News from the Institute

The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) has awarded the 2025 C10 Early Career Scientist Prize to Dr. Niels Schröter, recognizing his transformative contributions to the field of condensed matter physics. Dr. Schröter, who leads the independent Max Planck Research Group at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle, has been honored for his pioneering research on chiral semimetals and their novel fermionic quasiparticles, which hold promise for future technologies such as memory devices. more

IMPRS PhD student Simon Arnold will begin a three-month research exchange in March to establish and strengthen collaboration between the NISE department at the Max Planck Institute, led by Prof. Stuart Parkin, and the Orchestrating Physics for Unconventional Systems (OPUS) laboratory at the University of Santa Barbara in California, led by Prof. Kerem Camsari. more

Woltersdorf will head the "Magnetic Microscopy and Spin Dynamics" Fellow Group at the Max Planck Institute until the end of 2029. The research aims to create the basis for future applications in information storage and processing. more

With twelve Synergy Grants, the Max Planck Society claims top spot in the ERC ranking more

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle receive the prestigious Synergy Grant of the European Research Council to work jointly on 2DPolymembrane. more