Alumni
Within the framework of the IMPRS, PhD students from both Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) and the Max-Planck-Institute of Microstructure Physics (MPI) have successfully completed their doctoral studies.
Congratulations to
2024
![Pranava Keerthi Sivakumar](/762070/original-1717163570.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjo3NjIwNzB9--de84049e415d08d0357087549b3eb453dfe3c535)
Pranava Keerthi Sivakumar
MPI (NISE department)Pranava defended his thesis successfully in May 2024.
Title: "Physics of Josephson diodes formed from 1T-transition metal dichalcogenides"
![Dr. rer. nat. Berthold Rimmler](/726640/original-1707129012.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjo3MjY2NDB9--9b380c2ce9e1de750de57b0ebfd83a1df211a454)
Dr. rer. nat. Berthold Rimmler
MPI (NISE department)Berthold defended his thesis successfully in January 2024.
Title: “Non-collinear magnetism, hidden symmetry lowering and magneto-transport effects in antiperovskite nitrides”
2023
![Dr. rer. nat. Björn Niedzielski](/710786/original-1701333020.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjo3MTA3ODZ9--1a4555a92bdfb116e3ccedc2601f4a955098b218)
Dr. rer. nat. Björn Niedzielski
MLU (Prof. Jamal Berakdar)Björn defended his thesis successfully in November 2023.
Title: "Vortex states in superconducing/ferromagnetic hybrid systems"
![Dr.-Ing. André Farinha](/690684/original-1707129012.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjo2OTA2ODR9--8e816275d574d005da3454dbfb16fce636266899)
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](/689123/original-1687428255.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjo2ODkxMjN9--65cd91eb2e40f04a130be82124e27ea08951f20b)
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](/622600/original-1669027997.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjo2MjI2MDB9--69cb1cbe5a0169acc296660d5214602169d3087a)
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](/319962/original-1646137712.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjozMTk5NjJ9--4c556930b8fd8bba78fe302c0af56c1f6a43594c)
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](/300500/original-1646212045.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjozMDA1MDB9--75349cb5a13b2fbbcc0c1c94028958391caec7d8)
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](/300513/original-1646212034.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjozMDA1MTN9--241d0442c1565b7e67acc844e3ae76b2a787194e)
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](/300529/original-1646137711.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjozMDA1Mjl9--1a3ab285084145b312d0c88cfc9c5ff073147690)
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](/300568/original-1646137711.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjozMDA1Njh9--885b12d049107cbc28607bac842d3f71d047ed91)
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](/300591/original-1646212055.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjozMDA1OTF9--7ed4bb932c9df5df87d02bdbd0f89f4489bdb69a)
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](/333049/original-1646137711.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjozMzMwNDl9--6b6b43c62e599610ab1c6eaad55895ff2be3d3fd)
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](/300676/original-1646137711.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjozMDA2NzZ9--68dc6fc70cb28bb383a3a01a0a7e7288d44251a5)
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](/300487/original-1646137711.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjozMDA0ODd9--0e8a378644e607531b9ac14b91037a3f50addc0a)
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](/300663/original-1646137711.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjozMDA2NjN9--fb643ac5c427e21df975fa859c8bb4de5aeaf926)
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”