Dr. Charudatta Phatak is a Group leader of the Functional Nanoscale Heterostructures group in the Materials Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory. He is also an adjunct faculty in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University. He received his Ph.D from Carnegie Mellon University in Materials Science and Engineering in 2009. His expertise is on magnetic domain imaging using in-situ Lorentz transmission electron microscopy along with 3D tomographic reconstructions of scalar and vector fields. His research interests are focused on exploring magnetic domain behavior and emergent topological excitations in magnetic nanostructures, understanding effects of curvature on magnetic domains, and exploring new materials and phenomena for neuromorphic computing.