Bart M. Ludbrook received the M.Sc. degree in physics from the Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, in 2009, and the Ph.D. dgeree in physics from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, in 2015. His research interests include the growth of novel magnetic material thin films by magnetron sputtering, pulsed laser deposition, molecular beam epitaxy, characterizing novel materials with transport and magnetic measurements at cryogenic temperatures, clean-rooms using photolithography to pattern magnetic materials into electronic devices, angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy to explore the physics of atoms on atomically clean surfaces, high temperature superconductors, fiber optic sensing in extreme environments, focusing on the requirements of quench protection in fusion energy magnets.