Anjan Barman is a senior professor at the S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, India. He received a Ph.D. in physics from Jadavpur University, India, before completing postdoctoral tenures at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, the University of Exeter, UK, the University of Leeds, UK, and the University of California, Santa Cruz. Subsequently, he worked as an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina and at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. His research lies at the crossroads of experimental and numerical studies of nanomagnetism, spintronics, magnonics, ultrafast electrons, spin and phonon dynamics, Brillouin light scattering, and GHz and THz spectroscopy. He is a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore.