Aurelien Manchon is a Professor of Physics in the Centre Interdisplinaire de Nanoscience de Marseille (CINaM) at Aix-Marseille University (AMU) since December 2019. Before that, he was an Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), in Saudi Arabia. He joined KAUST in 2009 after a postdoctoral fellowship at University of Missouri-Columbia and University of Arizona-Tuscon. He graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France in 2004 and earned his PhD in Physics in 2007 from University Joseph Fourier and CEA/SPINTEC laboratory in France. Manchon’s research focuses on spintronics, which aims at utilizing the quantum spin degree of freedom of the carrier to generate disruptive solutions for electronics. His research interest spans from spin-orbit coupled transport to chiral magnetism, antiferromagnets and ultrafast spin dynamics. Manchon has engaged in a number of collaborations with both experimentalists and theorists in his field around the world, including researchers at National University of Singapore, J. Gutenberg University at Mainz, Cornel University, University of Minnesota, CEA/CNRS Grenoble in France etc. He has authored over 120 publications (Scopus h-index=32, #citations>5500) in esteemed journals including Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Physics, Nature Communications, Review of Modern Physics, Physical Review Letters, Nano Letters, and Physical Review B.