Satoru Emori named assistant professor of physics in College of Science
Satoru Emori has been appointed as an assistant professor with the Department of Physics, part of the College of Science.
Before arriving at Virginia Tech, Emori was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University. His research focuses on “spintronics” and magnetic thin films, or more specifically, nanometer-thick materials with robust spin-driven physics. Many of these phenomena are considered essential for next-generation computing and communications technologies.
His Spin-Magnetic Lab at Virginia Tech specializes in the development of new thin-film magnetic materials, as well as studying the spin transport and dynamics of tabletop and synchrotron techniques.
Emori earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of California Irvine, and a doctoral degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both in materials science and engineering.
Emori is one of 22 tenured and tenure-track faculty members to join the College of Science this year.
Written by Mari Botha, of Ashburn, Virginia, a junior double majoring in Economics and English.