Professor Geoffrey Beach’s research focuses on spin dynamics and “spin-electronics”—the study of new materials whose magnetic properties could be changed electrically—in nanoscale magnetic materials and devices. Developing ways to store information more densely and access it more quickly requires understanding the magnetization configurations in nanoscale structures and how they evolve. A major thrust of Professor Beach’s research aims to harness the spin of the electron in magnetic materials to realize new approaches to spin-based storage and computation. Studying these processes requires the development of advanced instrumentation capable of probing magnetization dynamics at the shortest timescales and the smallest length scales. His research group develops new optical and electrical approaches to push detection limits, enabling development of new materials and structures to meet the information storage and processing demands of the future.