Prof. Karine Chesnel is a professor in the department of Physics and Astronomy at Brigham Young University (BYU), in Utah, USA. She graduated with a double BS in Physics and in Chemistry from the Ecole Normale Superieure of Lyon, France, and a PhD in Material Sciences from University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France in 2002. She then completed a Postdoc at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in California, USA, and a visiting year at the High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Toulouse, France. In 2008, she joined the faculty at the Physics department at BYU. In this position, she has mentored over a hundred undergraduate and graduate students in research projects. Her research interests are focusing on nanomagnetism in thin films and nanoparticles, including magnetic domain memory, superparamagnetism, dynamics of magnetic fluctuations. She carries out her investigations using x-ray synchrotron spectroscopy techniques, such as resonant magnetic scattering, dichroic ptychography, and photon correlation spectroscopy. She is serving on the editorial board of the IEEE Magnetics Letters journal, Nanomaterials and other journals.