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
2025
Dr. re.nat. Guanmin Li
MPI (NISE department)Guanmin defended his thesis successfully in September 2025.
Title: "Oscillatory Computational Networks based on Coupled VO2 Oscillators via Tunable Thermal Triggering"
Dr. rer. nat. Atul Pandey
MPI (NISE department)Atul defended his thesis successfully in July 2025.
Title: "Opto-electrical approach to visualize magnetic nanostructures of chiral antiferromagnets"
2024
Dr. rer. nat. Robin Neumann
MLU (Prof. Ingrid Mertig)Robin defended his thesis successfully in October 2024.
Title: "Theoretical Prediction for Probing Magnon Topology"
Dr. re. nat. Jingrong Ji
MPI (NISE department)Jingrong defended her thesis successfully in July 2024.
Title: "Molecular beam epitaxial growth and scanning tunneling microscopy characterization and manipulation of monolayers and heterostructures of two-dimensional ferroelectrics"
Dr. rer. nat. Ke Gu
MPI (NISE department)Ke defended his thesis successfully in July 2024.
Title: "Investigation of novel freestanding heterostructures"
Dr. rer. nat. 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
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
MLU (Prof. Jamal Berakdar)Björn defended his thesis successfully in November 2023.
Title: "Vortex states in superconducing/ferromagnetic hybrid systems"
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”