Robert D. McMichael (Assoc)

Robert (Bob) McMichael is a research associate in the Nanoscale Device Characterization Division. He received a B.S. in Engineering-Physics from Pacific Lutheran University and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Physics from the Ohio State University. He came to NIST on an NRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in 1990, served on the research staff of the Metallurgy Division in the Materials Science and Engineering Lab, and then joined the CNST in 2007. Bob's research at NIST has touched on a broad spectrum of phenomena in magnetic thin films and nanomaterials but remains centered on micromagnetics and magnetization dynamics. He has over 160 peer-reviewed publications. In 2004, Bob was selected as an IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer, and in 2009, he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Bob received NIST's Samuel Wesley Stratton Award and Bronze Medal Award, the Silver Medal Award from the US Department of Commerce, and retired from NIST in April 2024.