Materials Science Division

Education

• Aug 1982 M.Sc. Engineering Physics, Uppsala University, Sweden
• May 1985 M.S. Physics, Case Western Reserve University
• May 1985 Ph.D. Physics, Case Western Reserve University

Biography

After receiving his Ph.D. in Physics (condensed matter theory), Heinonen worked as a post-doc with Walter Kohn at the University of California, Santa Barbara from 1985 to 1987, and also as a post-doc with Philip Taylor at Case Western Reserve University 1987 – 1989. In 1989 he joined the faculty at the Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, where he remained for nine years, after which he went to Seagate Technology in Minneapolis, MN. He joined Argonne in July of 2010. He has been active in the magnetic societies of IEEE and APS and served in various capacities on program committees for the Magnetism and Magnetic Materials and Intermag conferences and is presently a member of the Executive Committee of the Topical Group on Magnetism and its Applications (GMAG) of the American Physical Society. He has published over 60 articles, co-authored to books and holds twelve US Patents. His research interests include magnetization structures and dynamics in magnetic nanostructures, transport in oxide nanostructures, and electronic structure.