Kannan M. Krishnan

Kannan M. Krishnan is an Indian-American academic, author and entrepreneur. He is a professor of materials science and engineering, an adjunct professor of physics, and an Associate Faculty of the South Asia Centre, at the University of Washington, Seattle (UW).

Krishnan has contributed to the field of biomedical nanomagnetics, especially the applications of tailored magnetic biomaterials in medicine, emphasizing imaging, and therapy, and including their commercialization and clinical translations. He was also the first to develop a patented material architecture for semiconductor-magnetic device integration. He also identified a new class of materials ––dilute magnetic dielectrics –– that are both ferromagnetic and insulating, and showed that the ferromagnetism in such materials is defect-mediated. He is also a well-recognized teacher, writing two textbooks, ''Fundamentals and Applications of Magnetic Materials'' (2016), and ''Principles of Materials Characterization and Metrology'' (2021), both published by Oxford University Press.

Krishnan is known in multiple disciplines for his scholarship, research, teaching, and mentoring. His awards include the TMS Weertman Educator Award (2024), Alexander von Humboldt Forschungspreis (2016), the TMS Distinguished Engineer/Scientist (2015), IEEE Fink Prize (2012), IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer (2009), Fulbright Specialist (2010), Guggenheim (2004) and Rockefeller (2008) Fellowships, the Burton Medal (MSA,1992), and the College of Engineering Outstanding Educator (UW, 2004).

Krishnan is an elected member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences, and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, the Institute of Physics (London), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He has served on the editorial boards of the ''Journal of Magnetism & Magnetic Materials'', ''Journal of Materials Science'', ''Acta Materialia'', ''Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics'', ''IEEE Magnetics Letters and Medical Physics''. In 2010, along with two graduate students, he started a company, LodeSpin Labs, to develop tailored magnetic carriers for a range of biomedical applications. Provided by Wikipedia