Prof. Anjan Barman obtained his Ph.D. from the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (Jadavpur University), Kolkata, India in 1999. He worked as Postdoctoral Fellow in Technion, Israel, University of Exeter and University of Leeds, UK and University of California Santa Cruz, USA. Subsequently, he worked as Assistant Professor in University of South Carolina Columbia, USA and Indian Institute of Technology Delhi between 2006 and 2009 before joining the S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India in 2009, where he is a Senior Professor now. Prof. Barman leads the Spintronics and Spin Dynamics Research Group here with world class laboratories with indigenously built experimental setups namely time-resolved MOKE microscope, broadband and spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance, conventional and microfocused Brillouin light scattering, THz time-domain spectrometer, to name a few. He has guided/graduated 25 PhD students and more than 50 Masters/Bachelor students. He has published nearly 200 research papers in international journals and books and a monograph titled ‘Spin Dynamics and Damping in Ferromagnetic Thin Films and Nanostructures’ from Springer. He is an Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports and Reviewer of more than 30 international journals. He also reviews research grant proposals from various countries in the world. He is a recipient of Material Research Society of India Medal and an elected Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences Bangalore.