Evgeny Tsymbal is a George Holmes University Distinguished Professor at Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), and Director of the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). He also served as Director of the Center for NanoFerroic Devices (CNFD) sponsored jointly by Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Prior to his appointment at UNL, he was a senior research scientist at University of Oxford, UK, a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Research Center-Jülich, Germany, and a research scientist at the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow. Evgeny Tsymbal’s research is focused on predictive modelling of advanced functional materials relevant to nanoelectronics and spintronics. He is co-author of nearly 300 papers, review articles and book chapters and is a co-editor of three-volume Spintronics Handbook: Spin Transport and Magnetism published in 2019. Evgeny Tsymbal is a fellow of the American Physical Society, a fellow of the Institute of Physics, and a recipient of the UNL’s Outstanding Research and Creative Activity (ORCA) Award.