Prof. Amir Capua heads the Spintronics Lab at the Institute of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Science.

Amir received his B.Sc. (2006), and M.Sc. and Ph.D. (2013) from the Electrical Engineering Department at the Technion, Israel. During this time Amir also worked at the Intel Design Center, Haifa, Israel. His Ph.D was in the field of semiconductor laser physics and quantum optics. Following his Ph.D, Amir joined the IBM Almaden Research Labs in California where he was a research staff member at the Spintronics research group managed by Prof. Stuart Parkin. In 2016 he joined the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics, Germany.

In 2017 Amir joined the Hebrew University where his team explores spin transport phenomena in atomically engineered solid state devices for novel sensing, processing, and memory applications.