Robert Stamps is Professor and Head of the Department Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manitoba. He has published over 250 papers on a range of topics in condensed matter physics including linear and nonlinear dynamics of magnetic and ferroelectric nanostructures, frustrated spin systems and glasses, inelastic light scattering and ferromagnetic resonance, spin electronics, and spin dynamics in constrained geometries. Before joining the University of Manitoba, he led the Materials and Condensed Matter Physics Group at the University of Glasgow. Dr Stamps was a Humbolt Fellow at RWTH Aachen, an Australian Professorial Fellow and Winthrop Professor at the University of Western Australia, and has held several visiting fellowships in France and Italy. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the American Physical Society and the Institute of Physics. He was the 2004 IOP/IEEE Wohlfarth Lecturer, and an IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer in 2008.