David Collingwood Jiles

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(born 28 September 1953) is the Anson Marston Distinguished Professor of Engineering and holder of the Palmer Endowed Department Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering at

Iowa State University Iowa State University of Science and Technology (Iowa State University, Iowa State, or ISU) is a Public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Ames, Iowa, United States. Founded in 1858 as the Iowa Agricult ...

Career

Born in London, Jiles received a BSc from the

University of Exeter The University of Exeter is a research university in the West Country of England, with its main campus in Exeter, Devon. Its predecessor institutions, St Luke's College, Exeter School of Science, Exeter School of Art, and the Camborne School of ...

(1975), followed by a MSc from the

University of Birmingham The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a Public university, public research university in Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Queen's College, Birmingham (founded in 1825 as ...

(1976), a PhD from the

University of Hull The University of Hull is a public research university in Kingston upon Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1927 as University College Hull. The main university campus is located in Hull and is home to the Hu ...

(1979), and a DSc from the University of Birmingham (1990). Jiles was formerly Professor of Magnetics at

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and the director of the Wolfson Centre for Magnetics there from 2005 to 2010. Prior to that, he had been at Iowa State as Anson Marston Distinguished Professor of Engineering. Jiles was named a Jefferson Fellow at the

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in January 2016, a post that is set to begin in August and last for one year.

Honors

He has been the editor-in-chief of ''

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics ''IEEE Transactions on Magnetics'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers the basic physics of magnetism, magnetic materials, applied magnetics, magnetic devices, and magnetic data storage. The editor-in-chief is Amr Adly ( Cai ...

'' since 2005. He is a

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, the

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, the

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, the

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, the Institute of Materials, the

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, the Magnetics Society, and the

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. He was elected a

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in 2016.

Personal

He raised money for

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's Story County branch with a blindfolded chess tournament in 2013.

Publications

Books

*''Introduction to Magnetism and Magnetic Materials,'' London and New York: Chapman and Hall Publishers,. (in 535 libraries according to WorldCat) WorldCat
/ref> 1st edition 1991. 2nd edition 1998. **Review, ''Choice'', v29 n05 *''Introduction to the Electronic Properties of Materials,'' London and New York: Chapman and Hall Publishers,. First edition 1994. Second edition 2001. *''Introduction to the Principles of Materials Evaluation'', Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, 2007. WorldCat item record
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Faculty profile
at Iowa State {{DEFAULTSORT:Jiles, David Living people Iowa State University faculty British expatriate academics in the United States British electronics engineers Alumni of the University of Exeter Alumni of the University of Birmingham Alumni of the University of Hull Academics of Cardiff University Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Fellows of the Institute of Physics Fellows of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications Fellows of the American Physical Society Fellows of the IEEE Fellows of the Institution of Electrical Engineers 1953 births Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales

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