Richard Evans holds the post of Seagate Lecturer in Computational Magnetism in the Department of Physics at the University of York. He is the lead developer of the “VAMPIRE” code (vampire.york.ac.uk), which is a free and open-source software package used to perform atomistic simulations of magnetic systems. His research focuses on understanding the fundamental magnetic properties of devices for practical applications such as magnetic hyperthermia, magnetoresisitive random access memory (MRAM), heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR), exchange bias and permanent magnets.