Johan Åkerman

University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Biography

Prof. Johan Åkerman received his Ph.D. in Materials Physics from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 1998. After a post-doc at University of California, San Diego, he joined Motorola, for four years, to be responsible for MRAM reliability. The MRAM technology he helped to launch remains the most commercially successfully MRAM to date. In 2005, he returned to Sweden to start his own research group at the Department of Materials and Nanophysics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. In 2008 he was recruited as Full Professor to the Physics Department at University of Gothenburg, while remaining a Guest Professor at KTH. Since 2023, he is also a Professor – University Research Lead at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. Prof. Åkerman has been working with spintronic technology for the last 25 years and has authored some 350 scientific papers with over 18 000 citations. He holds about 20 patents and is the founder of tree start-up companies, NanOsc AB, commercializing spintronic devices, NanOsc Instruments AB, designing and manufacturing spectrometers for ferromagnetic resonance measurements at cryogenic and room temperatures, and Spinwave Computing AB, designing and developing IP around spin and acoustic wave based Ising Machines. His main projects are related to spin torque and spin Hall nano-oscillators, with particular focus on mutual synchronization, magnetodynamical solitons, and oscillator networks for neuromorphic computing.