Stuart Wolf is a Professor of Materials Science, Engineering and Physics at the University of Virginia, and Directorof the Center for Spins in Quantum Electronic Science and Technology (SpinQuEST). He spent more than 20 years at the Naval Research Laboratory both as a scientist and manager with research interests in superconductivity and magnetism. At the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) he managed a large portfolio of Material Physics based programs in Spintronics and Quantum Information Science and Technology.