Subhankar Bedanta is an Associate Professor at the School of Physics at NISER-Bhubaneswar, India. He has obtained his PhD from University Duisburg-Essen, Germany. He has worked as a postdoctoral associate at (i) University Duisburg-Essen, Germany and (ii) Princeton University, USA. He was a guest scientist at Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany and also worked as a visiting associate professor at Tohoku University, Japan. His research interests are nanomagnetism and spintronics. He focuses on domain imaging, domain wall dynamics in magnetic multilayers, magnetic antidot lattices. His recent work focuses on organic spintronics, antiferromagnetic spintronics, topological insulators, flexible spintronics etc. He has been awarded the “Young Achiever Award 2019”by department of atomic energy, India. He has published about 75 papers and has got about 2500 citations. He is a member of the advisory editorial board of the Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (JMMM).