Dr Litvinov

Editor-in-Chief: Dr Dmitri Litvinov

Dr Dmitri Litvinov holds a joint appointment as an Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Houston which he joined in the fall of 2003 after a successful career at Seagate Technology where he led the team of researchers to implement so-called perpendicular recording. Perpendicular magnetic recording is a nanomagnetic data storage technology that was widely adopted by the $23B data storage industry as the next generation technology. Dr Litvinov is an inventor/co-inventor on 25 utility patents that he filed while with Seagate Technology. For his contributions to Seagate, Dr Litvinov was presented with 30 Technological Achievement Awards and was delegated by Seagate Technology to present at the 2001 Lake Arrowhead Conference – a meeting of top 40 magnetics industry leaders.

Dr Litvinov serves as the director of the Center for Nanomagnetic Systems at the University of Houston, an extensive research and training program encompassing nanomagnetic devices and materials for information storage and processing technologies, clinical diagnostics, high throughput drug screening, magnetic field sensor applications. The nanomagnetics research is supported by the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Health, Office of Naval Research, Alliance for Nanohealth, Information Storage Industry Consortium, and Texas Center for Superconductivity. Dr Litvinov has more than 70 publications in the peer-review journals, he has co-authored a textbook on magnetic recording and several review articles on the subject. Dr Litvinov has given many invited presentations and numerous contributed presentations at national and international conferences.  

Dr Litvinov serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology. Dr Litvinov co-founded two highly successful IEEE conferences – North American Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Conference and Conference on Nanoscale Devices and System Integration. He has served as a guest editor in Nanotechnology and in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics and a reviewer for many major scientific and engineering journals. Dr Litvinov is a Senior IEEE Member, Member of the Materials Research Society and of the Electrochemical Society. He also serves as an Associate Member of Information Storage Industry Consortium.