Education
Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany
Doctor rerum naturalium (Dr. rer. nat.) with summa cum laude, 27.8.2015
- Topic: Imaging Spin Textures on Curved Magnetic Surfaces 🔗
- Adviser: Prof. Dr. Oliver G. Schmidt, Dr. Denys Makarov
Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany 🔗
Diplom-Physiker (equivalent to M.S. in Physics, Grade: 1.2), 14.6.2011
- Topic: Strain-Mediated Coupling in Magnetoelectric Composite Materials
- Adviser: Prof. Dr. Lukas M. Eng
Federal School of Saxony Sankt Afra, Meißen, Germany 🔗
High school degree, 2006
Research Experience
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, USA 🔗
Assistant Professor, 2020 - Present
- How to harness local inversion symmetry breaking for 3D nano magnetism
- Leverage structural and chemical short-range order, curvature, and strain to tailor magnetic and magneto-transport properties of nanostructures, amorphous materials, and molecular magnets
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA 🔗
Postdoctoral researcher, 2015 - 2020
- Tailored structural and chemical disorder in amorphous thick films to stabilize chiral spin textures
- Visualized magnetization vector fields and thermal spin fluctuations with x-ray microscopy and high-resolution Lorentz microscopy with exit wave reconstruction
- Quantified spin and orbital moments with x-ray magnetic circular dichroism spectroscopy
- Explored chiral ferrimagnetism in amorphous rare-earth based multilayer films
- Investigated correlations of XY macro spins in nano disk arrays
- Developed parallelized (multi-core, GPU) data analysis software written in python
- Set up magnetooptical Kerr lab including software to control instruments
- Directed research of Peter Fischer’s group, supervising and mentoring undergraduate and graduate students
Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden, Dresden, Germany 🔗
Doctoral researcher, 2011 - 2015
- Engineered 3D magnetic curved surfaces, namely cap structures and rolled-up nano membranes with cylindrical shape
- Studied structural and magnetic properties with scanning probe, optical, electron, ion and x-ray microscopy, magnetometry, and magnetoresistance measurements
- Investigated magnetization dynamics of imprinted chiral spin textures
- Performed micromagnetic simulations, magnetic tomographic reconstruction, data analysis
- Demonstrated magnetic soft x-ray tomography based on x-ray magnetic circular dichroism at the Advanced Light Source, Berkeley Lab, and BESSY-II, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin
Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany 🔗
Graduate student researcher, 2010 - 2011
- Investigated effect of external electric fields and deposition conditions on strain in nickel/barium titanate heterostructures
- Facilitated scanning probe and Kerr microscopy to image magnetic domains and correlated results to analytical and numerical models
Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden, Dresden, Germany 🔗
Research assistant, 2011
- Investigated magnetic states in cap structures utilizing magnetic force microscopy and Kerr microscopy
Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany 🔗
Research assistant, 2009
- Developed 2D mesh generator to implement into a Discontinuous Galerkin method for numerical simulation of time evolution of optical higher harmonic waves in dispersive media
- Implementated ferroelectricity into the model
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany 🔗
Research assistant, 2008
- Tested approximation routine to determine cluster growth based on Fokker-Planck equation
Citations: >2100, h-index: 21 (Web of Science)