board (2011 – present); Secretary, Neutron Scattering Society of America (Jan 2011 to present); Member, MMM Program Committee, Atlanta conference (Aug 2010); Joint MMM/Intermag conference Program Chair for 2010 meeting, Washington DC (Jan 2010); Organizer, Nanomagnetism Focus Sessions, UMN Nanotechnology Workshop (Nov 2009); Co-organizer of the 2009 Telluride Science Research Center workshop on Competing Interactions and Colossal Responses in Transition Metal Oxides (Aug 2009); Organizer, Complex Oxide Tutorial, APS March Meeting (March 2009); Member, Intermag conference Program Committee, Sacramento conference (May 2009); Member, Review and Advisory Committee, Institute for Rock Magnetism, UMN (2009-present); Member, MMM conference Advisory Committee (2008-2014); Instructor, Los Alamos National Lab Neutron Summer School (July 2008); Member, MMM Program Committee, Austin conference (Nov 2008); Member, MMM Program Committee, Tampa conference (Aug 2007); Member, Proposal Review Committee of the Argonne National Lab Center for NanoMaterials (2007 – present); Member, Executive Committee, MN chapter of the AVS (2006 – present); Faculty mentor of the MN student chapter of the Material Advantage (2006 – 2010); Member, MMM Program Committee, Baltimore conference (Aug 2006); Organizer, APS March Meeting Focus Topic (10 sessions) on “Complex Multi-functional Oxides” (March 2006); Member, Proposal Review Committee of the Oak Ridge National Lab Center for Nanophase Materials Science (2006 – 2011); Abstract sorter, APS March Meeting (March 2006); Member, Materials Program Advisory Committee of the Los Alamos National Lab Neutron Science Center (2006 – present); Member, MMM Program Committee, San Jose conference (Nov 2005); Member, executive committee, APS Topical Group on Magnetism (GMAG) (2005 – 2008). Faculty mentor of the MN student chapter of the Materials Research Society (MRS) (2004 – 2008);

Interplay between magnetism and electronic transport in novel magnetic materials, particularly oxides and highly polarized ferromagnets. Magnetic heterostructures and interface magnetism. Spin Transport. Nanostructured magnetic materials. Thin film growth, structural characterization, magnetic and magnetotransport measurements, and neutron scattering.