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Principal of Trevelyan College+44 (0) 191 33 47042
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Biography

Brief Biography

Adekunle Adeyeye joined Durham University in January 2020 as Principal of Trevelyan College and Professor of Physics. He holds a First Class Honours degree in Physics from the University of Ilorin, Nigeria (1990), and completed both his MPhil in Microelectronic Engineering and Semiconductor Physics (1993) and PhD (1996) at the University of Cambridge. In 1996, he was elected a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Following a period as a Senior Research Engineer at the Data Storage Institute in Singapore (1997), he returned to Cambridge as a Fellow at the Nanoscale Science Laboratory. He later joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS) as an Assistant Professor in 2000, rising to Associate Professor with tenure in 2006 and Full Professor in 2012. He also served as the founding Master of Ridge View Residential College at NUS (2014-2019).

Professor Adeyeye’s research centres on the fundamental physics of nanomagnets and their application in advanced non‑volatile memory technologies. He is internationally recognised for his pioneering contributions to the field of nanomagnetism and has received numerous accolades, including being named among the world’s top 100 young innovators by the MIT Technology Review (TR100). In 2013, he was appointed a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Magnetics Society.

He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Institute of Physics, and the Institute of Nanotechnology, and is also a Royal Society Wolfson Fellow.

Research interests

  • Nanotechnology & Spintronics, Magnonics and Spin Wave Devices, Magnetic Biosensors
  • Advanced Nanofabrication Techniques, Functional Nanomaterials for Spintronic Applications

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