Alina M. Deac obtained the undergraduate degree in Physics from Babes-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca, Romania) in 2000, and the Master’s and Ph.D. degrees from Joseph Fourier University (Grenoble, France) in 2001 and 2005, respectively. The focus of her doctoral work was spin-momentum transfer-induced phenomena, which she carried out at SPINTEC. She continued her research in the same field as a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba (Japan), a Marie Curie Fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado (USA), at Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany), and as an Ambizione Fellow at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland). Since October 2011, she is leader of the Spintronics Group at Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf.