Jacob Gayles started his undergraduate research on electrical transport in DNA molecules and computational studies of semiconductors. As an undergraduate, he was a McNair scholar and received the John W. Nagle Outstanding Senior Award from California State University Northridge. He published three papers as one of the first undergraduate PREM fellows at the W.M. Keck Computational Materials Theory Center. He spent his undergraduate summers at Princeton University as an NSF REU researcher. During his Ph.D. studies, he was awarded the IGERT and LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate fellowships. He spent the summer of 2012 at the Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences Czech Republic, and the summer of 2013 at Forschungszentrum Julich in Germany. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Texas A&M University in 2016. During his doctoral studies, he moved to the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz to research computational and theoretical condensed matter physics for chiral magnetic systems and spin-orbit torques. During his Post-Doctoral fellowship, he studied topological magnetic systems at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, Germany. While at the Max Planck Institute, he led the Skyrmionics working group. He is at the forefront of research in spin and topological phenomena with national and international invited talks and organizing conferences/workshops and publications in the field's top journals. Currently, he is an Assistant Physics Professor and the Quantum Chiraltronics Group leader at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. Currently, Professor Gayles is a Max Planck Partner Group Leader with funding from the German Max Planck Institute and Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator.