Robert D. McMichael (M'92) received the B.S. degree in engineering-physics from Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA, in 1985 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from The Ohio State University, Columbus, in 1990.
In 1990, he was awarded a National Research Council postdoctoral associateship at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and he has continued in the Magnetic Materials Group of the Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory of NIST. His research interests have touched on a diverse set of topics, including: nonlinear magnetization dynamics, ferromagnetic resonance, magnetic refrigeration, hysteresis modeling, giant magnetoresistance, exchange bias, computational micromagnetics, and magnetization dynamics. He currently serves as leader of the Nanomagnetodyamics project in NIST's Metallurgy Division.
Dr. McMichael serves on the editorial board of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MAGNETICS and on the advisory committee for the Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM) conference. He created the logos for several recent MMM conferences.