Group member

Group Staff

Prof. Yongbing Xu

Professor Yongbing Xu, Chair in Nanotechnology, heads the Spintronics and Nanodevice Laboratory. He is the director of the York University-Nanjing University Joint Center in Spintronics and NanoEngineering, and “Qiangren” professor of Nanjing University and guest professor of several other Chinese universities.

His research has been focussed on the fabrication and characterisation of magnetic nanostructures and nanodevices, and in particular magnetic/semiconductor hybrid materials and more recently 2D materials (e.g., Topological Insulators) for spintronics. He has published more than 200 refereed papers in leading academic journals including Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications, Scientific Reports, Nano Letter, Advanced Materials, ACS Nano, Applied Physics Letters and IEEE journals and given many invited talks/seminars at major international conferences including MRS, WUNSPIN, EMN and Intermag.

School page

Mr Charanjit Panesar

Research Technician and Technical Support Services


Email: charan.panesar@york.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 2384

Fax: +44 (0)1904 32 2335

Research Students

Mr. Hua Ling (Phd candidate)


Mr. Yichuan Wang (Phd Candidate)


Mr. Junlin Wang (Phd Candidate)

I joined the York Spintronics Group in York in Oct 2015. My main research is using the atomistic/micromagnetic model to study the magnetism dynamics. And my research interests are skyrmion dynamics, skyrmion based device and spintronic neuron device.

Mr. Guanqi Li (Phd Candidate)


Mr. Kunpeng Zhang (Phd Candidate)


Mr. Xiangyu Zheng (Phd Candidate)


Mr. Shuchang Feng (Msc Student)


Mr. Wenjia Li


Previous Student and Visiting researcher

Dr. Xianyang Lu

Prof. Haihong Yin

Dr. Yu Yan

Mr. Lingyu Yan

Dr. Shuo Zhao

Mr. Yang Yang

Dr. Daxin Niu

Dr. Guodong Li

Dr. Sameh Hassan

Dr. Johnny Wong

Dr. Iain Will

Dr. Wen Zhang

Dr. An Ding

Dr. Wenqing Liu

Dr. Cong Lu

Prof. Ya Zhai

Dr. Yongxiong Lu

Dr. Jill Claydon

Dr. Serban Lepadatu

Prof. Qingyuan Jin

Prof. Hongru Zhai

Prof. Guanghai Li

Prof. Zhiyong Li

Miss Yulam Wong

Mr. Tony Obado

Mr. Leiwen Chen

Mr. Bingyan Hong

Mr. Alex Valavanis

Dr. Saira Riaz