Alumni
Within the framework of the IMPRS-STNS already 10 PhD-students from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) and the Max-Planck-Institute of Microstructure physics (MPI) received their doctoral degree.
Congratulations to
2023

Dr.-Ing. André Farinha
MPI (NISE department)André defended his thesis successfully in June 2023.
Title: “Emergent Magnetic Effects in Spintronic Devices with 3D Chiral Geometries”

Dr. rer. nat. Mohamed Amine Wahada
MPI (NISE department)Amine defended his thesis successfully in June 2023.
Title: "Ultrafast spin transport through oxide and nitride barriers measured by inverse Spin Hall effect"
2022

Dr. rer. nat. Peng Wang
MPI (NISE department)Peng defended his thesis successfully in November 2022.
Title: "Novel spin Hall effect materials and artificially engineered magnetic thin film heterostructures for energy-efficient spintronic memories"
2021

Dr. rer. nat. Alexander Schäffer
MLU (Prof. Jamal Berakdar)Alexander defended his thesis successfully in December 2021.
Title: “Control of topologically non-trivial spin
excitations”

Dr.-Ing. Kai-Uwe Demasius
MPI (NISE department)Kai-Uwe defended his thesis successfully in October 2021.
Title: “Highly Energy Efficient
Neuromorphic Computing Based on
Memcapacitive Devices”

Dr. rer. nat. Jue Huang
MPI (NISE department)Jue defended her thesis successfully in June 2021.
Title: “Epitaxial growth and charge-to-spin
conversion studies of Bi2Te3
topological
insulator”

Dr. rer. nat. Tianping Ma
MPI (NISE department)Tianping defended his thesis successfully in March 2021.
Title: “Magnetic antiskyrmions in tetragonal
Heusler materials with D-2d
structure”

Dr. rer. nat. Abhay Kant Srivastava
MPI (NISE department)Abhay Kant defended his thesis successfully in January 2021.
Title: “Investigations of Anti-Skyrmions and Néel Skyrmions using Lorentz Transmission Electron
Microscopy”
2020

Dr. rer. nat. Shuo-Ying Yang
MPI (NISE department)Shuoying defended her thesis successfully in October 2020.
Title: “In search of extraordinary Hall effects in
topological semimetals”

Dr. rer. nat. Christoph Hauser
MLU (Prof. Georg Schmidt)Christoph defended his thesis successfully in June 2020.
Title: “Ferromagnetische Resonanz und
Spinpumpen in Oxiden”

Dr. rer. nat. Börge Göbel
MLU (Prof. Ingrid Mertig)Börge defended his thesis successfully in January 2020.
Title: “Emergent electrodynamics in
non-collinear spin textures”
2019

Dr. rer. nat. Robin Bläsing
MPI (NISE department)Robin defended his thesis successfully in December 2019.
Title: “Highly Efficient Domain Wall Motion in Ferrimagnetic Bi-layer Systems at the Angular Momentum Compensation Temperature”

Dr. rer. nat. Annika Johansson
MLU (Prof. Ingrid Mertig)Annika defended her thesis successfully in April 2019.
Title: “Spin-orbit driven transport:
Edelstein effect and chiral anomaly”