Kirk H. Bevan received his doctorate in electrical engineering at Purdue University in July 2008. From 2008 to early 2011 he was a joint post-doctoral fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and McGill University. Since 2011 he has been on the faculty of engineering at McGill University in materials engineering. His research is focused on enabling the crossover of novel physical phenomena into real world engineering applications with an emphasis on electronic device materials design.