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Jairo Sinova (born 1972) is a Spanish-American theoretical condensed matter physicist known for his works on the field of spintronics and in particular for his prediction of the intrinsic spin Hall effect. Since 2014, he is an Alexander von Humboldt Professor in the University of Mainz and the director of the Spin Phenomena Interdisciplinary Center (SPICE).

Jairo Sinova studied physics at Ohio University (BS in 1994) and Indiana University (MS in 1995). He obtained his doctorate supervised by Steven Girvin from Indiana University in 1999. He then held postdoctoral positions at the University of Tennessee and Texas A&M University. He became an assistant professor at Texas A&M in 2003, and a full professor in 2010. He has been a Fellow of the American Physical Society since 2011. In 2014 he moved to University of Mainz in Germany for an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship. He also received a ERC Synergy Grant in 2014.

Highlights:
 * Predicted intrinsic spin Hall effect (2004)
 * Part of one of the teams that discovered the Spin Hall effect.
 * Founded the field antiferromagnetic spintronics. (REF?)